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Leading Conservative Religious Organization Warns That Christians Will Soon Be Treated Like Blacks In Jim Crow EraBy Scott Keyes on Jan 2, 2013 at 1:34 pm
The American Family Association, a top conservative Christian organization, emailed members today with a dire warning that, within 50 years, Christians will be treated like African Americans during the Jim Crow era.
In an email entitled What will religion look like in the year 2060?, the AFA warned about the coming onslaught against Christians, who currently make up over three-quarters of Americans. The groups predictions include that Christians will be brutally discriminated against like blacks in the Civil Rights Era, government will take children from parents at birth, and any city with Saint or other loosely-religious name will be forced to change.
The full email:
What will religion look like in the year 2060?
Conservative Christians will be treated as second class citizens, much like African Americans were prior to civil rights legislation in the 1960s.
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Full e-mail here:
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/01/02/1386001/afa-christians-2060/
physioex
(6,890 posts)But seriously, I would suggest Christians keep their religion to their home and church. They do not need to display Christmas trinkets in front of a public court house, I would suggest they start at their home or church. We need to get rid of abstinence only sex education and have an honest discussion. Finally, "creation science" belongs in a religious studies class not science.
NC_Nurse
(11,646 posts)terrible people too.
LiberalFighter
(50,754 posts)Another response would be... So god is abandoning you because you are sinning too much. Yet, we "sinners" are doing just fine without your god.
appleannie1
(5,060 posts)BigDemVoter
(4,149 posts)Marthe48
(16,891 posts)And still do?
tanyev
(42,511 posts)Good to know.
DavidDvorkin
(19,465 posts)intaglio
(8,170 posts)LonePirate
(13,407 posts)Do they brainstorm to devise the nuttiest nonsense they can peddle to their sheep in order rack in the donations?
yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)softer, warmer and not so 'needie'. Jesus could ride them too!
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yellowcanine
(35,692 posts)MuttLikeMe
(279 posts)so this sounds like fear of karmic payback to me. (and I'm a Christian).
jmowreader
(50,524 posts)This is a perfectly feasible scenario: the really hardcore fundies will have driven off the people who won't take a bullet for Jesus...and the cast-aside will not be kind to the true believers.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Joe Bacon
(5,163 posts)You and your fellow Ayn Rand worshippers do us a favor. Go Galt and withdraw into your very own Galt's Gulch Church!
We're tired of being bullied by you arrogant, pompous assholes.
Jeff In Milwaukee
(13,992 posts)That so many of these conservative Christians have traditionally treated blacks like shit. So I guess this will just be God's judgement on their behavior.
Heh, heh, heh.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)God, please deliver us from some of your followers! I'm begging ya!
yellowcanine
(35,692 posts)All you need to know about the intellectual worth of this particular piece of drivel.
If we "will have a Muslim president," so what? On the one hand they are arguing that separation of church and state will bring all of these things and on the other they are bemoaning the possibility of a Muslim president. Guess what, folks, separation of church and state means you don't have to fear having a Muslim president. These are truly ignorant people.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)yellowcanine
(35,692 posts)These New World Order tyrants must be a bunch of pussies.
Paladin
(28,243 posts)The RP is an anonymous member of the American Family Association, so he gets all their emails---and then he trashes them, in as vicious and foul-mouthed a manner as possible. Stay tuned....
and-justice-for-all
(14,765 posts)I hope that by 2060 they are a slim minority and the majority of the planets populace has come to reason rather than bunk dogma. The people will not be treated as they have treated the Gay community, but their dogma will hopefully laughed off a cliff.
Conservatism is backwards and has not place in a proper future. Their world vision is bleak, hopeless, cold and Theocratic...
samsingh
(17,590 posts)historylovr
(1,557 posts)mac56
(17,564 posts)I don't even notice anymore when "Christians" play that poor pitiful victim card. It's such a default setting for them. In many cases I think they don't even believe it themselves. They know they run the table here in the good old US of A. It's all a ruse.
About 25 years ago I got a mailing with a prepaid envelope from AFA, urgently asking for my immediate contribution to help block commercials for condoms from being broadcast on TV. I used that prepaid envelope to mail them an unopened condom!
tabbycat31
(6,336 posts)WhoWoodaKnew
(847 posts)Gotta keep their followers afraid of something at all times. Fear is a strong emotion.