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Reblogged from azspot
Is There A Christian Privilege?

steampunkanachronism:

savagemike:

azspot:

Like male privilege, White privilege, and the like, the easiest way to recognize Christian privilege is probably by considering a few examples.

  • An American Christian can affix a Jesus fish to his or her car without having to give vandalism a second thought. And yet, I do not get to place any sort of symbol promoting science, reason, or atheism on my car for fear of vandalism or assault. The same goes for t-shirts.
  • The state of Florida actually exempts faith-based day-care centers from state inspection and licensing while requiring both of secular day-care centers.
  • Christian billboards are commonplace, but atheist billboards are typically met with vandalism, protests, and calls to the billboard owner.
  • Public school teachers may come under fire for criticizing religion but are expected to criticize every other form of idiocy.

Oh, MAN! There is more Christian privilege than the rest of the lot combined. 

At least, around here.

(Then again, racism is essentially non-present here; in its stead, there is something more like ‘ethnicism’, which—HA!—happens to have a peculiarly relevant meaning :P But in my meaning, I refer only to the slight nationalism which forms around culture here—an ethnic pride, and a consequent xenophobia.)

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    well we get billboards and stuff, and you guys NEVER SHUT UP so i think were even
  5. abcsoupdot reblogged this from azspot and added:
    Eerie. So I was actually thinking of writing a post regarding something similar but was going to toss the idea aside...
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    Oh, MAN! There is more Christian privilege than the rest of the lot combined. At least, around here. (Then again, racism...
  12. squashed said: Isn’t that last point where this all goes wrong? Wearing a “Jesus Loves Me” T-shirt is a whole lot less likely to draw fire than a “You Christians all suck” T-shirt. But they’re not equivalent T-shirts.
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