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Originally Posted by Marvelous Marv
All too often, revealing you are a Christian opens the door to assumptions that by no means apply to all of us.
For example, it only took you four sentences to zero in on the "Christian Right" as if they speak for all Christians.
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This is an excellent point, and you made it a lot more quickly than I did in my post earlier... I agree with you, but I'd like to take it a little farther.
There aren't so many groups in the world (or here on TFP, especially in places like the politics group) that don't get treated this way. I think when you don't feel this way it is because your particular group has a dominant presence (not exclusively so, but weighty nonetheless).
I wonder if you feel that Christians are
especially unwelcome here... From my perspective, they're treated as just another group of people. By that I don't mean they're ignored, but rather that they are fair game for analysis and criticism like any other group (whether religious, social, or other). But then, I'm not particularly Christian these days, so my opinion doesn't speak to the experience that Christians have here.
I'm interested in hearing more from Christians about how they reconcile their faith with some of the common practices/beliefs around here...