FRC says xtian persecution in Middle East same as in America

• June 3, 2015
• civil liberties  
• religion  
• secularism  
• christianity  
• wingnuttia  

Another day, another begging for money email from the Family Research Council. This one asks us to

Please Take a Stand for Persecuted Christians In American… and Everywhere!

By providing “My Gift to Stand!” (which are links to pages where you can give the FRC money). They continue with

Christians overseas are our example. They are being crucified. They are being beheaded. They are being tortured. And yet they refuse to renounce Jesus Christ.

I agree that we should fight against the beheading and crucifixion of people just because they don’t believe a particular religious dogma. But unlike the FRC I don’t care if the victims are believers in Christianity, Islam, Judaism, or some other religion. Nobody should be killed because they hold a religious belief different from yours. Including if that person does not believe in any God. The FRC email goes on to say

The “persecuted church” is no longer confined overseas. It’s here.

In America, fellow Christians are being fired, threatened, shamed, financially depleted, labeled as “haters,” forced out of growing categories of career fields and more.

What the FRC conveniently forgets to mention is that those xtians being fired, shamed, etc. in the USA are violating the secular laws of our nation that apply to everyone. Including believers of other faiths and non-believers (i.e., atheists). Too, conflating what happens to xtian bigots in the USA with what happens in the Middle East is so outrageous you have to wonder if Tony Perkins, head of the FRC, feels physically threatened when a non-xtian has the temerity to publicly say his beliefs are bullshit and he should stop trying to impose them on everyone else.