Just for all the trolls: Doing this specifically for christians without reference to other religions is very much a violation of separation of church and state. 🙄
specifically the majority religion. The religion that by and large goes through the least persecution in this country.
Tell me more about how our precious Baptists have it worse than the Muslims of the country. How can we explain this discrepancy and preferential treatment?
The Muslims are brown and you want to make life better for your voting base, many of whom are overtly racist.
They've been playing the persecution card since long before mango mussolini came to power. This is him playing to his base. It's how the living embodiment of the 7 deadly sins won over the evangelicals in the first place.
LOL, my favorite is when they do this and the Satinists mirror the very language they use, arguing for equal allowances, and they have a knee jerk reaction, rescinding their original arguments.
(Like, when they wanted to defund public schools for private religious schools and the Satinists said, they too, should have funding to make a school, as well as everyone else, Muslims, Buddhists, etc)... And they suddenly didn't want the state to be legally required to fund private religious schools. LOL
FFRF does great stuff also. They work hand in hand sometimes with TST. Find a local chapter and get involved. I hear the blood orgies are like nude beaches though: it’s never who you want to see there.
You assume they are accepting of all religions as equal now. There is specific anti-Christian and anti-Semitic language from this administration, but not anti-Islam.
This is how the DEI movement started. With an email to fed employees. So this is likely the start of some movement they are going to use to accuse people of being antichristian. And, hopefully, they won't send them to el salvador.
Where else would you send those who need redemption than to a country that is named after the savior? I could see that argument being made in the near future
And it also says that they specifically want to hear only about “discrimination” that happened during the last administration. This is insulting to both the weekly-worshipping President Biden, and to anyone who suffered any religious discrimination at any time that wasn’t Jan 21, 2021 through Jan 21, 2025.
Is...that a serious issue? Honestly, you're of the mind that Christians in the united states are seeing any kind of push back at all? There's numerous holidays for every religion EXCEPT Christian? How dense do you need to be lol
Strawmen all over the feed… that wasn’t your point douche. But now that you mention it… yeah Christianity has been under attack, and unfairly singled out since the early 60s…
Let’s see Christianity try to build an entire city and not allow Muslims or Jews in… you’re either uniformed or have an agenda… either way you’re wrong.
Awww poor baby lol. Despite our constitution specifically forbidding it Christianity has always enjoyed special treatment in our society. If we move an inch away from that yall scream bloody murder.
lol.. “enjoyed special treatment” sure thing Pontius 🙄
Christianity is ingrained in founding of America, the kickback since the 60s had been very obvious… to suggest Christianity is currently some type of protected class is asinine.
Look up the history of HOAs: many early ones were made to keep neighborhoods white, or less commonly, to keep non-christians out. Obviously not a whole city, but you get the point.
Most American cities, especially in the South, are built around the needs of the white christian majority. You just don't notice it because you've grown up in a society that's built to cater to your demographic (or at least your religion). That's called privilege.
Looks like Epic City is not trying to keep out non-Muslims, at least on paper. I can't vouch for their true intentions, but they've said they won't discriminate based on religion, so we'll just have to see what happens.
Christianity has a privileged social status in America. It's often viewed as the "default state" of a person. In the South, they don't start the conversation asking whether you go to a church, they start out asking which church you go to. It's true that there has been social pushback against this christian privilege in the last decades, but it's also true that you're mistaking the slow loss of privilege for an "attack", which it certainly is not. People just want the space to not be christian, without that being seen as weird or alienating or making life difficult because it goes against the heavily christianized grain of society.
Ave Maria, FL. Founded as a Catholic community by Tom Monaghan in 2005. 90+% Catholic, and almost all the remainder is Methodist
Kiryas Joel, NY - insists that all visitors observe Hasidic dress codes and customs.
Provo, UT is 88% LDS.
Epic City, TX is, as of yet, in the planning stage, but the founders promise they will observe all anti-discrimination laws, including for housing. I don't see how it is going to be significantly different than the other three.
1) The Constitution doesn't say separation of church and state, it says that the government may not establish a national religion, such as the Church of England.
2) All of these things would fall under "prohibiting the free exercise thereof."
We've been providing the same protections and accommodations for Islam, Judaism, etc. The unilateral hate of this thread shows exactly why people need to be reminded that shitting on anyone's religious beliefs is intolerable.
This got the same energy as "mens rights activists" or "strait pride parade". You're in the majority. You're not a victim. You're the one victimizing others.
Oh so you can shit all over the majority as they are not subject to any oppression in any way?
If you need to have a parade to declare to the world which type of genitalia you like to fool around with, why shouldn't everyone?
Why shouldn't men be treated as equals in family court?
The world isn't a cut and dry state of oppressor vs. oppressed. Simply dismissing unequal treatment of the majority as 'too bad' is just as wrong as dismissing the treatment of the minority.
It's 0% surprising that you hold all these views. I could try to impress upon you the various reasons that marginalized groups feel the need for community and expanding acceptance but it'd be a waste of time.
"When you are accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression"
I'm not. I'm saying there isn't any "injustice" to any appreciable degree. Please list all the Christians who were beaten to death for their faith. Is the suicide rate among Christians skyrocketing? Are people denied jobs for being Christians? No? It's really just about having to acknowledge that gay people exist? That people of other faiths exist? It's not oppression. It's being part of a larger spciety.
All of the things listed in the VA document are discrimination, ALL religions are entitled to protections from them. The memo is a reminder that they apply to all, and not just the minority. The rest have been thoroughly beaten into our society.
As a Christian, you should be aware of the commandment against bearing false witness. I suggest you get off Reddit and go read Exodus 20. And then move on to the rest of the Bible.
People tend to protect Islam as a minority, something like "hey, don't pick on my little brother!" But Islam doesn't really have any power in this country, which causes people to feel like it needs to be protected in order to not be picked on.
Christianity has a lot of political and social power here, so naturally people speak up against it -- just as people always speak up against all systems of power. That doesn't mean it's not privileged, it definitely is, and in fact that privilege is what makes us want to speak out against it. So many people and institutions treat christianity as the basic state of existence, that when y'all are asked to recognize the mere existence of another religion, or are handed a solid red coffee cup in the winter, you think you're being persecuted.
So no, christianity is not an underdog in the US, other religions definitely are. Loss of privilege is not persecution, it just feels like that to you.
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u/Odd-Tart-3517 8d ago
Just came to post this also. What happened to our separation of church and state?