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Here’s an article from the Washington Post online that caught my attention today. Here is the most frightening and disturbing piece:

As recounted by former speechwriter Bill McGurn, who was at the meeting, Bush told Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-Kiun that “the church is the rock — it is the only thing that can withstand the wave of secularization, which says you can kill someone else to make your own life more convenient. He said the Catholic Church must never give in on this.”

This is an obvious attack on secularists with an implicit threat …read more »

I once overheard a conversation in which one of the conversing parties expressed frustration over a perceived constraint that prevented him from saying “Merry Christmas” and instead forced him to say “Happy Holidays”. He went on to describe how this was another example of modern American society stifling and persecuting Christians. “We can’t even say ‘Merry Christmas’ anymore”, he lamented to his friend.

I hear this argument often from so-called “persecuted” Christians; a frustration of not being able to profess their Christian belief in a public manner. My first issue with this is …read more »