Too many Christians,
not enough lions.

— Richard G.    Mar 18, 08:55 PM

The above is comment #23 on a March 17th, 2009 news report in the Chronicle of Higher Education concerning the Ninth District’s decision on University of California’s Hastings College of the Law to deny recognition to a Christian students’ group because their membership requirements forbids homosexuality: Federal Appeals Court Says Law School Did Not Violate Christian Group’s Rights.

Whether one agrees of disagrees with the Student Group’s decision regarding membership requirements, one cannot help notice the blatant:

• typecasting of a group on the wrong side of a complex and nuanced issue, and
• advocating for a violent, final solution for those with whom one disagrees.

Given that this comment appears on The Chronicle of Higher Education, I wonder how frequently one would encounter this kind of tolerance on campuses?

Historian Philip Jenkins in an interview with Christianity Today, notes:

In no case that I can see does a church simply fade away through indifference. What kills a church is persecution. What kills a church is armed force, usually in the interest of another religion or an antireligious ideology, and sometimes that may mean the destruction or removal of a particular ethnic community that practices Christianity. So churches die by force. They are killed.