The Persecuted

http://dissidentvoice.org/2019/01/the-persecuted/
Date Written:  2019-01-14
Publisher:  Dissident Voice
Year Published:  2019
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX23376

Fundamentalist Christians maintaining that they are persecuted may not make sense given the prevalence of sympathetic and Christian-owned media and businesses. Listening to a sermon reveals they see the inability to impose their views in society as persecution.

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"Did I understand" the pastor questioned "that today in western countries such as Canada or Netherlands a Christian can be put in jail for ten years because of their faith?" Unbelievable you say, such were my thoughts upon hearing this until I heard the explanation that followed. According to the preacher the crime of faith Christians are getting charged with is hate speech. Herein is the crux of their argument, the rights of Christians to "profess" their doctrines has been hindered.

As the homily continued I did as the talk show host Joe Madison recommended and listened with the "third ear." What I came to understand is that the fundamentalist Christian belief that the Bible is the uncompromised word of god supersedes, in their view, any secular social or legal constraint. If their interpretation of the bible condemns, for example, homosexuality then they see it as their "right" to discriminate or condemn what they consider a "sinful" behavior in any way they see fit.

Any attempt to deny the Christian faith a position of preeminence in culture and society is labeled by fundamentalist as persecution.