The head of the Catholic League in NYC this morning, in an interview with Fox News, compared the plight of Christians in America to blacks in South Africa under apartheid.
Background: several generations of Lutheran pastors/missionaries; my mom is about to be the latest; ELCA, those are the liberal Lutherans, mainstream
What I think: [Christians] seem to feel as though they are a minority, and being persecuted, and having their freedoms/rights taken away.
Minority, yes. But otherwise? Christians are much better off than Muslims. We aren't automatically considered terrorists! (Tangent: I think we have a moral obligation to help Muslims. That whole freedom of religion thing...) Christians don't have to "specially register", etc. And I've certainly been hearing a lot of horror stories lately.
Everyone has had their freedoms taken away recently. Yay Patriot Act.
It is somewhat disconcerting to get the reaction I do when I tell people that I'm Lutheran. In SF, the dominant religion is probably paganism. Which makes me very much the odd one out. Now I could hide it, but...
Weekends. Working on religious days. What annoys me is that I can't figure out how to get out of working on them. I don't think I can tell a prospective employer "I don't work on Sundays" and not be pressured into breaking it. I can't even figure out how to tell my current employer that I want to get to work an hour later so I can make it to all of the late service! (But then I don't work many hours, and I do kind of need them...) But I know that he'd make fun of me for taking my religion seriously. Since he was raised Lutheran too, I think it disturbs him somehow.
her children were told they could not wear Christian oriented t-shirts to school.
This would offend me. I would be protesting to the school. I doubt it would hold up in a USA court. (I would hope not!)
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What I think:
[Christians] seem to feel as though they are a minority, and being persecuted, and having their freedoms/rights taken away.
Minority, yes. But otherwise? Christians are much better off than Muslims. We aren't automatically considered terrorists! (Tangent: I think we have a moral obligation to help Muslims. That whole freedom of religion thing...) Christians don't have to "specially register", etc. And I've certainly been hearing a lot of horror stories lately.
Everyone has had their freedoms taken away recently. Yay Patriot Act.
It is somewhat disconcerting to get the reaction I do when I tell people that I'm Lutheran. In SF, the dominant religion is probably paganism. Which makes me very much the odd one out. Now I could hide it, but...
Weekends. Working on religious days. What annoys me is that I can't figure out how to get out of working on them. I don't think I can tell a prospective employer "I don't work on Sundays" and not be pressured into breaking it. I can't even figure out how to tell my current employer that I want to get to work an hour later so I can make it to all of the late service! (But then I don't work many hours, and I do kind of need them...) But I know that he'd make fun of me for taking my religion seriously. Since he was raised Lutheran too, I think it disturbs him somehow.
her children were told they could not wear Christian oriented t-shirts to school.
This would offend me. I would be protesting to the school. I doubt it would hold up in a USA court. (I would hope not!)