The deliberate expunging of Christianity from public life in the US has reached the point where the mere presence of Christian pastors in a school is regarded as “pretty dangerous”. I am quite sure that if Richard Dawkins showed up “just there to be there” he would have been welcomed with open arms, in spite of the fact that he doesn’t appear anywhere without intending to proselytise his disbelief in anything that might help people lead decent lives.
When we were in our former location, St. Hilda’s youth pastor used to visit the local high school to chat with the students; the staff were happy to have him there. Canada, it seems, hasn’t yet reached the level of anti-Christian bigotry prevalent in the US.
From here:
Three volunteer Christian youth pastors have been temporarily banned from a Washington state middle school after parents heard from students that the three were proselytizing during lunch.
KIROTV.com reports the Bainbridge Island School District has hired an outside contractor to conduct a “fact-finding” mission into the allegations concerning the three volunteer cafeteria supervisors.
“We can’t ignore this. There are just too many serious issues to consider here,” board president Mike Spence told KomoNews.com. “That’s pretty dangerous. It’s a pretty slippery slope I guess I would say.”
Meanwhile, one of the volunteers denied the allegations.
“The only time church may have come in is when they say, ‘What do you do?’ my response is, ‘I’m a youth pastor.’ Even sometimes say I’m a leader because most of the kids don’t know what a youth pastor is,” said Danny Smith.
“I don’t wanna defend myself, I want to defend my motives. It’s not about me, it’s about why I’m there. It’s not for evangelizing and it’s not for proselytizing or recruiting, but it’s just there to be there.”
The attack of the atheistic left upon the church is as unrelenting here as in all places they get power or influence. Canada, as you point out, is just a bit behind schedule! The pattern of assault though for North America is set; politically correct intimidation, one sided interpretations of equality laws, and sneering outright bigoted ridicule all bound together in a well orchestrated campaign to sway public opinion. Great courage is needed to stand up to them while victories are increasingly rare. It would not surprise me at all, once Christians have been completely driven from the public sphere (as per the example above), that some activist launches a test case to have all church buildings bulldozed because of the “irreparable harm” done to them by walking past one. And they will win. Then the dismemberment of individual Christian families can truly begin in earnest. Then the “dangerous” influence of Christ can be wiped out once and for all to the joy of all those like this Washington school board and their fellow travellers.
The school board may be afraid that if it allows Christian youth pastors in schools then they will not have the right to prohibit Muslims and others from doing the same thing.
Actually I think that you are giving these anti-theists a bit too much credit. My own personal opinion is that they are so obsessed with crushing Christianity that they are oblivious to the Muslims. They hope that once Christianity has been defeated that that will be it. They do not realize that the spiritual vacuum that will be left by the collapse of Christianity will in fact be filled by the Muslim Faith. And if these anti-theists think that they have had anything of a fight against us Christians then they will be in for a big surprise once the Muslims start to assert themselves.
You are right about that. For a group that is so opposed to ‘all’ religion they do seem remarkably silent in offering anti-Islamic commentary. Especially when compared to the daily vitriol directed at Christians.