Muslims are allowed all the ire and rage they feel like if they are slurred. Buddhists are exempted because they have those pretty shrines and the very convenient pacifism. Scientologists all have so much money and are so exclusive that hardly anybody but they know what the heck they do in their rarefied clubs. 

So the only folks taking hits these days are Jews and Christians and, when they enter elections, Mormons…you know, all the Jesus folk who believe in accountability, forgiveness and wrong and right.

It’s not like they were ever promised a free ride or persecution free worship, but present day persecution is highly amusing.

A ‘well organized’ bunch of anybody-who-is-anti-Judeo-Christian has gone on the offensive, promoting legislation, lawsuits, PC language and passive aggressive behavior, claiming that the aggressive envangelism of organized Judeo/Christianity threatens their freedom.

Of course nobody can actually point out who kidnapped them, locked them up, fed them Bible study and insisted that they join organized religion, but that is not the point.

They ‘might’ do something outlandish.

If you recall the film with Tom Cruise, where they were arresting people for the potential crimes that they might commit, you will have a sense of the insidious attacks allowed against Judeo-Christians these days. 

And if you’re Catholic, good luck pointing out that virtually every hospital on the earth owes its history to the Catholic religion with the clergy and the sisters initially being the only folk willing to take in the sick and the helpless. Good luck pointing out that youth centers, soup kitchens, help for unwed mothers and centers to treat addiction all trace back to Catholicism.

No that was ‘back then’. That doesn’t count now. They’ve been taken on in the public sector now…not that the public sector has made any marked improvement. In point of fact, the non-religious custody of health care and all of the above seems to have filtered out a dangerous amount of compassion and recognition of the individual.  Business and self-interest has led to the diminution of life's sacred value.

A funny thing about ‘back then’. All these so called Judeo-Christian religious wars that apparently were the only causes of war were all ‘back then’ too. Today of course all but a few of the religious wars are Islamic…not that THAT apparently holds any reason for criticism. 

And let’s look at an historical point that is easily proven, but never taught: All the casualties of all the wars through history do not add up to a fraction of the casualties at the hands of countries whose rulers massacred their own citizens in ‘peace time’. Let’s also point out how many of the rulers outlawed religion.  Diehard atheists…those lovable despots.

Atheism and Environmentalism (paganism) are two of the most well organized ‘organized religions’ you will ever find.  In fact they make even the heyday of the corrupt Catholic church seem benign by comparison.  These folks are allowed to bring up every mistake and bad judgment anybody Judeo Christian ever did and use that as proof of why organized religion is more a bane than a blessing…but any mention of the facts that I have mentioned regarding atrocities of  those NOT belonging to organized Judeo Christian above, is always dismissed with that remarkably mature rejoinder: “It wasn’t as bad as what organized religion did.”

Only of course it was often worse.

The Crusades did not just magically appear to terrorize the population. The Ottoman Empire was not just a lovely architectural period. Go visit Turkey and look at the underground structures and hear about the 100 years of torture, rape and terrorization of that rule. Read about the 32 countries that disappeared during that rule and read of how the Crusades appeared after the Ottoman Empire invaded countries that had been Christian and began to attack and claim them for Muslim territory…with no peaceable tolerance for Christians or Jews. In fact women, Christians, Jews and gays all come off with the short end of the stick with Muslim rule. They did then and they do now. If you don’t believe it, go talk to the Muslim women who at great risk have escaped to try and enlighten us about the unbelievable oppression of the Taliban, the hypocrisy of Saudi Arabia, the heinous indignity of Saddam Hussein even, I’m politically incorrect enough to add, the absolutely horrendous rape, torture and massacre executed by those endearing lads that we ‘tortured’ in Guantanamo. Yep, those that suffered the indignities of our few unruly (yes they WERE inappropriate and yes they DID put a slur on the military however the ridiculous moral equivalency insists on doling out equal outrage for  transgressions at the level of  putting graffiti on a wall and stripping prisoners naked, with hacking off a person’s joints in front of their family and raping the women) soldiers. That particular group tramping around in their undies had just a year or so previous been among the Islamofascist soldiers that raped, beheaded, tortured and committed unspeakable atrocities upon the people of Iraq . 

We know this.

Of course writing this in a publication of any great readership I could look forward to a threat of Jihad and pressure from the politically incorrect to tone it down or face prosecution for inappropriate behavior.

I should instead go watch a television program where I’ll know that any drama with a priest or nun is going to depict them as ALWAYS homicidal, sociopathological or venally hypocritical.

ALWAYS.

Why? They know that they’re safe from Jihads because true, practicing Christians either forgive or can expect to have cries of hypocrisy rained down upon them if they ask for a little balance in how they are portrayed.

A “Boys Town” or ‘Bells of St. Mary’s’ would be impossible in this day and age where documentaries about Satan are all too likely to paint him as charismatic, misunderstood and wonderfully charming, demonized at the hands of mean old God and Jesus.

You won’t catch anybody but Judeo Christians hurting children or committing hypocrisy.

If we bothered to teach history that was not rewritten and was not handpicked for most appropriately brainwashing our children we’d see that this love of the ‘planet’ above people is nothing new and the last time paganism was on the rise it led to all sorts of mayhem, including the cheapening of life. Witness the level of extraordinary outrage and legislation perpetrated on the behalf of a slug or a tree, without repercussions, and then try and find equal tolerance for people who are similarly outraged about abortion and euthanasia. Tree huggers get on the View and any of your banal morning broadcast or late night programs, while those seeking some relief from infanticide and population clear cutting can be assured only of a contemptuous byline.

If that sounds familiar, watch “Soylent Green” and tell me which ‘organized religion’ does the most harm.

Atheism and Paganism and Islam all point the fingers at everyone else and claim virtue and ‘right thinking’ for themselves.

Sort of like Hitler.