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Re: Christmas and Schools

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Originally Posted by Blacknight
Actually M Christianity is the most persecuted religion in America because nothing protects it.
The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution protects Christianity, along with all other religions, by ensuring that the Government can create no law to disfavor it, along with all other religions. It protects all religion. To draft or enact a law that protects Christianity alone, due your assertion of its place as the "most persecuted religion," would violate the Establishment Clause and be unconstitutional. The Establishment Clause was drafted to combat the sort of argument that seeks to compel people into believing one religion is more deserving than another of anything; something that the text you've written here comes dangerously close to supporting. Your belief about which religion is most persecuted, or the reality of which religion is most persecuted, for that matter, are irrelevant in the eyes of the United States' government. It can do nothing to protect them.


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Oh and yes i have been persecuted for my faith. And yes i have fought for it so before you assume plz kno a little more about the person you're talking about.
Were you stoned by Muslims? Made to wear an identifying mark on your clothes by the Jews? Were you told that you can't openly practice your Christianity by the mayor of your town; Stuart, is it? Perhaps you were burned at the stake?

Perhaps I'm forgetting about some enormous movement toward Christian persecution in the history of the United States that parallels the real religious persecution that history has shown to have occurred around the world -- The Holocaust, The Crusades, The Witch Trials, or maybe The Boxer Rebellion. Nothing you have experienced is comparable to the scale of tyranny that a single religion, when given preference by the state, can bring forth unto other faiths. You're a member of the majority class and, as such, do not know oppression. Oppression is nothing more than theory to you, and you wield that theory dangerously and without regard for the consequences. It's fun to pretend that Christianity is on a level playing with all other faiths, or even that the balance of power has tipped away from its favor, by both those ideas are quite false.

This is way off topic now and I don't believe I have much left to say on this subject. History is clear enough about the things that have happened regarding religion and government, so the best I can hope to do is illustrate those facts. I'm not going to bother trying to make anyone believe in them.
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