No, we're not persecuted, but the trends in the culture are heading that way. Maybe not to the full-on persecution your ancestors went through, but definitely an intellectual marginalization, equating us to the Flying Spaghetti Monster and such.
And I know that FSM was made up to counter a very specific issue, that of science education, but the problem is that it gets expanded in the public consciousness, and the next thing you know, one can't quote anything Christian, whether it be Paul's letters or C.S. Lewis without getting a "OMG u iz a FSM lol!!111eleventy11" thrown back.
I don't know; you could argue that this is the most religious president ever*, which kind of counteracts that argument. From my perspective, we have the most conservative Supreme Court of my life, which is already making government far more open to religion.
I think too often what Christians interpret as persecution is what I see as separation of church and state. Not being allowed to have massive Christmas pageants in school isn't persecution, IMO -- it's ensuring that one viewpoint isn't presented as the correct one by public institutions.
You look at the presidential election -- every single candidate is Christian, and it's to the point that Romney's Mormonism is enough out of the orthodoxy that it's considered one of his biggest problems in the race. I find it hard to go from that step to saying you can't quote C.S. Lewis without being mocked (by rational people).
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And I know that FSM was made up to counter a very specific issue, that of science education, but the problem is that it gets expanded in the public consciousness, and the next thing you know, one can't quote anything Christian, whether it be Paul's letters or C.S. Lewis without getting a "OMG u iz a FSM lol!!111eleventy11" thrown back.
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I think too often what Christians interpret as persecution is what I see as separation of church and state. Not being allowed to have massive Christmas pageants in school isn't persecution, IMO -- it's ensuring that one viewpoint isn't presented as the correct one by public institutions.
You look at the presidential election -- every single candidate is Christian, and it's to the point that Romney's Mormonism is enough out of the orthodoxy that it's considered one of his biggest problems in the race. I find it hard to go from that step to saying you can't quote C.S. Lewis without being mocked (by rational people).