Who Will Stand Up For The Christians?
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In the 1st century AD, Christians were savaged by wild beasts in the Roman arenas under the form of capital punishment known as Damnatio ad Bestias. Today, as evidenced by the treatment of Kate Forbes, they get mauled in the public arena, by the press and social media.
The mainstream media immediately highlighted Forbes’ religious beliefs as a reason why she was unsuitable to be leader of the SNP. During the campaign, The Independent ran the following headline, “Search begins for new SNP leader as evangelical Christian narrowly leads race for top job.” Before one even reads the article, Kate Forbes’ Christianity is made into an issue. The article, itself, then says she has been criticised for making anti-abortion comments and wanting to delay the Gender Recognition act. The other candidates are named without any mention of their beliefs and without any criticism of any kind. The Guardian also chose to highlight her religious belief in their headline, “Kate Forbes’ religious beliefs could stall her bid to beat Sturgeon.”
So, why no mention of Hamza Yusuf’s religious beliefs, for example? Forbes is a practising Christian who attends church. Yusuf is a practising Muslim who attends his mosque. The antipathy to Forbes seems to relate to her opposition to gay marriage. The Bible believes marriage should be between a man and a woman and therefore a Christian, like Forbes, is seen as bigoted and a threat to the diversity and inclusion world we now live in. The fact that Islam also views homosexuality as a sin and says it should be punishable by death doesn’t seem to be a problem for the mainstream media though. It is only Christians that are not suitable for positions of power.
However, this anti-Christian bias is much more pernicious than merely suggesting Christians shouldn’t be allowed near the levers of power. It can, and does, descend into outright hatred as this anti-Christian, venomous, diatribe from a site called Open Democracy shows. The author, a self-proclaimed ‘transwoman’ called Chrissy Stroop, claims that Kate Forbes’ plea for ‘religious freedom’ and ‘tolerance,’ is actually ‘Christian Privilege’ and ‘Christian Supremacy’. Apparently, this leads to depriving certain other religious groups from a ‘seat at the table.’ Ironically, the author completely fails to realise that calling for Forbes to be disqualified from being the leader of the SNP for her Christian views is doing exactly that. The author then goes on to say that “Christian privilege functions in much the same way as white, male, cisgender and straight privilege function: subtly (and sometimes not so subtly) conveying advantages to those who belong to society’s de facto normative category and corollary disadvantages to those who fall outside that category?”
You may dismiss this as the mere rantings of a left-wing extremist, but the problem with extremists is that they tend to advocate for extreme action against those they despise. On March 27th a transgender student, Audrey/Adrian Hale, walked into a Christian school in Nashville and murdered three students and three teachers. No motive has yet been established although there are rumours that the killer was having problems with their school and family failing to accept them as identifying as transgender. Whatever the truth may be, Christians are viewing it as a direct attack on them because the media has painted their views on topics such as drag shows for kids as bigoted and hateful and for the general contempt the media shows for Christian values. The mainstream media, not wanting to offend the trans community, issued apologies for using the wrong pronouns when describing the killer.
Amazon have had to remove an advert for a t-shirt which said, “Trans rights” followed by drawings of assault rifles, and the words “or else” below them. As Christians would traditionally be opposed to the idea there are anything other then the two sexes God assigned to us, they may well have cause for concern, particularly as there are now transactivists on social media calling for Christians to be beheaded and Christian babies to be tossed into garbage cans.
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