Why is Christianity Really Under Attack?

Over the last 50 years, attacks against Christianity have increased. Initially, I believed that it wasn’t just Christianity. I thought that all religion was under attack. I blamed this on a general trend for society to belief that it did not need a higher power. People were simply deciding to go it alone. However, a recent scan of “religious news” headlines shows a different trend. It is not religion at all that is under attack. It is Christianity. Why is Christianity really under attack?

What prompted me to ask this question? A search of today’s tweets made me start questioning why Christianity is under attack while other religions are not.

• Religion News tweeted, “What to do if Westboro hate group shows up on your doorstep: http://bit.ly/1hjTPPf #religion +http://bit.ly/WestboroHateCult …” In fact, Westboro Baptist were mentioned in multiple news stories.

• Religion News also vilified Christian Counselors, “Christian counsellors ban therapy aimed at 'converting' gay patients: http://bit.ly/1hjTFY8 #religion #LGBT +http://bit.ly/LGBTandReligion” They didn’t even spell counselors right.

• Huffington Post decides that a Christian preacher cutting church short for football is news. “WATCH: Pastor leads fastest Sunday service ever because of. what else.. football http://huff.to/1cX1rFw”

These stories did not surprise me. Christianity has been under attack for awhile. What got my attention were other religions being reported in a positive manner.

• Religion News reports a positive story about Wicca, ” Not a broomstick in sight: Meet the modern-day witches: http://dailym.ai/L3EEPi #religion +http://bit.ly/WiccaWitchcraft”

• Huffington Post reports about observing the birth of the prophet Mohammed. “Observing the birth of the Prophet Muhammad http://huff.to/1djqxPW”

• While open Christian prayer is being vilified in schools and workplaces, Huffington Post will help you learn from a Buddhist. “WATCh: Buddhist teacher Sharon Salzberg shares how to find real happiness at work http://huff.to/19TktyJ”

Why is Christianity being treated so differently then other religions? Answering this question requires that we look at the teachings of these different religions.

Christianity teaches personal responsibility. It teaches that we all have the right and the freedom to make our own choices. At the same time, we have the right and the freedom to live with the consequences of our choices. It is not anyone else’s responsibility to bail us out. It is especially not the government’s responsibility to hold a gun to someone else’s head and make them bail us out.

Christianity teaches that we should care about our fellow man. Many commandments given by God are meant to instill in us a love for our fellow human beings. We are told to do unto others as we would have them do unto us. We are requested to give of our means freely. That money is then used to help people in the community.

Christianity teaches us that right and wrong are not abstract concepts. Right and wrong are set forth by our creator. Morality is not determined by the whims of society at any moment in time. Right and wrong have been the same for centuries. This will not change. What was right and wrong yesterday, will be today, and will be tomorrow.

Now, let’s compare these teachings to some of the religions that are being portrayed positively.

• Wicca uses a very loose moral code. One Wiccan that I used to work with described his moral code as “Do no harm but do whatever you want”. I warned our boss at the time that such believes leads to an unstable person. They are left with being able to do anything they can justify in their own minds. Humans can justify a lot of things.

• Muslims believe that religion and government should go hand-in-hand. All laws should be used to further Muslim beliefs. If you are not Muslim then you are an infidel. Infidels should either be killed or taxed into submission. Or in other words, they believe in big government.

• Among their many beliefs, Buddhists believe that we should turn back the clock on progress. To quote one of their websites, “In the process of producing the things we feel will make us happy, we have polluted our environment to such an extent that the very air we breathe and the water we drink now threaten our health and well-being. We love the freedom and independence a car can give us, but the cost in accidents and environmental destruction is enormous.”

Contemplating on these different beliefs, I saw the real reason that Christianity is under attack. Christianity stands in the way of humans that simply want to gain power. A person that does not answer to anything of this world is not afraid of humans that simply want to rule over him. A central welfare system allows people to continue behaving badly. If someone is more worried about how many times he can get laid then being productive then he is more controllable. Christians believe in freedom. This leads us to believe in the smallest government possible. In short, if you are in power and want more power then you need to get Christians out of your way. Could this be the real reason that Christianity is under attack?