There’s just so much good in this article (Shakespeare’s Sister gets the hat tip). I think this is the money quote:
“This is a skirmish over religious pluralism, and the inclination to see it as a war against Christianity strikes me as a spoiled-brat response by Christians who have always enjoyed the privileges of a majority position,” said the Rev. Robert M. Franklin, a minister in the Church of God in Christ and professor of social ethics at Emory University.
In fact, these people are so whiny and bratty that even a false alarm is out to get them:
Several attendees called the fire alarm suspicious, though a hotel spokesman said it resulted from a mechanical problem in a distant location.
Something should also be said about the viciously anti-Semitic Jews willing to say things like this:
Don Feder, founder of a group called Jews Against Anti-Christian Defamation, urged the crowd not to blame “the liberal, self-hating Jews in Hollywood.”
“Remember, the people in this audience are more Jewish than people like Barbra Streisand, because you embrace Jewish values, she doesn’t,” he said.
People like this make me sick, lap dogs to the Christian Right, willing to pander to people who condemn them.
Don Feder is horrible. Rabbi Daniel Lapin is another one who’s in bed with the fundamentalist wingnuts. Sickening indeed.
Thanks for sharing. I just blogged about this yesterday. Too many people are complacent on these issues believing that Christian evangelicals are harmless when, in truth, they yield enormous political power. People need to wake up.
This is the ultimate expression of having your cake and eating it too. Do we see any tanks here…bulldozing Christian churches perhaps? No. Any Christians being hoist on crosses, fed to lions? Nope. Anybody being forciby converted. No again.
Though these are extreme examples, I would note that the these whiners want to point to aggression in the Middle East and claim that it’s not a war on Islam, but turn right around and claim that, in a country where they are the majority religion a was is being executed against them.
Base hypocrisy.
This is the ultimate expression of having your cake and eating it too.
Hammer, meet nail. You’re dead on. They’re jealous of the mileage Jews have gotten from being oppressed. They’ve never known real oppression so they confuse it with mild discomfort.
What really bugs me about this kind of nonsense is how these people act as
if they represent all real Christians.