RIH, BC

[elfs]

Johnny Hart died Easter Sunday. Hart was the creator of the B.C. comic strip but despite his attachment to cavemen and dinosaurs Hart was a Christian fundamentalist and young Earth creationist who often lampooned what he did not understand. He once said that his mother did not die as a Christian and so went to Hell, but he expected that when we went to Heaven his God would erase that knowledge from him so he wouldn't feel bad knowing about her eternal damnation.

I'm pleased anyone so twisted by that kind of belief system has been removed from our presence. Johnny Hart was a minor tumor on the sensibilities of America.

There are some graves I would dance upon.

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[elfs.livejournal.com]

I am continually astonished by the hatred people have for Christians in this country.

I am continually astonished that someone out there thinks there's massed hatred for Christians in this country. The population is nine-tenths Christian. 49 out of 50 state governors are Christians, and they keep getting elected. Our national legislators are Christians in ratios higher than the general population.

Given that Christians have control over the levers of government, explain to me again how there's hatred in this country for Christianity in a way that has any impact at all on the way Christians lead their lives.

[3smallishmagi.livejournal.com]

>The population is nine-tenths Christian.
>
That begins to explain it. The bigger the majority, the more likely they are to rudely impose their views on everyone

>49 out of 50 state governors are Christians
>
That's an expected result of a Christian majority.

There's the forgetting of your separation of church and state idea in the last 7 years or so, though it has probably been going on for a while.

I coincidentally ran across a BBC documentary on Fred Phelps and the Westboro (?sp) Baptists, and can see (ha) how you could be unpopular if you have even a little of what they have.

Anyway, it was a personal observation. In South Africa Christians are respected and appreciated by and large by the population, where in America Christianity is a dirty word. Christians themselves think...all sorts of things of themselves I suppose.

I suppose you've seen these:
http://www.comicsreporter.com/images/uploads/bcgoofiness_thumb.jpg
http://wondermark.com/tcsd/bc1.gif
which ran into trying to figure out what you were on about.

[omahas.livejournal.com]

Anyway, it was a personal observation. In South Africa Christians are respected and appreciated by and large by the population, where in America Christianity is a dirty word. Christians themselves think...all sorts of things of themselves I suppose.

Different Christians in this country think different things. Individuals such as Fred Phelps, for example, consider my husband and I to be evil incarnate and would, if they had the legal right, literally kill us and our children as an example of their faith.

Individuals such as my very Christian next door neighbors are loving, caring, open-minded people who find that there is enough room in this world for everyone...no matter their faith (and find my paganism fascinating).

What you are experiencing "continuously" is the response to individuals such as Fred Phelps who, though not in the majority of the population (philosophy-wise), at this time have a huge amount of money at their disposal and a majority in the government reigns of power, and have chosen to ignore such unimportant things as, oh, say the Constitution. And in frustration Elf then tends, at times, to generalize. Naughty Elf. ;)