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Thomas Hurt

(13,929 posts)
1. Terribly "persecuted"....
Tue Sep 12, 2017, 07:35 PM
Sep 2017

1. Around 70% of Americans are Christian of one flavor or another, that is 210,000,000 million
2. There are Christian radio stations in every market in the US https://tools.wmflabs.org/wp-world/googlmaps-proxy.php...
3. There are numerous Christian publishing houses
4. There are Christian book stores in the US
5. You can't swing a dead cat without hitting a church
6. This country has multi million dollar mega churches and legacy denominational churches and small mom and pop churches
7. This country has the huge Mormon church, which is Christian no matter how much others protest that holds political and social sway over a whole state and parts of at least two others
8. The catholic church, is a powerhouse itself
9. There is faith based initiatives office in the WH
10. Christians hold around 90% of seats in Congress
11. Christians have lobbyists in DC
12. Christian websites and apologetics are rife on the internet
13. Christian faiths of all kinds have TV shows on public access and cable networks
14. No Christian is prevented from going to church
15. No one is making a Christian get an abortion or use birth control
16. No one is making a Christian marry someone of their same sex
17. Congress has passed legislation to help protect, ostensibly all religions but they in practice protect Christianity almost entirely.
18. There are thousands of private Christian schools from kindergarten to universities in this country.
19. Christians are free to annoy others with their proselytizing
20. Christians are free to leave this country and annoy foreigners with their proselytizing
21. They are free to pray to themselves anytime
22. They are free to pray in public aloud as long as it is not sanctioned by the government
23. They are free to raise their children in their faith, they do not have let them watch worldly tv or listen to worldly music or go to secular schools etc.
24. Churches don't have to pay taxes and yet receive the protection of our military, fire, police and get gov't funding for natural disaster damages.

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