War on Christians?

Please. The only thing more disturbing about this new movement is the crowd that it is gathering. These are some prominent conservative politicians, and they should not be pandering to this crowd. Are there serious issues American Christians face? Of course. Are we under spiritual attack from our enemy? Of course. But to claim that there is some sort of organized persecution in America is beyond the pale. I couldn't agree more with what two critics had to say:

"Certainly religious persecution existed in our history, but to claim that these examples amount to religious persecution disrespect the experiences of people who have been jailed and died because of their faith," said K. Hollyn Hollman, general counsel of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty.

"This is a skirmish over religious pluralism, and the inclination to see it as a war against Christianity strikes me as a spoiled-brat response by Christians who have always enjoyed the privileges of a majority position," said the Rev. Robert M. Franklin, a minister in the Church of God in Christ and professor of social ethics at Emory University.

To even label what American Christians face as "persecution" is a disservice to the Christians around the world who are suffering in ways that we cannot begin to imagine.

When one of these Christians at this conference have every bone in their hand broken just for owning a Bible (A women in Russia I met) or when Christians are rounded up and murdered in this country (As 300,000 around the world were last year) then we can talk about how horrible persecution is here in America. Until then, it does come across as spoiled children complaining.

Again, I'm not saying that there are not serious issues facing us, or that we should not be concerned about the eroding of respect that Christianity has seen. But to even infer that what we face in this country is in anyway akin to what Christians around the world face is patently absurd.