Opposition to Christianity

Many individuals, groups, and even cultural movements in modern times are antichristian. This means they actively seek to attack, undermine, and denigrate Christians and the Christian faith, while deceiving the public about the nature of Christianity, its heritage, and accomplishments.

Characteristics

Antichristians dismiss the part that the Christian tradition played in the rapid development of European science, culture, and commerce, especially the scientific revolution. The also mock any and all Christians as being intellectually inferior, even if they are men of renowned intellectual or scientific ability, such as Francis Collins.

Africa

Intense battles -- often bloody pitched battles--pit Christians against Muslims in many African countries, especially Sudan and Nigeria.

United States

Tensions between Christians and Jews were eased with the adoption of the theme of a common "Judaeo-Christian identity. Fundamentalist Protestants for theological rasons have emerged as the strongest supporters of Israel, which eased tensions somewhat between the Jewish community and Fundamentalists.

In 1989, Christian conservatives attempted to reframe the debate over the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and federal funding for the arts from waste to immorality by attacking grants for 'anti-Christian' and 'homoerotic' art. The Rev. Donald Wildmon of the American Family Association initiated the campaign against "Piss Christ and the NEA, warning that "the bias and bigotry against Christians, which has dominated television and movies for the last decade or more, has now moved over to the art museums". The Christian Coalition placed a full-page ad in the Washington Post warning Congress that taxpayers would punish them for "wasting their hard-earned money to promote sodomy, child pornography, and attacks on Jesus Christ. Patrick Buchanan warned that "America's art and culture are, more and more, openly anti-Christian, anti-American, nihilistic," and called for conservatives to lead "a cultural revolution". in a 1992 campaign commercial, Buchanan blamed the George H. W. Bush administration for funding "so-called art that has glorified homosexuality, exploited children and perverted the image of Jesus Christ".

Secularism

Stressing the Separation of Church and State, secularists have fought counrt battles to remove prayer from public schools, deny the nation's Christian heritage and outlaw the display of the Ten Commandments in courts of law, and even replace the term "Merry Christmas" with "Happy Holidays," to the chagrin of Bill O'Reilly.

Examples

Antichristian groups include:

• Communists
• Strong atheists and antitheists
• Secular humanists
• Secularists who have removed school prayer, the Ten Commandments from courthouses, and actively attack the heavily Christian homeschool movement

Infamous antichristians include:

• Charles Darwin
• Richard Dawkins
• Sigmund Freud
• Sam Harris
• Christopher Hitchens
• Osama bin Laden
• Karl Marx
• PZ Myers
• Joseph Stalin

External Links

• DiscoverTheNetworks.org - Anti-Christian bias in Academia