Most American Christians Believe They’re Victims of Discrimination

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Seriously, I'm shocked by this. Most?

"Many, many Christians believe they are subject to religious discrimination in the United States. A new report from the Public Religion Research Institute and Brookings offers evidence: Almost half of Americans say discrimination against Christians is as big of a problem as discrimination against other groups, including blacks and minorities. Three-quarters of Republicans and Trump supporters said this, and so did nearly eight out of 10 white evangelical Protestants. Of the latter group, six in 10 believe that although America once was a Christian nation, it is no longer—a huge jump from 2012.

Polling data can be split up in a million different ways. It’s possible to sort by ethnicity, age, political party, and more. The benefit of sorting by religion, though, is that it highlights people’s beliefs: the way their ideological and spiritual convictions shape their self-understanding. This survey suggests that race is not enough to explain the sense of loss some white Americans seem to feel about their country, although it’s part of the story; the same is true of age, education level, and political affiliation. People’s beliefs seem to have a distinctive bearing on how they view changes in American culture, politics, and law—and whether they feel threatened. No group is more likely to express this fear than conservative Christians."

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics...ve-theyre-being-persecuted-in-america/488468/
 
Poor babies.


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Poor whiny little American Taliban. They can't do what their fellow fundamentalists in ISIS do, and that makes them cry.

Sad!
 
LOL. We're supposed to believe that the American Taliban doesn't want to throw gays off buildings and kill unbelievers?
 
Recent Supreme Court decisions have no doubt added to that feeling of urgency. The same-sex marriage decision last summer set off a wave of state-level religious-freedom bills, and decisions just this week on abortion and birth control have raised objections from conservative Christians.

Which in no way manifest as ‘discrimination’ against Christians.

Opposing laws advocated by Christians clearly in violation of the First Amendment does not constitute ‘discriminating’ against Christians.

Explaining to Christians that they may not use their faith as ‘justification’ to ignore or violate just and proper laws is not to ‘discriminate’ against Christians.

And the Supreme Court invalidating laws which violate the 14th Amendment – such as laws prohibiting same-sex couples from marrying – and striking down measures repugnant to Establishment Clause jurisprudence is not to ‘discriminate’ against Christians.

That the Constitution prohibits all citizens – including Christians – from seeking to disadvantage certain classes of persons based on errant, subjective religious dogma does not warrant Christians’ claims that they’re being ‘discriminated against.’
 
Seriously, I'm shocked by this. Most?

"Many, many Christians believe they are subject to religious discrimination in the United States. A new report from the Public Religion Research Institute and Brookings offers evidence: Almost half of Americans say discrimination against Christians is as big of a problem as discrimination against other groups, including blacks and minorities. Three-quarters of Republicans and Trump supporters said this, and so did nearly eight out of 10 white evangelical Protestants. Of the latter group, six in 10 believe that although America once was a Christian nation, it is no longer—a huge jump from 2012.

Polling data can be split up in a million different ways. It’s possible to sort by ethnicity, age, political party, and more. The benefit of sorting by religion, though, is that it highlights people’s beliefs: the way their ideological and spiritual convictions shape their self-understanding. This survey suggests that race is not enough to explain the sense of loss some white Americans seem to feel about their country, although it’s part of the story; the same is true of age, education level, and political affiliation. People’s beliefs seem to have a distinctive bearing on how they view changes in American culture, politics, and law—and whether they feel threatened. No group is more likely to express this fear than conservative Christians."


If it looks like duck....walks like a duck...talks like a duck...its

most likely....


A few FACTS. There has been more Christian deaths due to their faith than at any other time in World History...over the course of the 20th and continuing into the 21st Century. Just a little thought for fodder.

More YELLOW JOURNALISM from the left. :palm: Better known as the promotion of FASCISM through PROPAGANDA, enabled by the stupid, gullible or evil cohorts setting at the left hand of Satan.

"SIEG HEIL" !!!

Now comes the grinding and gnashing of teeth from the demon section. Personal Ad Homimen attacks due to the facts they are not capable of defending in an honest and objective method the propaganda they are quick to parrot.
 
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