Is Fox News right that many Christians are persecuted for their faith in the US?
To be blunt, NO.I am a Christian. For a long time I was even an Evangelical (I’m not anymore, but that’s a different story). I would ask any “Christian” who thinks they are persecuted to try being a Muslim in this area of western Kansas where 3 local men were just convicted of planning a bombing of a Muslim housing project in a small, nearby “Christian” community. I would ask them to ask the Mormons I knew while going to high school and college in Utah and are often accused of “not being Christians”. I would ask them to ask the atheists in southern states who face regular retribution anytime they criticize the misbehavior of “Christians”. I would ask them to ask the non-Evangelical Christians who are regularly called “fake Christians” because they don’t believe the Bible is 100% inerrant despite clear contradictions and scientific inaccuracies. Finally, I would ask them to really look at themselves and ask if their power-driven, capitalism infused, discriminatory faith policies are really undeserving of criticism or challenge. As the grandson of a “liberal” minister, I can tell you that he was a far closer example of living like Jesus than any of the evangelical, fundamentalist Christians who have hijacked the Christian faith in the United States.Being challenged and/or criticized for the policies you support specifically because “your faith demands that” is NOT persecution. It’s a demonstration of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution in action. And contrary to the belief of the politicized evangelical Christians in the United States, we are not a Biblical nation (regardless of the source of our values), we are a nation ruled by the Constitution. And if your faith drives you to want to replace the Constitution with Biblical law (as called for openly by some), you deserve criticism because you are working against our Constitutional system and against the United States.
Do you agree with Fox News host Tucker Carlson in that the mob that gathered outside his home Wednesday night was not a protest but a threat?
I would be willing to bet that most of you will disagree with this statement:“The person who causes another person to feel in danger of bodily harm, has committed assault.” I can’t speak for every state, but in Georgia, the offending person is subject to prison time and a fine. Of course, that depends on whether or not the offender survives being shot. Georgia, and a couple of other dozen states have a law called, “Stand Your Ground.”What defines "Stand Your Ground" in Georgia & S.C.?If the guilty person touches the other person in any way, even if it's just day tap on the arm, a tap on the shoulder, a finger jammed or touched to the chest, ten OOPS, he/her has now committed assault and battery. Yikes, tell Bubba Junior said, “I’ll be away for 5 years or so. Also, can I borrow $5,000 from you?”.If the innocent person is 65 or older, well, we're just not going to get into that right now. Folks, the left and a few of idiots in general have pushed the normal folks almost too far. Tucker’s wife had every right to unload on them, had they walked through the door. Given the fact the door was being banged on, she had every right to suspect as much. Typical of all chicken thugs, they came to Tucker’s home, knowing he was away working. However, they are working too, being paid bye Soros and others.I can’t say for certain, but a GA citizen peacefully dwelling in their home, might not be charged if they select a spot high above the peep hole and blast away. I would have. Trust me, knowing these NAZI thugs are crazy to begin with, I don't think they're crazy enough to risk being shot and killed for $10 per hour, even if it is paid in cash. That’s just one more law their Leftists backers are breaking.Also, unlike the liberal law enforcement in D.C., the brave law enforcement folks we have, would not have stood around trying to decide whether they should wind their ass or scratch their watch.The people who are benefiting the most, aside from Soros, Pelosi, Waters, the entire Democratic party and other anti-American Leftists, are investors in the firearm manufacturers.Keep those cards and letters coming.
Why are some liberals so condescending toward Trump supporters? Do they really feel they are superior?
They can’t believe anyone voted for someone who has spouted so much hate speech, who has so few coherent ideas, and whose tendencies seem too patently autocratic.It’s not about liberals feeling “superior”: it’s about us being morally aghast that you guys got behind a demi-man who called Mexicans “rapists” in his campaign announcement, has degraded women, attacked anyone who dares criticize him, waged a systematic war on the very free press whose constant attention to him probably factored in his victory, attacked a Gold Star family and compared his “sacrifices” as real-estate billionaire to those of the young and dead Muslim-American soldier Humayun Khan, who besmirched John McCain’s status as a war hero — when was Trump ever in Vietnam?, who wants to create a registry for Muslims (much as Hitler did for Jews — bad precedent), who has the zealous support of the KKK, who cozied up to Putin (whose government interfered in the election — in the country whose security the president is supposed to ensure), who has been nominating plutocrats and alt-right loons to very lofty and powerful positions, who promises to deport millions and break up families, to “build a Wall and make Mexico pay for it” (good luck), who will lead us into trade wars and likely encourage fiscal policy that will lead to another huge financial meltdown, calls climate change a hoax propagated by China (and therefore embraces destructive industries and deregulation, and has no agenda to help mitigate the first anthropogenic extinction in our planet’s history), etc., etc., etc.We are disappointed to think we live in a country in which our fellow citizens think that these things are presidential, that they befit the leader of the free world. We are horrified to think that America elected its own image, and that image is this. The man’s affronts to common decency and infantile vulnerability to any provocation should have disqualified him in the minds of all decent and sane people.So what the fuck happened? I am no great fan of Hillary’s. I don’t think Washington is functioning properly. But electing this wholly selfish, power-hungry golem to our highest office was not a wise alternative.It’s not so much about superiority. The feeling is “This is America in the twenty-first century! How could you?”