War against Christianity?
I was inspired by Lawrence Auster's post here-- http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/007090.html
I find this book list rather compelling. A few of those titles mention "the right" so it may seem that the attack directed more towards the abuses of some people who happen to be Christians.
There is more to it than that. The qualifier "the right" is only there to soften the blow somewhat. Actually, a better way to put it is that the qualifiers like "right" "Republican" etc. are a type of Pavlovian conditioned stimulus that train people to think that all "Christians" are "radical rightist evil Nazis". This crap has been done to Catholics too--is there any secular source that fails to mention the Catholic Church without a mention of the Inquisition, Crusades, Galileo and the American child abuse scandal?
(Note to the reader: I am no liberal or leftist, but for the sake of argument I will assume that "rightism"= "evil". How it came to this in the mainstream setting is the subject of another post).
As long as evil deeds are conflated with Christianity, people will soon make the (erroneous) connection that Christianity is in error. That may either mean that Christianity must be reformed or destroyed. But I doubt that the people who talk about "those dirty Christians" wish to reform Chrisitanity. Many of the people who write and read these books are not only atheists but atheists with a profound hatred of Christianity (not just "religion") or completely irrational and overly emotional dweebs like Sam Harris (redundancy alert). They do not just want to remove a few bad apples, they want to chop off the whole tree.
Actually, "reforming" Christianity can go some ways toward destroying it as well. Well-meaning Christians who do not want to look bad to the people who are criticizing them may go along with what they are saying and "reform" Christianity until it is nothing but a hollow shell like the Anglican Church. (If this happened eighteen centuries ago, Europe may still be pagan).
There is one more thing. Generalized attacks against Christianity by people who are more popular and influential are getting more vicious than ever and more public as well. What madness does Dawkins have to go against the ancient practice of parenting so that children won't become Christians? This is just but one example.
What upsets me is that there is little outrage. There are some like me and Mr. Auster who write against this but I am sure that the mainstream media would ignore it, set up such complaints as strawmen, show brief, out-of-context bits and pieces of dissent or air only opportunistic sound bytes from someone hated by the Left like Pat Robertson. I am sure there would be more people in more places who would speak against this war against Christianity but would not like to speak out too loud for reasons I have already mentioned. That there is little outrage is shows me that the secular war against Christianity is going against us.
The war is real. The abolition of the "Merry Christmas" and other acts are only small bits of the larger reality. I wonder what the future will look like.
I find this book list rather compelling. A few of those titles mention "the right" so it may seem that the attack directed more towards the abuses of some people who happen to be Christians.
There is more to it than that. The qualifier "the right" is only there to soften the blow somewhat. Actually, a better way to put it is that the qualifiers like "right" "Republican" etc. are a type of Pavlovian conditioned stimulus that train people to think that all "Christians" are "radical rightist evil Nazis". This crap has been done to Catholics too--is there any secular source that fails to mention the Catholic Church without a mention of the Inquisition, Crusades, Galileo and the American child abuse scandal?
(Note to the reader: I am no liberal or leftist, but for the sake of argument I will assume that "rightism"= "evil". How it came to this in the mainstream setting is the subject of another post).
As long as evil deeds are conflated with Christianity, people will soon make the (erroneous) connection that Christianity is in error. That may either mean that Christianity must be reformed or destroyed. But I doubt that the people who talk about "those dirty Christians" wish to reform Chrisitanity. Many of the people who write and read these books are not only atheists but atheists with a profound hatred of Christianity (not just "religion") or completely irrational and overly emotional dweebs like Sam Harris (redundancy alert). They do not just want to remove a few bad apples, they want to chop off the whole tree.
Actually, "reforming" Christianity can go some ways toward destroying it as well. Well-meaning Christians who do not want to look bad to the people who are criticizing them may go along with what they are saying and "reform" Christianity until it is nothing but a hollow shell like the Anglican Church. (If this happened eighteen centuries ago, Europe may still be pagan).
There is one more thing. Generalized attacks against Christianity by people who are more popular and influential are getting more vicious than ever and more public as well. What madness does Dawkins have to go against the ancient practice of parenting so that children won't become Christians? This is just but one example.
What upsets me is that there is little outrage. There are some like me and Mr. Auster who write against this but I am sure that the mainstream media would ignore it, set up such complaints as strawmen, show brief, out-of-context bits and pieces of dissent or air only opportunistic sound bytes from someone hated by the Left like Pat Robertson. I am sure there would be more people in more places who would speak against this war against Christianity but would not like to speak out too loud for reasons I have already mentioned. That there is little outrage is shows me that the secular war against Christianity is going against us.
The war is real. The abolition of the "Merry Christmas" and other acts are only small bits of the larger reality. I wonder what the future will look like.
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