Comments on: Real & Imagined Religious Persecution: How the Religious Right Trivializes the Suffering of Others http://acandidworld.com/2008/08/06/real-imagined-religious-persecution-how-the-religious-right-trivializes-the-suffering-of-others/ Democracy in America Mon, 28 May 2012 22:56:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Thomas Langham http://acandidworld.com/2008/08/06/real-imagined-religious-persecution-how-the-religious-right-trivializes-the-suffering-of-others/#comment-5078 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:54:12 +0000 http://www.acandidworld.net/?p=1099#comment-5078 I am a little confused about the relevance that “Several anti-Christian books by proud self-proclaimed atheists have hit the New York Times best-seller lists…” has to do with religious freedom, and judicial activism? I mean, it sounds like Moore is advocating the gagging of the free press when someone publishes something he doesn’t like. But surely that cannot be the case? He doesn’t seem too bothered by Ann Coulter’s successful publications, which also alienate and offend huge swathes of the population? Perhaps he should read the US constitution, and its First Amendment? Or perhaps he would just prefer the Ten Commandments, doing away with the foundation document of independent america.

]]> By: FCD http://acandidworld.com/2008/08/06/real-imagined-religious-persecution-how-the-religious-right-trivializes-the-suffering-of-others/#comment-5077 Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:50:21 +0000 http://www.acandidworld.net/?p=1099#comment-5077 “To equate the course of religious discussion in America with anything that could even resemble religious persecution in China – or imply that the former could become the latter – is the height of vanity, and trivializes the true suffering of an embattled people. ”

I couldn’t have said it better myself. US christians find persecution against them hiding under every rock and behind every scientific advance. They are so ridiculous in their assertions. Nothing could make that more obvious than working with christian populations in other countries and seeing what true persecution is.

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