I mean, here's a real series of attacks on Christianity — or at least, on Christian churches and communities. Sure, it's not some thing fun and popular and fund-raising like standing up to those horrible Gays who want to get married, or denouncing That Muslim in the White House … but we have right here Christian churches being burned. If Huck could show up for Kim Davis getting out of the pokey, surely he can swing by some black churches being torched in Missouri, right?
If not, hey, plenty of room for Jeb! and Jindal and Carson (and Beck and Robertson and Fischer) to get in on the action. What say, guys? Anyone going to put together a national fund raiser for these folk?
(Note: I have no doubt that the folk mentioned above, to the extent they've heard about this, are all unhappy that this has happened, like any decent human beings would be. The question is, are some actual Christians who have been hurt in some sort of concerted attack going to be worth some of these pols and pundits' precious moments of media time and business travel? And, if so, what's the message they will send out about it?)
Let’s See What Conservatives Have to Say About a Real War on Christianity
The burning of black churches near Ferguson is an actual issue, unlike “Happy Holidays” signs.
As we all know, though, these aren't in any way part of a war on Christianity but a war on black people.
The real "war on Christianity" is being carried out every day by megachurches, Republican politicians, and the rank (they're definitely rank) and file of right-wing hate-filled bigots who call themselves Christian.
+Karin Curran As a Christian, it's difficult for me to see an attack on Christian churches — even if for reasons not explicitly related to Christianity — as not being an attack on Christianity. That it's altogether likely that the perpetrators consider themselves good Christians makes it only the more ironic.
Which leads me to think, though I won't call the other things you mention attacks per se (at least not intentional ones), I would agree that they are (ironically) weakening Christianity as an institution in the modern world.
+Dave Hill If a group of Indian Muslims committed several attacks on mosques that were nearly entirely attended by Pakistani Muslims, would you call that a war on Islam?
+Karin Curran Hmmm. I would, insofar as they represented an attack on Muslims, an attack on a Muslim community and gatering place, and an attack on the unity of the faith.
Clearly, other factors are involved (or even predominate) as well — as with these church burnings.
#LookingForHuckabee needs to trend. Nope, not under the credenza…
+Dave Hill Interesting. I cannot get my head around how either situation is an attack on the religion rather than an attack of one ethnicity / nationality on the other. But we can differ on that. ☺
+Karin Curran I wouldn't say rather than, but in addition to.
Bear in mind that this is driven by Charles Pierce's tongue-in-cheek article, suggesting that if it's not about race (since the Right has been so quick to deny that there is racism in this country and that anyone who plays the race card is clearly just stirring up trouble), it must be about religion.