Enough is enough

I read an article today from a Texas newspaper about a bill that allows children in public schools to discuss their faith without discrimination or ridicule. As I read it I thought, it's about time! I saw that there was an area for comments so I clicked on it. I'm saddened to say that I wasn't the least bit surprised to see what people were saying.

Most of the comments were the usual anti-Christian clap trap. The article had nothing to do with Intelligent Design (which is not Christian anyways, no matter how forcefully atheists try to ignore the facts), and yet there were numerous people all in a dither about that. There were the people who think they are being intelligent and witty talking about pastafarianism (which in case you don't know is a satirical religion based on the flying spaghetti monster who created everything), and those who acted like a girls right to pass out faith bracelets to her friends was the equivalent of a young radical muslim talking about jihad and blowing people up (please keep in mind that most muslims don't believe this is proper Islam anyways.) But the comment that really got to me was the person who said that s/he was tired of Christians acting like an oppressed minority. This isn't the first time that I've heard this comment from someone who has no idea what being a Christian in today's world is like.

Admittedly, North American Christians could be far worse off, but to act like they aren't mistreated is just unbelievable ignorance. In America, separation of church and state has been warped into something completely unrecognizable to the people who wrote it. Most people who tout it don't even know what it was originally for, which was to keep the government out of church business. Unfortunately it has been almost completely reversed by this corrupt and unbelieving generation.
In this day and age it has become acceptable to openly hate Christians. It's not enough these days to just disagree with a Christian, instead it's better to treat them with hostility. It has become the politically correct stance to be violently opposed to Christians. I myself have been told that I should die, or be killed. And this by people who I'd never said a word to, but who have come across some of my poetry online.
The ACLU, as stated in an earlier entry, is trying to remove religious symbols from the war vet cemeteries. And why are they doing that? Who knows? Probably just because they get money and society will allow such a frivolous proceeding to take place.
The faith responsible for molding the western world, for freeing black slaves, for starting many, if not most, hospitals and schools, and for pioneering many of the hard sciences is now under attack by people who know nothing about it other than what they hear on TV or see in the newspaper. And this is evinced by the fact that they suggest all Christians are like faith healers, or televangelists. The Christianity I'm a part of is nothing like the one people outside the faith lampoon and abuse. And yet I'm told that I am the one who is ignorant when I defend my faith.
I'm tired of it. Enough is enough.