Ethics

The Christian Persecution Delusion. Again.

By Ed Brayton

And unsurprisingly found at the Worldnutdaily, which seems to specialize in this sort of counter-factual whining. This time it's Greg Laurie with a column entitled The ugly results of banning God from the culture. The first and most obvious question: what culture could he possibly be talking about? It surely can't be the United States of America. Banning God? In no developed nation is god belief and god talk so large a portion of the public discourse, not by a long shot.

There are tens of thousands of churches in this country, probably hundreds of thousands. There are thousands of Christian magazines and newspapers, hundreds of Christian radio and television stations, millions of Christian webpages. It is virtually impossible to be elected to public office without professing a belief in God; in a legislature of 535 people, exactly one admits to being an atheist - and he's the first one that we know of in our entire history. Where in the world has god been banned from this culture?

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on February 25, 2008 (boomark / email).