It’s the lack of silence that offends
Jerry Marszalek, a football coach in Michigan, has lost his job after allowing an assistant to pester Muslim students into becoming Christians. As you can expect, the professional Christian set is not happy about the development and have decided to spin it as yet another act of persecution – against Christians.
According to an article on the Christian Newswire condemning the “persecution”, Christian persecution in America has taken on several forms. One of these forms is “a rising intolerance for proselytising”.
In recent years, Christian persecution has taken on a variety of forms in the United States—from a rising intolerance for proselytising to the eradication of nearly all historical Christian references in public school textbooks.
Yes, you read that right. You are not allowed to tell a Christian recruiter to leave you alone. If you do so, you are persecuting that Christian. They have a god given right to annoy and it’s your job to sit in gracious silence when they start prattling on about the Jebus.
So the next time you hear one whining about big bad atheists being oh so mean to them, remember that they think that anything but complete silence is persecution.
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I have never been foolish enough to believe in something which obviously doesnt exist with the exception of make believe characters that my parents assure me were real, even then at the grand old age of 6 I was able to evaluate the evidence and come to the conclusion they were ‘making s**t up’. What annoys me most about religous groups is their belief that they have the right to pick and choose which parts of the lie to force upon people who are wiser than them. America was apparently born from ‘religous freedom’ if only that meant free from religon rather than the alternative. I have no problem with people believing in anything they want (1 legged pirate space penguins, spaghetti monsters, the tooth fairy, Allah, God etc) as long as they do not have the power to affect my life. Where I live if people talk to imaginary people and act in a way detrimental to society, we look after them in a ‘special hotel’. Sometimes psychiatric care is the only answer. Why is it that the top echelons of most (not all) religons, mainly Christian and muslim, are so wealthy. Why do people still study the Bible, surely after thousands of years they understand it now? Or do they study it so they can answer all the questions asked by people questioning their faith, mis-quoting the bible, only taking what they want or need and ignoring the rest. Their is no God!!! these words appear in many Holy books (are the books holy because of the holes in them?). Should we be allowed to point this out to christians, apparently not. Muslims say those words daily, they just add a few extra words on at the end. I am not anti-religon I just dont want it controling my life, I like the seperation of church and state. One other thing bothers me, America please don’t think I am critisizing you. ”we are all created in Gods image” When someone has ANY cosmetic surgery, including teeth, isn’t that sticking 2 fingers up at God and saying, you screwed up, don’t worry though God, mankind will rectify your mistakes, I only mention this because of the huge number of American religous leaders that have brilliant white, straight teeth and their hair colour has not changed since they were 21. Odd methinks!