I had to laugh when I read Philocrates' characterization of Ricky Scarborough's "War on Christians and the Values Voters in 2006" two-day conference recently:

"Paranoid Christian Association meets, complains about powerlessness"

Alan Cooperman of the Washington Post covered the story of the conference as 'War' on Christians Is Alleged' Here are a few choice bits from Cooperman's piece:

To some outsiders, it illuminated the paranoia of the Christian right.

"Certainly religious persecution existed in our history, but to claim that these examples amount to religious persecution disrespects the experiences of people who have been jailed and died because of their faith," said K. Hollyn Hollman, general counsel of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty.

"This is a skirmish over religious pluralism, and the inclination to see it as a war against Christianity strikes me as a spoiled-brat response by Christians who have always enjoyed the privileges of a majority position," said the Rev. Robert M. Franklin, a minister in the Church of God in Christ and professor of social ethics at Emory University.....

....Jewish speaker, Michael Horowitz, told the conference that the "Christian decency of this country" saved him from becoming "a bar of soap" in Nazi Germany.

"You guys have become the Jews of the 21st century," said Horowitz, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute

This stuff just parodies itself.

by Bruce Wilson on Thu Mar 30, 2006 at 06:42:42 PM EST