You’ve likely heard the cliché before:
“Christians aren’t discriminated against! But when you’re used to special treatment, equal treatment feels like discrimination!”
Ooh!
Tell me more about this special treatment that Christianity gets!
No, go on, tell me. Don’t be shy. I want to wave my crucifix around and get something awesome.
Having been an atheist and now a Christian, I have no idea what special treatment Christians supposedly get. You can’t talk about the tax exemptions churches get – for one thing, all religious organisations get that. For another, that only helps me because I know my donations go to my church, not my government.
Christians don’t get privileges under the law. We aren’t portrayed well in popular culture – in fact, Christianity is the one faith the woke folk in charge have the balls to go after. Well, maybe Judaism too these days, and that only took a brutal genocide to earn that.
Christianity receives no special treatment.
It sure as manure deserves it, though.
Imagine two men stranded on a desert island. Is it fair to split the coconuts equally between them? Yes. But what if one of the men gathers all the coconuts, builds a water catchment system out of fronds and maintains their signal fire. Meanwhile, the other guy does nothing but complain about what a bad job the first guy’s doing, while occasionally stealing coconut water from the first guy when he passes out from exhaustion.
In that case, equal coconuts is unfair. One of them is doing all the work to keep them both alive and get rescued. The other is a parasite. They’re not equal by effort or impact, so why should they get equal coconuts?
And that’s why Christianity really does deserve special treatment. It’s one of the pillars of the greatest civilisations the world has ever seen. That’s no coincidence. A Christian society has better people and better citizens.
Yes, yes, I know. Some Christians are bad people. Some non-Christians are good. If you’re incapable of generalising, then please don’t vote – you’re not qualified to do so.
This is generally how the world works. If you’re a person of character and you do better deeds, you’ll get more rewards. It’s a common way of moving from rags to riches – study, work hard and have integrity.
Be better and you’ll earn more.
It’s the closest thing to a guarantee of success you’ll ever find.
And if I’m wrong? Then you’ll just have to endure being a righteous gentleman who can sleep well at night.
But how?
How do you move from wherever you are to being the sort of man who attracts better things?
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