Christians being persecuted for their faith. That is a piece of crap. Lets do a comparison of how many Christian churches have been firebombed in the last 3 years just because of the church being a Christian church, and lets compare that to the number of mosques or synagogues that have sufffered the same treatment. Or the number of people who were attacked simply because they are Christian compared to those similary attacked because they are moslem jewish or other group, from the 2003 preliminary FBI hate crimes report. Similar results are found for nearly every year since these crimes have been tracked.
"Law enforcement reported that 1,426 single-bias hate crime offenses resulted from a religious bias: 69.2 percent were an anti-Jewish bias, 10.9 percent were an anti-Islamic bias, 8.3 percent were an anti-other (unspecified) religion bias, 5.5 percent were an anti-Catholic bias, 3.5 percent were an anti-Protestant bias, and 0.9 percent were an anti-atheism/agnosticism bias. Nearly 2 percent (1.8) of anti-religious hate crime offenses in 2003 were due to a bias against groups of individuals of varying religions (multiple religions, group). (Based on Table 1.) http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/03hc.pdf Here's the summary for the 2002 statistics: "Anti-Jewish bias accounted for 65.9 percent of the 1,576 reported offenses rooted in religious bias. Anti-Islamic bias made up 10.8 percent of these types of offenses, and bias against other, unspecified religious groups (anti-other religion) made up 13.8 percent. Of the remainder, 3.7 percent of the offenses were anti-Catholic, 3.6 percent were anti-Protestant, 2.0 percent were against groups made up of multiple religions (anti-multiple religions, group), and 0.2 percent were anti-atheism or anti-agnosticism. (Based on Table 1.)" http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/hatecrime2002.pdf"; By these stats (which the FBI admit are serverly underestimated) hate crime victims are much more likely to be jewish or moslem, catholic or any other belief system than Protestant. Some persecution. Sorry but that victim whine simply doesn't cut it. larry On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 13:47:10 -0500, Matthew Small <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Reading the excerpt that was attached to the email, the writer is talking > about being silenced and berated for his faith. That's what I'm talking > about as well. Neither that excerpt nor I ever said the first thing about > forcing beliefs down anyone else's throat, nor anything about separation > between church and state. > > - Matt Small > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 10:21 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Activist Judges (Was: Court allows Schiavo stay to expire) > > How because the laws prevent Christian beliefs being forced down > people's throats? > > Lets look at persecution, whenever someone has brought up and tried to > enforce the separation of church and state, so-called christians has > harrassed them and in one case (the plaintiffs in the most recent > Supreme Court case stopping enforced school prayer) were literally > driven out of town. > > The place for religious instruction is not the public school but the > home or church. Is the position of your brand of Christianity so > fragile that you need to force it down the throats of all children in > school? > > larry > > On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 09:45:33 -0500, Matthew Small <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I agree with him... Christians are persecuted for their beliefs. I'm not > > going to tell you what to believe, but people at every turn are telling > > Christians that they are crazy, stupid and wrong for their beliefs and > that > > they should shut up. Kind of like you just did (by calling him a nut). > > > > - Matt Small > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: G [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 9:37 AM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: Re: Activist Judges (Was: Court allows Schiavo stay to expire) > > > > Christians are being silenced and persecuted in this country? > > > > This guy is a nut. > > > > But hey, I just read the good news today: the Kansas Board of Uneducation > is > > > > putting evolution on trial! For 10 days people from the science camp, and > > people from the Independent Demagogues Ignoring Obvious Truth, or IDIOT, > get > > > > to argue as to whether the basic fundamental principle of biological > > science, evolution, should be taught in biology classes. > > > > In a related story, math classes will no longer include discussions of the > > "theory" of arithmetic. > > > > > > > > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A40623-2005Feb20?language=printer > > > "CHARLES W. Carrico Sr., a Virginia lawmaker, has decided to rewrite > > > the Founding Fathers. Mr. Carrico, a state > > > trooper-turned-Republican-delegate from Grayson County in southwestern > > > Virginia, says he believes Christians are being silenced and > > > persecuted. "America was founded on Christian beliefs," he proclaims. > > > "Christianity is the majority faith in this country, and yet because > > > the minority has said, 'I'm offended,' we are being told to keep > > > silent." > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:148285 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
