JFlorio wrote:
I figured it out. The left despises Christians because we are independent and our God is God, not government. They support Islam because it's either convert ( which they really don't get) or pay a tax. Liberals have never seen a tax they don't like.
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I respect your comment, JF. My take on why the left despises Christians comes from a different perspective. I think Liberals are INTOLERANT of any moral restraint. It is so much more "convenient" to dismiss the church and its tenets and devalue everything which inhibits conscience and scruples. They are so anxious to be free from the least of constraints that they have relegated our culture, dignity and respect to a back seat.
During the Obama Administration we found teachers instructing students to write the name of Jesus on a paper, put it under their foot, and stamp on it; efforts made to take Christ out of Christmas; Merry Christmas being morphed into Happy Holidays; crucifixes in urine; dung thrown on an image of the Blessed Mother and displayed as "art;" and mangers being removed. Atheists displayed a giant sign in Times Square during Christmas that featured an image of Santa Claus, and an equally large picture portraying a suffering Jesus on the cross, along with the phrase, “Keep the Merry — Dump the Myth!” - "'Who Needs Christ During Christmas - Nobody!" Then, of course, there was the Easter Egg Hunt that morphed into Obama's "Spring'' Egg Hunt.
And while Christianity is being ridiculed and degraded, children in Revere, Massachusetts are being forced into studying Islam and reciting the shahada: ("I bear witness that there is no god but Allah and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.") In order to convert to Islam, one says the shahada. Saying the shahada makes you a Muslim. The "World History" Common Core textbook has a complete chapter on Islam, including the "The Five Pillars of Islam." There are NO CHAPTERS ON CHRISTIANITY OR JUDAISM -- but there are photos of young, blonde, American students being forced to "bow down to Allah" as they kneel in a mosque in Tennessee, while on a "Field Trip."
Christianity is facing elimination in its Biblical homeland. Between a half and two-thirds of Christians in the Middle East have departed or been killed over the past century. Christians have called these countries home for two millennia; CHRISTIANITY IS NOT A WESTERN IMPOSITION OF HISTORICALLY ISLAMIC COUNTRIES. The intolerance and violence towards Christians is attributed to the rising Islamization of Middle Eastern countries. Some of the oppression is government sanctioned and some government permitted; most is government ignored.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel declared that Christianity is “the most persecuted religion in the world.” Rupert Short’s recent research report for Civitas UK confirms Merkel’s claim — we may not want to hear it, but Christianity is in peril, like no other religion. While this is a contest no one wants to win, Short shows that “Christians are targeted more than any other body of believers.” Short is the author of the recently published Christianophobia: A Faith Under Attack. He is concerned that “200 million Christians (10 percent of the global total) are socially disadvantaged, harassed or actively oppressed for their beliefs.”
Yet America, especially in the past eight years, seemed overly concerned with Islamaphobia as the number of U.S. Mosques continues to flourish and Catholic/Christian churches decline.
Recent studies show that 80% of mosques preach jihad (through sermons and/or materials) and that more than 95% of Muslims attend such mosques. But the horror doesn’t end there as one considers the issue of funding. While many Muslims claim they raise the money for mosques within the local community, common sense alone would cause one to question how, for example, tiny communities of Muslims could raise millions of dollars to build gigantic mosques. Common sense aside, there is evidence that shows that 80% of mosques in this country receive funds from Saudi Arabia.
We see no charitable outreach of Muslims toward Americans, but as far as the Catholic Church helping the poor, needy, etc.: It provides an estimated 25 percent of the care worldwide for people living with HIV and AIDS. It runs more than 5,000 hospitals, with nearly half of those located in Africa and the Americas - the Catholic Health Association of the United States is also the largest group of non-profit health care providers in the country. The church runs nearly 20,000 clinics around the world, more than 15,000 homes for the elderly, those who are terminally ill, and the disabled, and nearly 10,000 orphanages, mainly in Asia.