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I get the impression that people subconsciously believe that Christians should get special, preferential treatment, but don't want to come out and say it. And there have been the odd few who think that only Christians should be allowed to live here.

The fact that we are currently in a place where the entire world has been invited inside our walls without our consultation does complicate things, but what do you mean by special treatment?

I think we understand that some/all types of Islam have trouble coexisting with other religions. Where Christianity will just debate you and talk to you, Islam may occasionally decide to remove heads or tax the unconverted at 90% rates. If the special treatment is not being forced to convert to Islam or die, then yes, we would generally like that special treatment.

There are real issues with thinking everyone can just live together in close proximity with any sort of population/culture mixture and under the same laws while strumming guitars around a campfire. The feeling on that front is likely mutual between abortion clinic operators and evangelical pastors, for instance.

Going to all the trouble of laying out all this trying to prove that the US is a Christian nation is pointless if there is no benefit in it for Christians.

Well, for instance, when a 100 foot tall statue of a Hindu monkey god goes up in a land, Christians believe that place is cursed. When child sacrifice is prevalent in any area, those people have a tendency to get wiped out hard.

So yes, the benefit is that God’s wrath doesn’t hit us like 2lb lugnut hailstones falling from the sky, which we don’t like.

We also believe we should be able to raise our children praying in school, which was the case until the 1960s (and in some places, even to the 80’s and 90’s)

You might argue that the curse is all in our minds, we would argue that you are seeing the early judgments of those curses play out in front of your eyes right now, and without repentance they will get much worse.

5 hours ago
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Reason: None provided.

I get the impression that people subconsciously believe that Christians should get special, preferential treatment, but don't want to come out and say it. And there have been the odd few who think that only Christians should be allowed to live here.

The fact that we are currently in a place where the entire world has been invited inside our walls without our consultation does complicate things, but what do you mean by special treatment?

I think we understand that some/all types of Islam have trouble coexisting with other religions. Where Christianity will just debate you and talk to you, Islam may occasionally decide to remove heads or tax the unconverted at 90% rates. If the special treatment is not being forced to convert to Islam or die, then yes, we would generally like that special treatment.

There are real issues with thinking everyone can just live together in close proximity with any sort of population/culture mixture and under the same laws while strumming guitars around a campfire. The feeling on that front is likely mutual between abortion clinic operators and evangelical pastors, for instance.

Going to all the trouble of laying out all this trying to prove that the US is a Christian nation is pointless if there is no benefit in it for Christians.

Well, for instance, when a 100 foot tall statue of a Hindu monkey god goes up in a land, Christians believe that place is cursed. When child sacrifice is prevalent in any area, those people have a tendency to get wiped out hard.

So yes, the benefit is that God’s wrath doesn’t hit us like 2lb lugnut hailstones falling from the sky, which we don’t like.

You might argue that the curse is all in our minds, we would argue that you are seeing the early judgments of those curses play out in front of your eyes right now, and without repentance they will get much worse.

5 hours ago
1 score
Reason: Original

I get the impression that people subconsciously believe that Christians should get special, preferential treatment, but don't want to come out and say it. And there have been the odd few who think that only Christians should be allowed to live here.

The fact that we are currently in a place where the entire world has been invited inside our walls without our consultation does complicate things, but what do you mean by special treatment?

I think we understand that some/all types of Islam have trouble coexisting with other religions. Where Christianity will just debate you and talk to you, Islam may occasionally decide to remove heads or tax the unconverted at 90% rates. If the special treatment is not being forced to convert to Islam or die, then yes, we would generally like that special treatment.

There are real issues with thinking everyone can just live together in close proximity with any sort of population/culture mixture and under the same laws while strumming guitars around a campfire. The feeling on that front is likely mutual between abortion clinic operators and evangelical pastors, for instance.

Going to all the trouble of laying out all this trying to prove that the US is a Christian nation is pointless if there is no benefit in it for Christians.

Well, for instance, when a 100 foot tall statue of a Hindu monkey god goes up in a land, Christians believe that place is cursed. When child sacrifice is prevalent in any area, those people have a tendency to get wiped out hard.

So yes, the benefit is that God’s wrath doesn’t hit us like 2lb lugnut hailstones falling from the sky, which we don’t like.

5 hours ago
1 score