As a Subscriber to Women for Israel's Tomorrow (Women in Green)http://www.womeningreen.org I have just received a newsletter which provides a direct copy of an article entitled: Christians Eat Lions in 2004 By Don Feder
In some of my previous commentaries at the Magic City Morning Star, I have talked about what happens when God is removed from the equation of life, and about standing up against and being counted as opposed to anti-social and self interested minority political activists. I also wrote about Sweden's hate speech law. This article by Don Feder touches directly upon such issues.
Don Feder looks at the recent American Election from the perspective of those who voted against the Democrats. It is an interesting article. I will quote in part, and leave it up to you to take a closer look at it at the above link.
The Democrats have spent decades making life miserable for Christians. On Election Day, Christians returned the favor ... the Democratic Party and its allies have devoted themselves to alternately sneering at and savaging Christians ... They've depicted the followers of Jesus - evangelical Protestants and traditional Catholics in particular - as superstitious degenerates, bigots, trailer-park misogynists, both sexually repressed and hypocritically lecherous, and a gang of Torquemada wannabes who constitute a clear and present danger to democracy and the 21st century.
After all of this, the Democrats are shocked to discover that they aren't wildly popular in the Bible Belt.
To the amazement of The New York Times, 22% of voters told exit pollsters that they were motivated by "values" or moral questions � more than those who based their votes on the economy or the war on terrorism. Bush was endorsed by over 80% of values-driven voters.
In the latest evolution of liberal anti-Catholicism, Senate Democrats have established what amounts to a religious test for public office. Kennedy and his cohorts have announced that, no matter how qualified, a pro-life judicial nominee will be automatically rejected. They might as well hang a sign on the door of every federal courthouse in the land : "Catholics Need Not Apply."
Here are a few of the outrages documented in the pages of the report.
- In St. Louis, Missouri, a 12-year-old student was reprimanded for praying over his lunch.
- A public-school teacher in Houston punished two sisters for bringing bibles to class, confiscated the bibles and threw them in the trash, then threatened to report their parents to the state's Child Protective Services. At the same school, another student was forbidden to read a bible in his free time and forced to remove a Ten Commandments dustcover from a textbook.
- At a New Jersey veterans cemetery, a member of an honor guard, and a Vietnam veteran, was fired for saying "God bless you and this family" to the family of a deceased veteran.
Christians would have to be masochistic not to revolt against this constant abuse, and totally lacking in discernment not to see it all leading to a nation where faith is marginalized, humanistic values are enshrined in government, and the culture, and hate-crimes laws are used to punish dissent.
Evangelical Christians have been in the arena a long time. For once, they ate the lions.
R.P.Bendedek
Email: rpbendedek@hotmail.com
Note: Because of the recent Server change, some links may not work. This file was amended August 2007.
R.P.BenDedek is the pseudonym of the Author of 'The King's Calendar: The Secret of Qumran' (www.kingscalendar.com), and is a guest columnist at Magic City Morning Star News. An Australian, he currently teaches Conversational English in China. King's Calendar Social Commentaries
"The King's Calendar" is a chronological study of the historical books of the Bible (Kings and Chronicles), Josephus, Seder Olam Rabbah, and the (Essene) Damascus Document of The Dead Sea Scrolls.
