[CS-FSLUG] [PD] 10 cents? 20 cents? a million dollars?

[David McGlone]

On Sun December 25 2005 10:40 am, dmc wrote:
> > Need articles like this always be viewed as "us" versus "them"?  (eg.
> > I've seen Jewish, Muslim, Sikh, and other religious groups supporting
> > Christian groups when they feel that those groups have been wronged).

I don't see it as "us" versus "them" I see it as "Christians" versus "the 
Government"

For example, not too long ago, there was a little girl who was muslim that won 
the right to wear a headdress to school because her religion required her to 
wear it, but her peers that were Christian were not allowed to express their 
faith in any shape or form publicly.
>
> Extrememly rarely.  How many Muslim groups in the USA have been
> active in promoting America and condemning the Islamic terrorists? 

This is how I feel. I feel even our own government that established Christian 
principles in this country are now turning their head on Christians to make 
it more comfortable for other groups to have their freedom. In other words, I 
feel like I have to put my feelings and beliefs under lock and key in the 
closet so everybody else can live a normal lifestyle of freedom.
>
> In France the Muslims are up in arms due to restrictions on
> wearing religiously-required "uniforms" in government "public"
> schools but how many Muslim organizations show up to stand
> alongside Christians when our freedom of speech is attacked
> in court and in the public forum?
>
> > Maybe "their own country" is the USA?
>
> Not when they stand silent as their fellow Muslims preach
> lies and hate against America -- they then are the same
> as those in WWII Germany, Europe, and even America who
> stood silent as Hitler propagandized and strategized to
> impose his fascist brand of terror upon the world. 

Exactly. I as a Christian am starting to feel like a Jewish person in Germany 
in the Hitler era. here latley I've been afraid to wish anyone a merry 
Christmas. I used to wish everyone I came into contact with around Christmas 
a Merry Christmas and a happy new year. Now I'm just afraid to do it. I'm 
afraid that clerk or cashier will jump across the counter and black my eye or 
knock my tooth out. 

And of course I'll probably lose the lawsuit for getting assaulted because the 
defendant would claim they were standing up for their beliefs  then I'd get 
counter sued for making the defendant feel oppressed ;)
>
> As our President has said, post-911 you either stand with
> freedom or against it, pretending to stand in the middle
> is to make a statement of moral equivalency -- an absurdity.

Well I think I'll go get my closet cleaned out now. ;-0

Disclaimer: I am not trying to start a debate or create any problems here, I 
am just sharing my feelings about what I think the world is coming to and has 
already come to in my eyes. I may be wrong, I may not be. But I don't really 
think I'm too far off.

David M.