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(July 28, 2015 at 4:10 pm)TRJF Wrote: Question not addressed to me, but I'll answer.
1) What the hell is a member of pop culture? (Maybe this was defined earlier in the thread, but I just skimmed.)
see my last post.
Quote:2) To respond to this question: do you honestly believe it is easier to be a Christian, than [a non-Christian]? Answer: it depends.
But, the real question:
on what?
Quote:3) Do you honestly believe it is easier to be a Christian [in the United States], than [a non-Christian in the United States]?
Being Christ despite circumstance is hard no matter what. It is so much easier to just give up and adopt some sort of bastardized morality and justify whatever you want so long as no one get hurt.
Quote:Yes. Unequivocally, yes. You have free reign to practice your religion
To have a pastor perform a ceremony that is against his deeply held legitmate religious views is not freedom to practice religion sport, that is a state mandated religious practice. Something our bill'o rights says we do not have to do, but popular culture says we must.
Quote: you're the large majority, AND you get the psychological comfort of "knowing" there's someone watching out for you, and that dying isn't really the end, and that you're important and the universe was created for you (rather than having to come up with your own meaning as an insignificant part of a cold, uncaring universe), and that the consequences of things on earth aren't really that great, because the end goal is so much bigger than this.
If this were true we would not be killing unborn babies, sanctioning gay marriages, and removing God from every aspect of public life, nor would the state mandate our religious practices.
Quote:Everyone, Christian or not, American or not, has their own problems. But, as far as we go: yes, it is much, much easier to be a Christian in America than not.
Where do you live? maybe we should trade homes.
There are two boys lost off the coast of Florida and a radio deejay who announced this news story ended, 'our prayers are with you.' I cringed because he said this on a non Christian station. The very next break he had to appologise for expressing his religious views on company air time and made a disclaimer statement that his company did not endorse his 'prayer.'
what kind of world do we live in, where we can not offer prayer to two 14 year olds lost at sea? More over if we live in a majority Christian country then why do we have to go about daily life as if we were stepping on egg shells all the time?
If you went to china, do you think they would keep their deeply held religious/cultural views out of the public eye so as to not offend some douche bag minority? Then why do we do it here unless those numbers are not repersentivite of who and what the majority of this country really is.
Take another look at the article at your link. It is regarding "wedding chapels," not churches. Wedding chapels are basically businesses which marry people. Businesses are not allowed to discriminate. Churches are.
