Are politicians and people against Christian rights?

Question

This is just a thought I had, since christian's are having their rights taken away left and right, things like
saying God's name in schools
telling people about what we believe
talking about creation (our belief) in certain settings
hanging the ten commandments in our place of work
ECT.

If these things are being pushed, along with people TARGETING christians to have "RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE"
and such, when they don't tell muslims or anyone else to have religious tolerance (as much)...

All this considered, do you think people are against christians rights?

Again, just a thought...

Thanks

What I am talking about, is the right to our beliefs.

I would want my childs teacher to either teach the religion I believe, EVERY SINGLE RELIGION WITHOUT BIAS, OR
to not teach religion AT ALL meaning no talk of ORIGINS, because none of us were there and we cannot know for a fact.

So, they should teach EVERY RELIGION WITHOUT BIAS
or
No religion at all, so they won't upset any religion.

Answer 1

You mean, are they against Xians taking away everyone elses's rights (which they are trying to do right and left)

things like

forbidding certain people to get married
letting people live according to how they believe
talking about evolution in certain settings
trying to make people pray to JC in schools

all these things are pushed, along with tons of other things, along with people targeting anyone not Xian with saying "you're taking away our Xian rights to dictate how you live!!"
and such, why don't they tell those Xians to have some religious tolerance, for once. All this considered, are politicians trying to preserve the rights of everyone in the country, and not just the WASPS?

Just a thought.

Answer 2

Jess, if I came over to your house and started drinkning and smoking regardless of what you and your family thought, I'd be an intruder. If you threw me out, you would be well within your rights, no matter how much I pretended that my rights were being violated.

It's the same thing: all of us, Christian or not, share secular society and government.

Not getting to do what you want in everybody else's space (let alone somebody else's) is not the same as losing rights. If Muslims were attempting to intrude into public space the way some Christians do, you'd see a similar reaction.

Christians can still teach Creationism in their churches, but it does not belong in puvblic schools. If you teach Christian doctrine, then out of fairness you are obligated to teach Muslim, Hindu, pagan and every other path as well. Even Satanism.

Pretending that Christian rights are under threat only distances decent and reasonable people from taking Christians seriously.

Answer 3

Your question is hard to answer, because you don't specify a country, and the examples you give are (in the United States) often brought up as proof of "oppression" of Christians when they are in fact either fabrications or misunderstandings about the nature of US law. (For example, public school teachers cannot endorse any religion while teaching. Christian students are generally not forbidden from praying or sharing their beliefs - the restrictions come when they cross the line from "sharing beliefs" to "actively harassing other students," as they do for any other student group. There are certainly instances of paranoid school officials restricting things they ought not, but groups like the ACLU and several others generally step in and defend the rights of the students. And I've certainly never heard of someone in a public school getting in trouble for simply _saying_ "YWH.")

Are there countries where Christians are, as a group, oppressed? Yes.

Is the United States one of them? Not by a longshot. At least 70% of the country identifies as Christian, and an even higher percentage of lawmakers identify as Christian. (There is only one atheist in Congress, and he is in fact a Unitarian Universalist.) The Republican party, which controlled Congress and the Executive branch of the government for six years, has spent much of that time bowing to the interests of conservative Christian groups.

Answer 4

It is the very nature of the world to stand against God and His followers.
At the moment, the persecution Christians experience in America is very, very minor; but it is getting worse and will some day be as bad as any where else in the world.
The dialog here on R&S is an example. Tens years ago, it would have been extremely rare to see what many of these heathens post so causally and to a point, at the moment most of these people who say such loathsome things here DON'T have the nerve to say the same thing in public. But, give it time and they will.

Answer 5

sadly I think christians have been forcing their religion on to people for so long and they are tired of it. If god is to be taught /allowed in the schools so should every belief system be allowed. Religious tolerance is the only chance of getting back to father.

Answer 6

Well its the separation of Church and State. Christian morals pretty much run the country from Abortion to Gay Rights.

If anything it overpowers all the other religions.

While Christmas and Easter are holidays all over the world, I have never seen any vacation for people who celebrate the Winter/Summer Solstices.

Answer 7

Ah, the poor Christian victims. Having your rights taken away! People won't say God in public places!

Except, say, the President, who ends every speech with "God Bless America." And then there's the taxpayer money funding faith-based charities and schools.

Your rights to practice your religion are inviolate, and I would fight to the death to protect them. But keep your religion the HELL out of my government.

Answer 8

I don't see what this question has to do with rights. You do not have the right to muddle my kids' brains with silly Creationist tales or prayers, nor to erect plaques and such devoted to your particular religion's nonsense on public property. If anything, we've all been putting up with too much crap from Christians for far too long and it's high time you were reined in.

Answer 9

No, Christians are not losing their rights.

They're simply being put even-keel on level with everyone else.

How would you feel if your son or daughter's teacher decided to explain that Isis, Horus, and Ra were the true Gods and that Yahweh was just a big hoax?

Now imagine that you were a Khemetic follower, and your son or daughter's teacher decided to explain that Yahweh was true but Jesus was false as was Horus, Isis, and Ra.

How would you feel if you went to a City Council meeting to protest a proposed ordinance and the meeting started off with an invocation to Jupiter, the Bringer of Law?

How would you feel if you went to court to testify, and they asked you to swear on a copy of the Bagavhad Gita, and when you declined, no one on the jury would give your words any credence and in fact would consider you by default an unreliable source?

You have two choices:

1.) No religion at all

2.) Every religion given equal time.

You tell me which one you want your children's teacher (who may or may not be Christian) to hold to as an ideal.

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Teachers do not teach religion.

They teach science.

Science has answers, based on available evidence, for the origins of the Universe, for Earth, for Life, and for Humans.

If your religion disagrees with science, then take your kids out of public school and send them to a parochial school.

You cannot teach an understanding of physics without the Big Bang nor biology without Evolution. These are far too core and critical to those fields.

Without the Big Bang, all physics falls apart. Without evolution, biology falls apart.

To NOT teach these, would be unscientific and thus itself be an establishment of religion.

Answer 10

hi. I agree that marriage is a sacred union between male and lady in basic terms, interior God's kingdom, and His rules. Civil regulation is a different remember all jointly. They hardly coincide with God's rules. gay and Christian are on a similar time unique words, as Jesus says in case you like me you will save my commandments, and if a individual says they love Him and don't save his commandments, they're a liar and if reality be stated no longer in them. So if gays desire a civil union, enable 'em. There could be NO Church sanctioned gay marriage, however. As we are all ok conscious, in united states of america we've a ingredient noted as separation of Church and State. If civil regulation needs to allow the union of gays and lesbians, so what? It has no longer something to do with faith or the Church...it has to do with a morally bankrupt international and a corrupt government. Our usa has rules allowing all forms of rubbish, so why could this be any different? How corrupt replaced into Roman government for the period of the time of Christ? He reported to obey the guidelines of the land, and save your eyes in the direction of heaven. Jesus additionally reported on a similar time as we are interior the international to no longer be OF the international. If all of us did that, nicely, we would not difficulty ourselves particularly plenty with problems with this international... so a techniques as gay adoption is going, nicely, i'm against it, yet lower back, none individuals can % our mothers and fathers, no remember if or no longer they are "stable" [or no longer], no remember if or no longer they are Christian [or no longer], no remember if or no longer they are abusive [or no longer]. Heterosexual atheists can and do have infants, and carry them with their humanistic perception device. we can't settle on who has infants and who would not, merely using fact we don't believe them (a minimum of no longer in united states of america). as quickly as we are adults, we could % how we can stay our lives and no remember if or to no longer settle for Christ, no remember how we've been raised or who raised us.