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Originally Posted by nguirado
The US is a diverse country. In some parts and in some industries, being Christian can be a liability. The entertainment industry. People were fired in CA for supporting prop 8. A professor was fired for teaching Catholicism in a Catholicism class. Studies show that joining conservative-leaning groups hurts one's chances of getting into some colleges.
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None of those things are a result of "being Christian."
If "supporting Prop 8" was a "Christian" activity, than the law was an attempt to impose religion on the state, and should've been overturned earlier.
I suspect the professor was not fired for "teaching Catholicism," but for attempting to teach that it was better than other religions.
And as much as I'm prone to thinking otherwise, "Christian" is not a synonym for "conservative."
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In other parts of the country, being a non-Christian might be a bad thing.
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There are tiny pockets of the US where being a non-Christian doesn't subject a person to the constant risk of public censure and sometimes attack. There are no parts of the US where non-Christians have equal consideration given to their religious beliefs... government offices are closed on Christian worship days, not on the worship days of other religions.
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Nobody in the Us is persecuted like Christians are in the Middle East, China, and some other parts of the world. We need to keep things in perspective.
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It is not legal to persecute other religions like Christians are persecuted in some parts of the world. That doesn't mean people aren't attacked and sometimes murdered for other religions.
That Christians don't own the world doesn't mean they lack any privileges in the US. And there are plenty of Christians in the US who *want* a system like that in the Middle East, only in their favor--they want the right to imprison or kill people of religions they don't approve of.