I would be careful revealing ANY personal info, even state or country if I were you. People get fired or arrested for being Christian, and practicing faith these days, when ratted out by some.
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Translation: I am actually a 13 year old kid who doesn't want my mom to know I've been using her computer to be a dick.
Oh wait, its dad. Correction: I am a 43 year old man who doesn't want his mom to know I have has been using her computer to be a dick.
Christians are a dominant majority in the United States! You will not get fired in the USA for being a Christian! Christians are not being persecuted in the Western World!
Outside of a few backward Islamic states in the Middle East, I'm fairly certain Christians are NOT being persecuted anywhere.
In fact, most Islamic states tolerate Christians just fine, unless you try and convert their people away from Islam. They take a rather dim view of that.
But the last time I checked, it's still illegal in Canada to shoot at the Jehovah's Witnesses that come around pestering you on a sunny Saturday...
That's why there are so many of you brilliant people very proudly saying moronic things without anyone shooting at you or firing you, etc.
Some of us think you're an idiot, but you're not being persecuted.
So if someone posts his name and state on his profile his employer automatically knows who it is? I'm pretty sure that double names tend to occur in large areas with millions of people.
But then again he is right about keeping your profile as personal data free as possible. I read a news item about a guy being robbed by 2 14 year olds at gunpoint. He met them via MySpace and they pretended that they were their some 18 year old. The guy comes over to meet her and is robbed at gunpoint. A little bit further in the story it was said that he removed most private data from his MySpace profile, among others his salary!
<<< People get fired or arrested for being Christian, and practicing faith these days, when ratted out by some. >>>
Maybe in the Middle East, but not here. You might get fired for preaching to your coworkers incessantly, or arrested for harrassment or trespassing if you go door-to-door and won't get off their property even after they tell you to get the hell out. But the same is true if you were preaching any other religion (or atheism, for that matter). Religion isn't the reason for those repercussions, the reason is that you're being an ass.
"People get fired or arrested for being Christian, and practicing faith these days, when ratted out by some."
And other morons are being elected to the White House for no other apparent reason than that they are a practicing Christian.
Now who was it who said that you should rejoice and be glad when people persecute you and say bad things about you for his sake? Big hint ιησου χριστου
So, if you think that you are being persecuted, Christian, do what your master tells you and stop complaining and rejoice.
Louder, I can't hear you!
Yeah, those odds are REALLY stacked against you, aren't they dad? Just you and the majority against the big, bad, 17% of the rest of America.
Fuck you.
There was a "lady" on Fox News claiming she was fired because she was Christian. Turns out she was actually fired because she started an anti-gay campaign in the workplace and wore gay-hate T-shirts, etc to work.
She tried to sue the employer by claiming it was her religious duty to do such things (which, according to the Bible, is technically correct), ergo her sacking was discrimination base on religion.
No, ma'am, it was simply because you're a fuckhead.
the long war on Christianity in America continues today on the floor of the House of Representatives and continues unabated with aid and comfort to those who would eradicate any vestige of our Christian heritage being supplied by the usual suspects, the Democrats.
Rep. John Hostettler (R-IN)
Yes, the long war on Christianity. I pray that one day we may live in an America where Christians can worship freely! In broad daylight! Openly wearing the symbols of their religion
. perhaps around their necks? And maybe dare I dream it? maybe one day there can be an openly Christian President. Or, perhaps, 43 of them. Consecutively.
Jon Stewart
dad is crazy.
I've been thinking about this scenario since hearing about this girl who wanted to die so she'd go to Heaven.
If I met someone like her here in Norway and got her admitted to psychiatric care for her suicidal tendencies, and foreign media for some reason got to know and picked up on it (which is unlikely and would of course require a breakdown of this interesting phenomenon called the "oath of confidentiality"), how long do you think it would take the fundies to twist it into "OMG! In N0rway they admit Xians to psychiatric ohspitalz!11" and draw comparisons to the USSR, point out how Norwegians are secularized, and so on?
Probably not very long.
it's funny but, actually atheists are the ones who sometimes get in trouble because somebody they knew personally found their blog or website and found out they were atheists.
You aren't being persecuted. Quit whining.
If by "practicing Christianity", you mean stoning suspected adulterers, gay people, witches, etc., then sure. You can't do that :)
I've heard that christian missionaries in China, the Middle East, and some African countries have a hard time of it.
However, just in the last couple weeks a U.S. atheist on YouTube had to take his channel down b/c he is a teacher, and someone at work found his vids. His choice: Take them down or be fired.
He never talked about his lack of religion at work or in the classroom, so it wasn't impacting his job. It was a pure case of discrimination against an atheist.
To "dad" (which is really kind of a creepy screen name): Please point me to ONE instance of this happening to a christian in the U.S., and I might listen to you about this. (Mighty big "might", tho. LoL)
Yes, there is a LOT of personal information you should keep off the net (especially in public "social network" type sites) but your religion shouldn't be one of them IF you are a christian in the U.S. After all, wouldn't denying you religion deny your "redeemer" and therefore god himself (itself?)? That's a like a Big Deal No-No in christian-land!!!!
Reveal your fundie madness and brave the consequences ... FOR JEEBUS!!!! Sinner that you are.
Ha!
What strange country do you live in? I have never heard of anyone in my country being fired or arrested merely for being Christian. I've had friends and co-workers who are Christians (and Jews and Muslims and Jehovah's Witnesses, etc). None of them have ever been "ratted out" or persecuted in any way, as far as I know. (Perhaps some school yard bullying, but bullies would take anything and everything and use it, it's not particularly religious at all.)
Proselytizing or "witnessing" would get you frowned upon, however. You simply don't push your religion onto others here.
"And Jesus did say, 'Pay thee no attention to what Paul will tell you when he writes the epistles. All who would be my followers must shy away from martyrdom and hide like cowardly ninnies, for with such wimpiness, I am much pleased."
That's from Mark, Chapter 17. Look it up.
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