{"id":62,"date":"2006-12-06T13:28:34","date_gmt":"2006-12-06T17:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=62"},"modified":"2009-09-02T13:03:38","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T17:03:38","slug":"have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/06\/have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too"},"content":{"rendered":"

As ChristianFighterPilot.com has noted before, the fight for Christian religious freedom will sometimes have consequences that not all Christians have fully considered.\u00a0 In the previous article on Wiccans<\/a>, we noted that if Christians (and Buddhists, and Eckankarians, and others) can have symbols on their VA-funded plaques, then Wiccans probably should, too.\u00a0 This may create an uncomfortable position for some Christians, particularly those who sincerely believe that the US should ultimately be a Christian nation.\u00a0 Feelings notwithstanding, when Constitutional protections are won for a Christian, they are also won for those with whom Christians may disagree.<\/p>\n

In a recent article<\/a> on this subject, the Americans United for the Separation of Church and State gleefully pointed out some apparent Christian hypocrisy.\u00a0 A few months ago some Christian Virginia students were refused permission to advertise their Vacation Bible School through a “backpack folder” program that their school used to distribute notices and information.\u00a0 According to The Hook<\/a>, a local paper, the school reversed its decision when the Liberty Counsel<\/a> advised them that it was inappropriate to prohibit religious material.<\/p>\n

Now, one Christian blogger<\/a> has been offended after receiving flyers about upcoming pagan events in her son’s backpack.\u00a0 Another<\/a>, while acknowledging the ‘equal rights’ of any organization to capitalize on the distribution system, views the ‘authorized’ pagan advertising as yet another reason for Christians to pull their kids out of public school.<\/p>\n

The AU is reveling in this ‘scandalous affair’ of Christians being offended by the ‘hard-fought religious freedoms’ won by other Christians.\u00a0 They’ve dubbed it “Falwell’s Flub,” since the Liberty Counsel is affiliated with Jerry Falwell, in spite of the fact that The Hook article (that the AU also quoted) clearly stated that the Liberty Counsel was well aware that others would desire\u2014and would be allowed\u2014to use the same freedoms that the LC won for the Vacation Bible School.\u00a0 The AU article closed with this:<\/p>\n

Your pals Falwell and Staver have opened up this forum, and now everyone gets to use it. Isn’t that what you wanted all along\u2014freedom of religion? That freedom means all religions\u2014even ones you don’t happen to like.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Though the AU sounds pompous and belittles Christianity, it makes a point that the Liberty Counsel\u2014and ChristianFighterPilot.com\u2014have stressed.\u00a0 A religious freedom ‘victory’ for a Christian is also a ‘victory’ for every other faith-type group, and Christians need to understand the impact of that proposition.\u00a0 Christians are certainly free to take offense at and disagree with other groups, but they should strive to ensure that they are informed when they do so.<\/p>\n

Return to<\/em> God and Country<\/a>.
\nGo to<\/em> ChristianFighterPilot.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As ChristianFighterPilot.com has noted before, the fight for Christian religious freedom will sometimes have consequences that not all Christians have fully considered.\u00a0 In the previous article on Wiccans, we noted that if Christians (and Buddhists, and Eckankarians, and others) can have symbols on their VA-funded plaques, then Wiccans probably should, too.\u00a0 This may create an uncomfortable position for some Christians, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-regulations","tag-churchandstate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}