Liberally sprinkled with Intolerance & Bigotry

For all of the liberal claim to openly embrace everyone there seems to be quite a few people left behind in this massive group hug of theirs. I am speaking mainly about the growing liberal hatred of anything Christian. Recently, in New Jersey, a school held a terrorist drill where the 'terrorists' were right wing Christians. The supposed terrorists seized the school because two students were expelled for openly praying in school. Although a clamor was raised over the insult to the many people who claim Christianity as their religion; the apology offered by the school district definitely could have been of a more sincere nature.

It is becoming increasingly popular to ridicule and openly attack Christians in public. As a Scarborough Country article which appeared on MSNBC writes, "American media companies are raking in millions of dollars from movies, books and TV series that attack Christians and depict Jesus as a fraud. This week’s Newsweek offers a thoughtful piece on whether God even exists, but its respectful approach to a subject once thought taboo is the exception rather than the rule. It seems big media is cashing in on a growing trend to attack God, Christians, and followers of all faiths."

It is not just Christians who are the targets of liberals for conservatives, of every type, are also under a scrutinizing attack from the left. Open debate, once the cornerstone of our society, is no longer tolerated nor practiced by the left who much prefer falling back from debate and into a more seedier discussion filled with name calling and slanderous attacks. Thomas Sowell, himself a victim of many of these attacks, writes in a Townhall.com article that "The source of the anger of liberals, "progressives" or radicals is by no means readily apparent. The targets of their anger have included people who are non-confrontational or even genial, such as Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. "

So, the left has declared an open hunting season on both Christians and conservatives and this is from those who claim that they embrace everyone?

It must be one heck of an embrace for it is laced not with compassion and understand but with a liberal sprinkling of intolerance and bigotry.

Conditional Tolerance

Tolerance, these days, seems to be, more and more, given out only on a conditional basis. During the Middle Ages, before the Crusades, Christians and Muslims once co-existed peacefully with one another. Greedy men, from both sides of the proverbial fence, put animosity between those the Muslims call, 'The People of the Book' and tolerance quickly became intolerance. Through the ages, there have been periods of peaceful and not so peaceful relations between the two monotheistic faiths. Because both faiths are evangelical, they often will collide head to head when it comes to their own spheres of influence much like the United States and the Soviet Union did during the Cold War.

Iraq is has gone from a nation liberated from under the cruel auspices of a dictator to a nation tearing itself apart through violence caused by sectarian differences. What was originally a disagreement betweeen the Shi'ites and the Sunni Muslims has now grown to include violence towards Christians and Jews in Iraq.

According to a FoxNews article hundreds of Christians are fleeing Iraq to avoid persecution by radical elements of Islam. Where there once was peace between the two faiths, there is now a threat of open warfare on the scale seen in Lebanon during its Civil War in the late 70s and 1980s. Christian churches are being bombed and its congregation being coerced through kidnapping, extortion and violence to abandon Christianity and convert to Islam. Nearly 50 percent of Iraq's prewar Christian population has already abandoned the country and more threaten to do so. It seems as if we have returned to those dark days of the Crusades where the three major faiths of the world are at each other's throats.

It is very sad that there is no one in this world who practices what they preach and it is the innocent who suffer for it. It would be easy to strike back in anger but as God commands in Leviticus 19:18 'Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against one of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.' and in Romans 12:21 'Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good' The Muslim Quran borrows heavily from early Christian and Judaic writings but apparently, like their version of tolerance, it is conditional and there are those among Islam who pick and choose which teachings to follow.

'And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night?' ~ Luke 18:7

Starbucks Takes On God

There are no limits to just how far the radical left will go to destroy religion.

BIG BREWHAHAAnti-God Starbucks cup has customer steamingWoman says: 'I don't think there needs to be religious dialogue on it. I just want coffee'
Posted: May 6, 20072:07 p.m. Eastern
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An Ohio woman is steaming after reading an anti-God message published on the side of a Starbucks coffee cup.

The message that got Michelle Incanno's blood boiling reads:

"Why in moments of crisis do we ask God for strength and help? As cognitive beings, why would we ask something that may well be a figment of our imaginations for guidance? Why not search inside ourselves for the power to overcome? After all, we are strong enough to cause most of the catastrophes we need to endure."

Here is a picture of it.

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