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How does highlighting Chavez (the American farm worker advocate, not the Venezuelan ex-president) slight Christians? Heck, Cesar Chavez himself was Catholic. I

by yohui 13y ago

How does highlighting Chavez (the American farm worker advocate, not the Venezuelan ex-president) slight Christians? Heck, Cesar Chavez himself was Catholic. Insofar as it matters, Google did have an Easter doodle back in 2000: http://www.google.com/doodles/happy-easter-2000 http://www.google.com/doodles/happy-easter-2000 So you can't even say they've ignored the holiday, just that they prefer to highlight different ones from year to year (with exceptions presumably due to internal popularity or artists' personal predilections). (Sorry for wasting thread space on this old, off-topic, manufactured controversy.)

jlgreco 13y ago
Invariably when you hear about a "war on Christianity" in first world countries, the topic is a manufactured non-issue. It never stops, and logic plays no part in it.
- drivebyacct2 13y ago
  Dude, they're having a hard enough day. My heathen-self can now marry and remotely, instantly ruin their marriage. POOR THEM JLGRECO, POOR THEM.
  - jlgreco 13y ago
    I should not have been so insensitive! :/
  - btilly 13y ago
    If you look at divorce rates by religious affiliation, they seem to be ruining their own marriages.
- lke 13y ago
  > In first world countries Is that a thing outside the US ? I've never heard of it outside of US news. I'm pretty sure they are people who beleives that in other countries. But do they get media attention like in the US ?
  - jlgreco 13y ago
    I don't think it is a talking point outside of the US (if it is, I have not been exposed to it), but people in the US do like to point out what they perceive as "a war on christianity" in other countries. If the country in question is, I don't know, Cambodia, perhaps that is true (no idea if it is or not). But if the American christian fundamentalists are claiming that there is a war on christianity in England or France, then they are without doubt full of shit. It seems like there is a certain brand of christian fundamentalist in America that really wants to think that the Romans are still tossing them to lions or something. They find that idea vindicating perhaps, I don't know. I don't get it.

by yohui 13y ago

jlgreco 13y ago

Invariably when you hear about a "war on Christianity" in first world countries, the topic is a manufactured non-issue. It never stops, and logic plays no part in it.

drivebyacct2 13y ago
Dude, they're having a hard enough day. My heathen-self can now marry and remotely, instantly ruin their marriage. POOR THEM JLGRECO, POOR THEM.
- jlgreco 13y ago
  I should not have been so insensitive! :/
- btilly 13y ago
  If you look at divorce rates by religious affiliation, they seem to be ruining their own marriages.
lke 13y ago
> In first world countries Is that a thing outside the US ? I've never heard of it outside of US news. I'm pretty sure they are people who beleives that in other countries. But do they get media attention like in the US ?
- jlgreco 13y ago
  I don't think it is a talking point outside of the US (if it is, I have not been exposed to it), but people in the US do like to point out what they perceive as "a war on christianity" in other countries. If the country in question is, I don't know, Cambodia, perhaps that is true (no idea if it is or not). But if the American christian fundamentalists are claiming that there is a war on christianity in England or France, then they are without doubt full of shit. It seems like there is a certain brand of christian fundamentalist in America that really wants to think that the Romans are still tossing them to lions or something. They find that idea vindicating perhaps, I don't know. I don't get it.