Anti-Christian US Governmental Policy?

[MariaRegina]

Orthodox believer Professor Terry Mattingly has a weekly syndicated column (Scripps Howard News Service)

His article for April 11, 2007, may have hit home for a lot of folks.

He mentioned that some evangelical pastors became upset with a tax-funded staged raid on a local high school. Now read what could have upset them:
Consider what happened recently after a staged emergency at Burlington
Township High School in New Jersey. The police script for the drill called
for armed men to crash the front doors, shoot several students and
barricade themselves in the library with hostages. This document,
according to the Burlington County Times, described the intruders as part
of "a right-wing fundamentalist group called the 'New Crusaders' who do
not believe in the separation of church and state." The two gunmen
attacked because a child had been expelled for praying.


Do you think that Christians were being portrayed as terrorists?

Didn't Clinton portray Serbian Christians as terrorists too, and isn't it true that Orthodox Christians in Kosovo and Serbia are still being treated like dirt by our government while the true terrorists are allowed to bomb Orthodox Churches and Monasteries?

Who are the true terrorists? And why is our government portraying Christians as terrorists?

[Hoankan]

Fundimentalists of any color be they Islamic, Christian or what not, can be terrorists. In Montana, where I am from, we've had our share of Christian militia groups as well as other extremists (the unibomber comes to mind) that even put a death warrant out for the local judge because she invaded their "God given right to their land."

The real problem I see is that people aren't really good at looking close enough at groups to identify who the really dangerous people are. We just label them in broad strokes like Serbians, Muslims, Christians, postal workers. Then we drop down on them even if they've done nothing wrong.

My knowledge of the extremist situation in America is out of date (I haven't volunteered as a Sheriff's Deputy in years) but I remember there being a militant Christian camp somewhere in the south with their Jesus Camp that basically indoctrinated the kids into a very hate filled belief. There are groups out there that have perverted God's word to the point that they can be a very dangerous threat. There are also apacolyptic cults out there that want the End of Days to come and are willing to make it come about.

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Be careful not to feed the predominant victim mentality of our age. Christians, especially, should be welcoming a some persecution and suspicious of attempts to generate "faux" outrage. There is a thriving industry online and in various media at inciting a "How dare they!" response to one-off events like this. For many shock jocks and political bloggers their entire livelihood consists of playing to the emotions of select demographics. Stories like this, as well as the annual "Christmas persecution" stories, are sought out and designed to elicit a response. I admit I am as susceptible as anyone, which is why I try to keep news like this at arms length and always question what we *really* know. Almost always what we *think* we know about a story is much less than what we want to *feel* about the story. In other words, these types of stories reveal more about ourselves by our response than by the stories themselves.

My two cents. Lord forgive and have mercy on me, a sinner. God bless you Aria.

[rusmeister]

I want to live in a country that really honors God, too, while letting people who don't want to live. (free will).

At times like this, I try to keep my eternal destiny in mind. There's only so much we can do here, and we have to trust God for the rest. Even when it turns catastrophic in our temporal conception.

Consider how Orthodox Christians in Russia felt in the 1920's (and onward). It was catastrophic, and the turnaround was not in their lifetime - they couldn't see the time when things would turn back around over here (in Russia). I have to make it through another 20 or 30 years, and try to be the best Christian family man I can be. If on the personal level, where I have some measure of control, I'm bound to have some failures, how much more on a national level, where I control nothing?

When I stand before God (in that 30 years, or 5 minutes hence), I hope He will be pleased with my pitiful efforts and attempts at repentance. It kind of puts concerns like these into a bearable perspective.

[EmperorConstantine]

Anyone can be a fundamentalist and anyone can be a terrorist no matter what the motivation.

Didn't Clinton portray Serbian Christians as terrorists too, and isn't it true that Orthodox Christians in Kosovo and Serbia are still being treated like dirt by our government while the true terrorists are allowed to bomb Orthodox Churches and Monasteries?

Who are the true terrorists? And why is our government portraying Christians as terrorists?Politics. If Clinton bombed the Muslim mosques of Serbia and area than let's face it, there would be jihad left and right (like there is now) and oil embargoes. Let's not forget the claims of "you're just doing this because I'm Muslim!"

If Clinton bombed the Croatian Roman Catholic churches, all of Boston, Savannah and Chicago would be up in arms.

But out of the three, what one group is not known of at all in the US? Which one would result in the lowest amount of civil dissent?

Let's also remember that at the time it was Yugoslavia and not Serbia. Milosovic was trying to (I believe) resurrect ye olde Yugoslavia which was Communist.

It's all convenience, double standards and hypocrisy. Not to mention pity for the poor oppressed Kosovoers and Albanians.