I exercised some serious patience tonight...
Someone sent my mother this article on facebook, and she regurgitated it when I went over for Saturday dinner. It's Gene Simmons talking about Tim Tebow.
I normally refuse to enter into these discussions with my mother. She is absolutely incapable of having a rational conversation about anything. She will make a ridiculous statement, completely and disrespectfully discount my response, then say "we'll have to agree to disagree."
Tonight, I had to say something. First off, I watch a lot of ESPN, NFL Network, etc. I know American Football. I have never seen anyone on these channels say anything bad about his religion. They wouldn't have a job if they did. They are consistent about one thing: the man is a terrible quarterback. He got a chance on three teams, he is clearly not an NFL caliber quarterback. But this isn't the point. There's this ridiculous notion of the oppressed majority. My normally silent father said "there has been some persecution in this country." He said that! Religious persecution! Against Christians! In America! I couldn't keep it in. I very calmly said that Christians are responsible for so much persecution, that to act like they are being persecution is insulting. The idea that we should embrace everyone even tips off their persecution meter. My mother even talked about the whole "war on religion" that Fox News propagates when people insist on saying Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas.
Christians, I have news for you. It is not oppression just because you don't get to do whatever you want in the name of your god. It makes me so damned angry when Christians act like victims whenever someone stands up for themselves in spite of a religious nut. Like it is unthinkable that you would deny a Christian the ability to affect your life.
I went home after dinner. I usually stay a while. I am very angry.
Someone sent my mother this article on facebook, and she regurgitated it when I went over for Saturday dinner. It's Gene Simmons talking about Tim Tebow.
Quote:”He’s proud to be a Christian, what’s wrong with that? And yet, with sports media and pop culture media, they make fun of his religion. Really? In America? If he was wearing a burqa, they wouldn’t dare say anything [editor's note: only Muslim women wear burqas]. But if you’re a Christian, you get to be picked on? What the hell?
I normally refuse to enter into these discussions with my mother. She is absolutely incapable of having a rational conversation about anything. She will make a ridiculous statement, completely and disrespectfully discount my response, then say "we'll have to agree to disagree."
Tonight, I had to say something. First off, I watch a lot of ESPN, NFL Network, etc. I know American Football. I have never seen anyone on these channels say anything bad about his religion. They wouldn't have a job if they did. They are consistent about one thing: the man is a terrible quarterback. He got a chance on three teams, he is clearly not an NFL caliber quarterback. But this isn't the point. There's this ridiculous notion of the oppressed majority. My normally silent father said "there has been some persecution in this country." He said that! Religious persecution! Against Christians! In America! I couldn't keep it in. I very calmly said that Christians are responsible for so much persecution, that to act like they are being persecution is insulting. The idea that we should embrace everyone even tips off their persecution meter. My mother even talked about the whole "war on religion" that Fox News propagates when people insist on saying Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas.
Christians, I have news for you. It is not oppression just because you don't get to do whatever you want in the name of your god. It makes me so damned angry when Christians act like victims whenever someone stands up for themselves in spite of a religious nut. Like it is unthinkable that you would deny a Christian the ability to affect your life.
I went home after dinner. I usually stay a while. I am very angry.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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