christian bashing in america?
Henry Neufeld has a good post titled What Can We Christians be Thinking? in which he discusses, among other things, a list of the Top Ten Instances of Christian Bashing in America drawn up by some organization that calls itself the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission (CADC).
More than half the items on the list are simply examples of people exercising their right to freedom of speech or freedom of expression, voicing their disagreement with one aspect or another of some form of Christianity.
Ironically, while one of the items is the criticism Sarah Palin received for identifying as a Christian, another item is Barack Obama's identification as a Christian. The CADC claims its research shows otherwise.
So, for those keeping score at home: If the CADC criticizes someone for identifying as a Christian, it's research. If someone else does it, it's bashing. I'm glad we could clear that up.
For a more thoughtful response to the CADC's list, and to other recent examples of Christian lunacy, see Henry's post.
Labels: current events, faith and culture, persecution
posted by BruceA @ 10:54 PM
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Thanks for the link. You underlined the one part that had me scratching my head the most.
I have to believe that they are so arrogantly certain that only their type of Christians are actually Christians that there's no contradiction or even irony in their perception.
On the other hand, when such groups try to make the point of how "Christian" America is, they have no problem including groups like United Methodists, Episcopalians, or United Church of Christ in the mix. That's because the statistics would look pretty dismal if you only included TRUE CHRISTIANS (tm) in the mix.
We're good enough to be "statistical Christians" just not "real Christians."
Ah ha!
If the CADC criticizes someone for identifying as a Christian, it's research. If someone else does it, it's bashing. I'm glad we could clear that up.
So you were the one who left this highly poignant comment over on DA! I loved it.
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