Have you ever noticed that a liberal will readily attack Christians but never other religions?

Question

Why is that libs?

Answer 1

Yeah, I've often wondered that. Like how come that school in California is allowing Muslim children 15 minutes a day to pray to Allah and no one from the ACLU is fumeing. Yet, the ACLU fought to take "One Nation Under God" out of the Pledge of Allegiance. Guess that just proves the ACLU isn't against religion, just Christianity.

Answer 2

Because christianity is the dominant religion in the western hemisphere, so christianity is the religion that is heard from most often. The sheer frequency of nonsensical delusions require far more frequent rational responses.

If it is any help, I consider all religions fundamentally similar, and I am equally contemptuous of them all. The difference between them is mere details of ceremony. However, christians cause me the most annoyance because they are most prevalent delusional idiots with imaginary friends around me.

At the core, all religions are superstitions and precisely the same. They arise because of two basic fears: Fear of Death and Fear of the Answer "I Don't Know."

I don't need religion because I'm not afraid of death. Don't get me wrong, I'm afraid of DYING, but I am not worried about the fact that death is the end. I don't require that my grandmother await me in a cloud city with a plate of oatmeal cookies or that some other "reward" is offered for droning out the right words every Sunday. I'm certainly not worried about some fancifully sadistic eternal punishment because I didn't believe that the Jeebus man died on a cross (but not really) or because I didn't wear a little hat. We all die. That is it.

I don't need religion because it doesn't bother me that the "big questions" probably won't be entirely answered in my lifetime and, in fact, probably aren't legitimate questions at all. The intermediate answers on the way to the so-called ultimate answers are marvelous and fascinating enough for me. Why am I here? Because my parents had sex. What is the meaning of life? It doesn't have a universal answer other than species survival (and, of course, who's buying this round?).

Answer 3

I am part Christian so why would I want to attack my own religion...I have never attacked Christianity...but I do believe everyone should have the right to practice their own religion without the interference of another. Christian Fundementalists seem to want to spread Christianity throughout the U.S. even though this is a diverse country that can have many religions without another religion imposing. What is wrong with saying that?

Answer 4

Speaking for myself...
I respect others' religious beliefs (ALL religious beliefs). I think it's in poor taste for one to use their religion for political gain, and reprehensible to imply that their religion gives them a "monopoly on morality". If a Christian (or Muslim, or Jewish) candidate has intelligence, integrity and proposes solutions that make sense for the issues that concern me, I would vote for that person.

I don't dislike Christians, I dislike candidates who 'run on religion' as if it were "proof" of their morality, values and integrity. It is not! I don't dislike Christianity, I dislike the 'Separation of Church and State' doctrine being disregarded and Christianity used to legislate morality and impose restrictions on individual rights (i.e., marriage, pro-choice, stem cell research and abstinence-only health programs).

BTW... I'm a Libertarian which, simply put, means that I'm liberal (pro-individual rights) on social issues and conservative (pro-free market) on economic issues. As for religion, I suppose I'm an Agnostic by default because I just can't see how any one religion can claim that it is better and all others are somehow 'lesser'. If that's what it takes to join the 'religious bandwagon'... No thanks, I'll just walk!

Answer 5

Well, I'm not a liberal, but this one's easy. Christians are in the majority in this country. Because they are the majority they feel they deserve special consideration when it comes to prayer in schools, abortion rights, who has the right to get married in this country, censorship, etc.

But all Christians do not act or think like this. The sector that gets attacked in reality are the fundamentalist Christians. They are currently the only religious group who continually tries to insert their religious mores into laws people of every religion have to adhere to. They tried to add discrimination to our Constitution for crying out loud. There are a lot of people in this country who are tired of the fundamentalist Christians proselytizing to the whole country and demanding we recognize their particular morals as the guideposts for us all. Not to mention they have given a bad name to Christians in general - and most of the real Christians in this country don't deserve it and are tired of it to boot. It isn't just liberals who are tired of these watchdog groups like the Family Research Council, who preaches hate couched in soft words against those who aren't like them.

Answer 6

Simple: Liberalism IS their religion. Christianity is the competition.

Answer 7

"readily attack"?...try, be cynical about. perhaps because it's the one religion a majority of Americans are familiar with. it's difficult to criticize what you have no knowledge of. (at least for a person who thinks)

Answer 8

That's because only Christians stomp around screaming and yelling at everybody else who doesn't follow their Man.

Christians and Muslims.....both are radical religions.

Most other religious people practice their faith where it belongs....the church and the home...and they don't try to FORCE their beliefs on other.

Answer 9

Wrong I attack all religions equally but heck that's just the athiest in me
Allah=Turd
Jesus= Cool dude but not the Messiah
Budda= again cool dude but not the lord
Most religious figures good people
Religion itself well more people have died for it or from it than any other cause so thanks but a no thanks

Answer 10

I am a Christian so I criticize those of my own faith; I am of German heritage so I make German jokes but no Polish or Italian jokes. It is called courtesy.