Top Seven Acts of Christian
Bashing in America in 2007
FT. LAUDERDALE,
Florida, Jan. 9 /Christian Newswire/ -- "From murder and
intimidation, to the crass and the blasphemous, 2007 was a
horrendous year of Christian bashing," said Dr. Gary L. Cass,
Chairman and CEO of the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission.
"Anti-Christian sentiments are being fomented in the culture and are
becoming more deadly and cynical," said Cass. "Impressionable young
people are being swept up in anti-Christian hysteria, aided and
abetted by a greedy, a-moral entertainment industry. Mocking
Christians, blaspheming their faith and ridiculing their values has
become the easy way for 'entertainers' to shock their way to the
top."
"The Christian
Anti-Defamation Commission (CADC) calls on anti-Christian
politicians, Hollywood and New York media elites to stop the
Christian bashing and take responsibility for the culture of hate
towards Christians they have helped to create. The CADC will work
aggressively to stop this dangerous and irresponsible Christian
bashing in 2008."
1.) Colorado Church
Murders--"You Christians brought this on yourselves I'm coming for
EVERYONE soon and I WILL be armed to the @#%$ teeth and I WILL shoot
to kill. ... God, I can't wait till I can kill you people. Feel no
remorse, no sense of shame, I don't care if I live or die. ..."
Posted by a troubled young man, Matthew Murray, ten hours after
killing two at the Arvada missionary base and two hours before
killing two at a Colorado Springs church. Churches used to be
considered sanctuaries, but now they are targets for the hateful and
the deranged. The CADC calls on every church to be prepared to use
deadly force, if necessary, to protect their congregations.
2.) Federal Hate
Crimes Bill--The 2007 Federal Hate Crimes Bill which threatens
religious liberties and lays the groundwork for "thought crime,"
which has no place in American law and violates the concept of equal
protection under the law. As has occurred in other nations, these
laws pave the way for Christians to be silenced and even arrested
because they believe that homosexual acts are sinful. It is
totalitarian regimes which punish thoughts, not free societies.
Thomas Jefferson declares that "the legitimate powers of government
reach actions only, and not opinions."
3.) Violence on San
Francisco Church--In September, Christians in San Francisco spoke
out against a blasphemous anti-Christian advertisement for the
Folsom Street Fair, a perverted "fair" for the sadomasochistic,
leather fetish community. The ad mimics the classic Christian
painting of Christ at the Last Supper. In the ad, Christ and the 12
Disciples are portrayed as sexual deviants provocatively posed
before a table of sex toys.
4.) Attack on Jerry
Falwell--CNN reached a new low when Anderson Cooper invited
Christopher Hitchens, editor of Vanity Fair Magazine, on his show
the day of Jerry Falwell's death to make critical remarks about
Falwell. Hitchens made the most reprehensible and offensive remarks
one can imagine against a Christian minister, Jerry Falwell, even on
the day of his death. Christopher Hitchens called Falwell "a little
toad ... a horrible little person...an evil old man...a conscious
charlatan and bully and fraud...an actual danger to democracy, to
culture, to civilization."
5.) CNN's "God's
Warriors" and "Friends of God"--Two biased, anti-Christian
documentaries were produced and aired. One by Nancy Pelosi's
daughter, Alexandra, "Friends of God" on HBO and the other by CNN's
Christiane Amanpour, "God's Warriors." At least they tried to act as
if they wanted to be fair. Of course, they failed. Evangelicals are
almost 100 million strong and very diverse but are reduced to
clichéd caricatures or are portrayed as the moral equivalents of
Islamic terrorists.
6.) John Edwards's
Campaign Bloggers who called Christian supporters of President Bush
his "wing nut Christofascist base." One asked, 'What if Mary had
taken Plan B after the Lord filled her with his hot, white, sticky
Holy Spirit,' to which she replied, 'You'd have to justify your
misogyny with another ancient mythology.' They posed the thoughtful
question of religious conservatives, "What don't you lousy %#*@!+#
understand about keeping your noses out of our britches, our beds
and our families?"
7.) Golden Compass,
the Movie--Phillip Pullman's atheistic answer to C.S. Lewis'
Chronicles of Narnia series because destroying the church and
killing God in the mind of every child is the best revenge. Why be
damned alone when you can take a few million souls with you and get
rich on the proceeds.
