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Originally Posted by Mojo_PeiPei
Well here's a good one, the gay issue. Tell me that the majority of the people opposed to it are not Christian, and that they don't feel their America's "Christian Moral Fiber" is under attack by a bunch of crazy radical queers trying to do away with the most basic unit in society, the nuclear family.
Please we have secular people going after Christianity in the public realm, not religion in the public realm, christianity. I'm not going to bother going into specifics right now, it's a board statement that I would hope everyone could at least in principle agree on what's happening, if not I can throw some out there.
There's two reasons Christians may feel attacked.
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I do not believe you understood the question.
It would be very simple to point to anything and state that it is "under attack". Somebody somewhere will disagree with anything. The concept here is not whether there is a single person attacking a single thing, or a small group of people attacking a extremely large group of people - the question "how is Christianity under attack" is quite specific to the size of the threat. How is Christianity under attack that it feels threatened to the degree that it is fighting for survival?
There is no answer to that question, because Christianity is not under attack in that manner.
Further, if you take a step back and recognize that Christianity, here in the U.S. in regards to power over government, has been growing rapidly over the past few decades, then you can see that it is not Christianity that is being criticized, but rather the power growth of Christianity that is being criticized. For example, I have no issue with Buddhism, but if the power over government of Buddhism started to increase dramatically, and we began to have policies enacted that were based on the philosophy of karma (which would alter our legal system), I would then begin to criticize Buddhism's influence on government. And there would almost certainly be many Buddhists who then claimed that Buddhism was under attack.
I.E. Back off and there are no problems. Keep pushing the Christian philosophy on the country and you will be met with more and more resistance at every turn.