While we continue to increase our tolerance for the intolerant and allow Muslims to gain more influence here in religiously free America, will we explain to them yet again that our constitution does not afford them the right not to be offended? Or will we ban piggy banks, too, so they don't get their burkas in a bunch?
Speaking of piggy banks, someone smashed in my mom's car window to steal my nieces' which were in the back of the car en route to the bank. Seriously. WTF?
>It is always the Christians and the westerners that have to change<
Why is that? It seems that's ALWAYS the case if any group that doesn't fit either of these categories is "offended".
In my own experience, if I, as a Christian and a conservative, question someone or make a negative comment regarding a person's belief or non-belief, or their lifestyle based on that, I am condemned for being judgemental, arrogant, and offensive. At the same time, if someone questions or ridicules my own belief or values and lifestyle choices that are based on Christian teaching or conservatism, they are being ________? Can someone fill in the blank for me, please, because it seems it's not the same standard, for some reason. We are expected to be tolerant, yet if we speak out against or for our own values, we are not tolerated. It's puzzling to me, and frustrating.
Posted by: lori | April 05, 2006 at 05:37 PM