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Thats what you claim. If you talk to many Christians, they 100% believe they are being oppressed and that secularists and Atheists are coming to destroy their f

Thats what you claim. If you talk to many Christians, they 100% believe they are being oppressed and that secularists and Atheists are coming to destroy their faith. Who are you to deny their grievances. As for the CCP, there are plenty that claim that anti-CCP is anti-Chinese racism and has no place on the stage

falcolas 5y ago
> Who are you to deny their grievances. Someone who looks at them and sees that they are the majority religion in the Western world, and have politicians everywhere pushing their talking points and morals on everybody else.
- NikolaeVarius 5y ago
  Once again, that is what you claim, in the same way that right-wingers point to the fact that we have had a black-president so racism isn't a problem anymore. Why do your claims have more truthiness than theirs?
  - falcolas 5y ago
    Because my claims are falsifiable? Christianity accounts for 2.3 Billion people in the world, the next highest is Islam at 1.9 Billion. Unaffiliated (of which Athiests are only a portion) is only 1.2 Billion worldwide. Thus, Christianity is, by definition, a majority. In one example to prove my second point, politicians in Texas are pushing Christian morality around abortion into laws. This is the opposite of being oppressed.
    - dragonwriter 5y ago
      > Thus, Christianity is, by definition, a majority. No, its a plurality, which is a minority that is bigger than any other minority when there is bo majority. OTOH, the popular use of “minority” that is being referenced doesn't mean mathematical minority, it means “historically systematically oppressed group”; it evolved from the language around race in the US, where whites were the majority and minorities (especially blacks) were oppressed on the basis of race, but the key reference is the oppression not the numerical relationship.
- furgooswft13 5y ago
  Literally every single institutional aspect of the Western World; entertainment, media, education, big business, even the alphabet agencies ... aggressively push LGBTQ/anti-racist grievance theology all day long every day. They never, _ever_ shut up about it (this is why you can't even clone a repo these days without being made aware that BLM exists). The only ones who don't push this constantly are (some) Republican politicians and religious institutions. So spare me. You are not punching up, or "fighting the power". Your religion is the power.
  - david38 5y ago
    Truth.
  - whydoibother 5y ago
    People couldn’t get married due to religion just a little while ago. Women are losing birth control rights because of religion. What rights are you losing because marketing for companies are pushing shallow lgbtq advocacy? Not really the same thing, is it? Way to get all faux outraged though.
taylodl 5y ago
Paranoia != reality. Just because Christians in the West "100% believe" atheists and secularists are coming to destroy their faith doesn't make it true. Meanwhile this "oppressed group" is slowly but surely making theocracy a reality in the United States.

falcolas 5y ago

> Who are you to deny their grievances. Someone who looks at them and sees that they are the majority religion in the Western world, and have politicians everywhere pushing their talking points and morals on everybody else.

NikolaeVarius 5y ago
Once again, that is what you claim, in the same way that right-wingers point to the fact that we have had a black-president so racism isn't a problem anymore. Why do your claims have more truthiness than theirs?
- falcolas 5y ago
  Because my claims are falsifiable? Christianity accounts for 2.3 Billion people in the world, the next highest is Islam at 1.9 Billion. Unaffiliated (of which Athiests are only a portion) is only 1.2 Billion worldwide. Thus, Christianity is, by definition, a majority. In one example to prove my second point, politicians in Texas are pushing Christian morality around abortion into laws. This is the opposite of being oppressed.
  - dragonwriter 5y ago
    > Thus, Christianity is, by definition, a majority. No, its a plurality, which is a minority that is bigger than any other minority when there is bo majority. OTOH, the popular use of “minority” that is being referenced doesn't mean mathematical minority, it means “historically systematically oppressed group”; it evolved from the language around race in the US, where whites were the majority and minorities (especially blacks) were oppressed on the basis of race, but the key reference is the oppression not the numerical relationship.
furgooswft13 5y ago
Literally every single institutional aspect of the Western World; entertainment, media, education, big business, even the alphabet agencies ... aggressively push LGBTQ/anti-racist grievance theology all day long every day. They never, _ever_ shut up about it (this is why you can't even clone a repo these days without being made aware that BLM exists). The only ones who don't push this constantly are (some) Republican politicians and religious institutions. So spare me. You are not punching up, or "fighting the power". Your religion is the power.
- david38 5y ago
  Truth.
- whydoibother 5y ago
  People couldn’t get married due to religion just a little while ago. Women are losing birth control rights because of religion. What rights are you losing because marketing for companies are pushing shallow lgbtq advocacy? Not really the same thing, is it? Way to get all faux outraged though.

taylodl 5y ago

Paranoia != reality. Just because Christians in the West "100% believe" atheists and secularists are coming to destroy their faith doesn't make it true. Meanwhile this "oppressed group" is slowly but surely making theocracy a reality in the United States.