Is America sick and tired of the CR's persecution complex?
"To any member of the armed services who is harassed,
demeaned, reprimanded or charged by this Obama Pentagon with obeying Jesus --
with endeavoring to 'recruit or convert' others to His exclusive saving grace --
we at Liberty Counsel are delighted to say, 'We've Got your back!' Pro bono.
Free of charge. How are we able to do this? Through the generous financial and
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So please, get this information to every member of the armed forces you know.
If you (or they) are being persecuted in any way, at any time for sharing the
love of Christ, let us know."
- Hate group leader Matt Barber , continuing to flog a completely debunked story. ( Joe.My.God )
In a land where every hamlet claims three
church spires, the myth of persecution is more overworked than any conspiracy
theory. The above exhortation is in response to a group of stories that
fearmongered people into thinking that Christian soldiers could
be court-martialed for their faith . It is the latest attempt to
enlarge Christian-Americans' persecution complex.
Unfortunately, it won't be the last.
Matt
Barber of Liberty Counsel:
"...because as they persecute Christians and conservatives
and other who have traditional values within the ranks of the armed services,
it leaves a vacuum; nature abhors a vacuum and the kind of people that are
going to fill that vacuum aren't the kind of people that we want defending our
country, quite frankly"
From People
for the American Way :
"PFAW's Right Wing Watch released an In
Focus report in the first
weeks of the Obama administration in 2009 about the Right's use of a "big lie"
strategy about a war on Christians to stoke the base's false fears of religious
persecution. We are seeing every day in our Right
Wing tracking that the
playbook we identified remains in constant use.
Whether it's Christians-to-the-lions or
court-martialing, the methods of persecution over the millenia have varied, but
the psyche of the "persecuted" Christian has stayed the same:
The Early Myth of Persecution
"The myth of Christian martyrdom is not only inaccurate; it has
contributed to great violence and continues to support a view of the world in
which we are under attack from our fellow human beings,"
In her book, The
Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented The Story of Martyrdom,
Candida Moss questions not only the extent of early Christian martyrdom, but
the purpose: it has long been posited by historians that many early Christians
sought out martyrdom as an easy means to heaven (attaining the "martyr's
crown"). Martyrdom, it seems, was acceptable suicide. Moss - a professor
of New Testament and Early Christianity at Notre Dame University - also guesses
the length of official persecution by Rome as only twelve years in the early
Church's first three hundred years.
In other words, lions didn't really have as much gainful employment as most
people think.
(wikipedia):
The idea that Christians have always been persecuted by the powers
of evil, and always will be, leads to a combative and aggressive attitude by
Christians even today, according to Moss, in debates over such issues as
abortion and same sex marriage.
The Homosexual Lobby - The Latest In
Persecution
For a movement that is only forty years old, the LGBT community's call for
rights has given the Christian Right epic nightmares: tolerance has never been
its strong point and any criticism of its dogma (versions of what it means to
be "Christian") is viewed as sinful persecution. Gays and lesbians
are depicted as vengeful and duplicitous:
Faith 2 Action's Janet Porter has been releasing clips of her film
which warns that gays and lesbians are out to criminalize Christianity and no
different than adulterers.
Rick
Scarborough on the
possibility of SCOTUS legalizing gay marriage:
The very first thing Obama did when he got elected president was
pass hate crimes legislation inclusive of sexual orientation. The laws are now
on the books to prosecute preachers who have the audacity to say in public what
I just said from their pulpits.
You will find them armed with this Supreme Court ruling, if its adverse, then
rounding up anyone who says otherwise and prosecuting, perhaps with fines at
first but finally with jail and imprisonment. And the laws are now, at least
the foundation of laws through hate crimes legislation is in place to bring
fill-scale persecution on those of us who stand for truth.
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