Why is it okay to attack God, Christians?

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Maureen Dowd, the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the New York Times, regularly blasts Christians as intolerant zealots who seek to return the United States to the Dark Ages.

And the most respected magazines in America attack the Christian faith with such ferocity—some comparing Christians to members of the Taliban—that evangelicals and Catholics cannot help but feel under siege by America’s cultural elite.

The good news is that America’s cultural heritage allows such intolerance towards men and women of faith—even if that heritage was steeped in a Judeo-Christian tradition that welcomes dissent that the Taliban would answer with torture and executions.

The bad news for all is a small group of cultural elitists in publishing houses, movie studios and network offices has decided that the beliefs of millions of Christians is an inviting target for big profits.

More Americans need to focus on the origins of this religious intolerance and examine the dangers of an intellectual movement that seeks to marginalize over 100 million Americans whose only offense is following the 2,000-year-old teachings of a carpenter named Jesus.

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