- 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.
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- 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?
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- The double standard is evident everywhere.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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<http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/33400/zombie-jesus-comic-book-prince-pieces-soon-be-risen>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.
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- This is not a time for Christians to go silent. Visit
<http://www.truthtellers.org/>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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- What really empowers rampant anti-Christianity?
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- So few Christians who will put lions in their cages.
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- Harmony Grant is a writer for National Prayer Network.
To greater understand the illogic behind hate laws, read her article "<http://www.truthtellers.org/alerts/11reasons.html>Top
Eleven Reasons You Should Fight Hate Laws."
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- Let the Anti-Defamation League teach you how they have
saddled 45 states with hate laws capable of persecuting Christians, and
spearhead attempts to pass the federal hate crimes bill: <http://www.adl.org/99hatecrime/intro.asp>http://www.adl.org/99hatecrime/intro.asp.
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- The freedom-saving outreach of Rev. Ted Pike and the
National Prayer Network is solely supported by sale of books, videos and
your financial support. All gifts are tax-deductible.
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