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Can anyone name a non-Christian country where the majority religion allows itself to be vilified, but where all the minority religions are treated with great respect & deference?

Great Britain comes to mind, but then they're facing the same basic statist goliath we are here in America. I can't really say how oppressed or vilified Christians in GB feel: most of the British Christians I know (and this is somewhat true of Aussies and Kiwis) don't seem to expect anything different. I guess they're much more accepting of secularism and what that means for them.

Europe is interesting because Jews have suffered for centuries and right now is almost open season on Jews. Muslims, on the other hand, are definitely treated deferentially in most of Europe, I think. But no country in Europe has the same spiritual heritage that America has. They all have their spiritual roots, but nothing that really compares to America. That makes any anti-Christian expressions in popular culture particularly hard to take for American Christians who know their own history (as opposed to what passes for history in public schools today).

12 posted on 08/11/2002 5:40:42 PM PDT by Mr. Mulliner
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13 posted on 08/11/2002 7:01:22 PM PDT by Tribune7
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