Posted by
Tim on Monday, April 13, 2009 10:43:18 PM
I have rarely seen a more egregious example of discrimination against and intolerance of Christianity than an incident that occurred at Christmas time in 2007 at the College of Alameda, as reported by WorldNetDaily. The college threatened to suspend two students simply because one of them dared to pray for a sick professor privately in her office with her consent. Another professor walked in on them while they were praying and apparently reported the "ghastly" incident to the college administration. A few days later, that student and a friend received a letter from the college accusing them of "disruptive or insulting behavior" and "willful disobedience." The student who was not present for the private, but somehow "disruptive" prayer time appears to have been threatened by the college simply because she later joined the perpetrator outside of the professor's office. The two students are currently defending themselves with a Federal lawsuit against the college.
It is a sad day in America when a student cannot engage in consensual, private prayer with a sick professor without being threatened with suspension. This is most certainly illegal religious harassment. These kinds of discriminatory incidents are rapidly increasing in post-Christian America. As a evangelical Christian, I am beginning to feel like a pariah in the country my Christian forebears founded. The postmodernists, atheists, secularists and liberal "Christian" imposters don't want us to manifest our faith anywhere outside of our home or church. Actually, even those places are increasingly under threat. For example, people have been accused of zoning violations for having a Bible study in their private home, while a book club meeting in the neighborhood is ignored. Churches have been threatened with the revocation of their income tax exemption for daring to take a politically incorrect stand on a ballot referendum issue the Bible clearly addresses, such as homosexuality and abortion.
With each passing day, the climate for biblical Christians in America is slouching closer and closer toward First Century-style persecution.