These are just a few words that have made their way either out of Sacred Scripture and teaching, or taken from there with an extra word or two added, and are now part of common language. When these words first starting taking off, they were heavily censored and condemned. Now they are on not only late-night television shows, prime-time shows without censors but even morning shows without apologies!
Today, the Christian seems to be either the minority, or far too silent, allowing things to just past. We are hardly seen nor heard, and when those few speak up, they are soon silenced by some other more pressing story such as a major issue in the Islamic community.
Has the West become too secular? That, I am sure of. Most who believe in God either don't practice, don't show or admit it, only live for God for that one hour on Sunday, then forget it, like faith were just a weekly fix of Glee.
Sure we have some things right, for instance we live in decent worlds, have decent rights to basically anything we need at any stage of our lives etc;. You have a look at the countries where they are extremely religious, particularly the Middle Eastern Islamic States, and they take things to the extreme, interpret the scripture wrongly, kill each-other... the list goes on.
Then you see the Muslim in Australia or any other Western country. They may or may not be persecuted for the fact, but as soon as someone uses Muhammad's name in vain, desecrate the Holy Qu'ran or disrespect Islam and its traditions any way, then it is a different story - arms out across Australia for this - while the Priest who was kidnapped, held at ransom and beaten was forgotton soon after, not even caring for his ordeal.
I'm not saying one shouldn't feel sorry for the Muslim, but what I am saying is that people need to be more sensitive towards Christianity. If it weren't for Christianity, think of just how many people in Australia for instance would collapse? The education system would be hardly as good as it is, nor would the medical system. Welfare would be basically nothing but Centrelink - no St. Vincent de Paul Society, no fully-church-funded or partially-drug-funded rehabs and detox. No support for anyone of anything. Think about that next time you bag a Christian.
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