(June 28, 2017 at 8:03 pm)bennyboy Wrote:(June 28, 2017 at 7:56 pm)ManofYesterday Wrote: There's a danger in assuming that nobody is gunning for Christians because when people do discriminate against Christians, people laugh at or don't believe it. It's the same thing with whites, especially white men, especially white straight men. People can say and do whatever they want towards white straight men because many people assume they are given everything and on top of everyone. Women can be sexist towards men and blacks can be racist towards whites and nobody cares.
I'm sure there are plenty of people who discriminate against Christians, but for cultural appropriation, I think you have to be stealing cultural icons and ideas with the intent of taking them out of the hands of the oppressed population.
I'm not saying that I care, but I can definitely see that arguments against dream catchers and crosses aren't an exact parallel.
I think in the end, the best would be to mock anyone who thinks either dream catchers OR crosses matter. We hold the opinion that neither is anything more than the expression of superstitious nonsense, and that superstitious nonsense isn't particularly worth protecting, no matter to whom it belongs, right?
I admit I don't ever frequent a local restaurant that I realize has the Christian Rock channel for their muzak. (yet I do subscribe to Sirius/XM which carries it)
I've never set foot in a Chik-fil-A or a Cracker Barrel, and I never will.
But if the local church ladies need a light bulb changed (not the RLDS, Baptists, or Church of Christ, BTW) and I get a church lady pie, I'm there doing it.
IOWs, it's complex situation.
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.