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AMERICA
TOLERATES ANTI-CHRISTIAN DOUBLE STANDARD
By
Harmony Grant
Recently in my
ultra-liberal city of Portland, I found myself driving behind a car with
just one bumper sticker. “So many Christians,” it read, “So few
lions.” I wondered what could possess a person to adorn their car with
this one homicidal sentiment—and then possess my community to let them
drive around, unaccosted. A friend and I discussed later what other
slogans might be put on a bumper sticker.
What if it said “So many Jews, so few gas chambers”? It could read,
“So many blacks, so few nooses.” Or “So many Muslims, so few Abu
Ghraibs.” How long would it take for a car with that sticker to be
pulled over? Twenty minutes?
The double standard is evident everywhere.
A superior court judge recently ruled that the National Education
Association can discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation—if
they’re discriminating against ex-gays. The NEA
refused to let an ex-gay organization run an information booth at
their conference, and the judge said this was fine. The DC Office of
Human Rights said ex-gays aren’t protected from discrimination because
their sexual orientation obviously isn’t “immutable;” (they
abandoned practicing homosexuality). This kind of wordplay just shows
the power of legal activists to manipulate discrimination laws to
protect some citizens not others.
The Washington Times reports
that a ten-year-old New Hampshire girl has been ordered to attend public
school; the state disapproves of her mother’s firm Christianity and
says she must be exposed to other religious faiths. Would they have done
this to a Jewish or Muslim child? Unlikely.
By “exposure to other religious faiths,” the court really means
“exposure to severe skepticism about Christianity.” In time for next
Easter, children’s author Philip Pullman will treat us to his latest
book, The Good Man Jesus and the
Scoundrel Christ. The book claims the apostle Paul cooked up the
“story” that Jesus was divine. Pullman told The
Times that Paul’s “fervid imagination” is the only reason
anyone thinks Jesus was the incarnated God. A
rep from Canongate Books calls it a “book of genuine importance, a
radical and ingenious retelling of the life of Jesus that demystifies
and illuminates this most famous and influential of stories.” But you
don’t have to wait until Easter for more pseudo-history claiming to
uncloak the real facts about Jesus’ illegitimacy, bastard love child
with Mary Magdalene, or other attacks on the faith. Christmas is right
around the corner, and it brings scholarly attacks on Christianity as
dependably as supermarket poinsettias.
The double standard also extends to those notorious cartoons. The
Danes’ one-panel Mohammed cartoon created a ruckus around the world.
Jews fight back too: the Arab
European League is being prosecuted for a one-panel cartoon less
than reverent about the Holocaust. But what about Christians? An entire
comic book, Prince of Pieces,
skewers a zombie Jesus—and no one fears hate crime charges. By Sam
Miserendino, the comic book is about “a pissed off zombie Jesus
returning to devour the flesh of sinners…As
one character wryly observes, "For two thousand years you've
been eating His flesh and drinking His blood... Now it's His
turn."” The comic book isn’t even enough; a film is in the
works, too.
This is not a time for Christians to go silent. Visit www.truthtellers.org
for easy-to-follow steps to protest legislative threats to our freedom:
threats going forward in Congress right now. This matters far more than
protesting even the most grotesque media assault.
There is something each of us can do. My youngest sister reposted one of
our stories on Facebook. Sheets of letters to the president, protesting
his upcoming signing of the hate bill, sit near our fax machine. I’ve
been considering how to carve out twenty minutes daily to call Congress,
or commit to call just twenty names.
We need to make protest part of our daily lives, as the attack only
thickens. There is reason for hope. Democrats dominate both houses of
Congress, making them highly vulnerable at this time of intense voter
dissatisfaction. God could still reverse the insidious tide sweeping us
out to anti-Christian, anti-freedom seas—if we unite our faith with
action.
What really empowers rampant anti-Christianity?
So few Christians who will put lions in their cages.