To cry “poor bugger me” to whinge and whine, or draw attention to one’s apparent misfortune, usually unjustified.
The way some American fundamentalist Christians whine, anyone would think that Christians were being dragged from their homes and down to the local football arena to be fed to the Lions.
Where does this persecution complex come from? Western Chrstians I argue face no real persecution, a look at Persecution.org, a christian site tracking persecution of Christians world wide. It does not list North America and has no reported cases for the European Union.
You have a Fundamentalist Christian as the leader of you country, one could argue that you couldn’t have it any better.
Sure recently in the West we have seen the rise of vocal atheism, criticisms of religion(not just Christian by the way) this is NOT persecution.
Persecution = is persistent mistreatment or harasment of an individual/group by another group.
In fact with your picketing of abortion clinics, and gay rights events, it could be argued that persecution in the US stems from Fundamentalist believers.
American fundamentalist christians would have to be some of the richest and politically powerful christians on the planet and it disgusts me that you even have the gall to complain when christians and other ethnic/racial/religious minorities in other countries actually have to face torture/death for their beliefs.
Bring back the lions? No just some common sense and a wider perspective and understanding of the world.
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It kills me how the people in the USA who are the majority and doing the persecution are the ones crying foul.
I vote for the lions
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I know, and think, I live in the US and have to deal with these whiny, hypocritical bastards!
Hey Joe,
Good to see you around.
Poodles : )
Trina,
We have a faith based party here in Australia, its a minor party that I hope is voted in to insignifiance in the next month or so.
They wouldn’t feel so persecuted if we didn’t keep trying to outlaw Christmas!
We are outlawing Christmas? I didn’t get the memo.
I’d like to see the Lions!
Politicians and pundits on the right use wedge issues like Christmas etc… to make the wing-nuts go into a frenzy.
Then they cry “we’re being persecuted!”
We are outlawing Christmas? I didn’t get the memo.
Haven’t you heard? WorldNetDaily is even selling “Xmas Defense Kits” . . .
That extreme minority party in Aus scares me a bit Sean, because they seem to have a lot more clout with the two main parties than is justified by their numbers alone. Both of the big boys like to play the high moral ground card a lot and by sucking up to religion they seem to be able to do it without a lot of criticism. It’s scary, particularly with Rudd being a god botherer, Johnny happy to say he likes god if it brings votes and fits in with conservative values and worst of all that Tony effing Abbott and his high handed, holier than thou arrogance toward anyone who is stupid enough to not embrace his fundamental and distorted view of the world.
Tex,
I think the general lax Aussie attitude to politics and religion is a double edged sword. It means for the most part that there is not too much fuss, if you want to believe in god and make the pastor richer then that’s okay. Its this same tendency though that allows secretive and organised fringe groups to insinuate themselves in power structures.