After the local public school board lost its case yesterday regarding a big prayer mural at a high school, some fine, upstanding, devout Christian students expressed their tolerance, Christ-like forgiveness, and other-cheek-turningness through their calm, considered, prayerful use of social media, discussing the teen atheist who filed the law suit over the mural.
If Jesus is weeping, it's not over the mural, I'm pretty certain of that. Heck, I'm ready to join Him. #ddtb
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I am not a Christian…but 99% of the people I know are. In my experience this kind of thing is more like "I want to be in your club!" kind of thing than anything. On my FB page someone can say something equally ignorant and everyone will jump in with "amens" and agreements…and then something will be said the very next day that is the opposite and the same people will be saying "amen!" and "I hear ya!" and all that.
Let's ALL jump on the hate bandwagon! /sarcasm
Dave, I would hope you realize that Christianity has it's loons just like….let's say, for example….Islam. These days we're all just supposed to go along with the notion that Islam is all about peace and love…and it very well may be, but they have their 'extremists'…as does Christianity.
People are so quick to rush to Islam's defense and say that the whackos 'don't represent the religion'…well, guess what…these type of folks aren't representative of the Christian religion, either. The people spewing this hate may call themselves "Christians", but they're nothing of the sort.
Of course, the atheists are too busy trying to tear down something they don't even believe in, to see this point.
Mark, I'm a Christian, so I certainly recognize that not all Christians are like the above, or that even (in my experience) most Christians aren't. Christianity — and Islam, and Judaism, and political ideologies and national identities, and ethnic categories, and any other way of grouping people, too often turns into simple tribalism, Us vs Them, regardless of the philosophy or beliefs or "best" of what the grouping supposedly stands for.
It still behooves Christians, when they come across this behavior, to point out in strong (if, somehow, loving, a part I struggle with) fashion that it is emphatically not a Christ-like thing to do.
Yup. Tribalism. And self-righteous tribalism at that. Which I also consider antithetical to Christ's message.
Exactly.
I wouldn’t say that atheists are trying to “tear down” anything. We’re trying to avoid having it forced on us, especially when it violates the Constitution, which guarantees separation of church and state. We do not want public schools endorsing one religion just because the majority of the population favors it.
@Avo – Well, see, you’re trying to tear down Christians’ God-given right to force their religion on you — you intolerant atheist you!