Biden proclaims “Transgender Day of Visibility” on Easter

[Ineva]

yay, a n o t h e r reason to hate this horrid guy.

Another example of Christophobia from America, how surpising

Would be better if it was the day after

How dare the American government oppress the Christians who just want to live their life by hating trans people? What evil is this that they choose to recognize that trans people exist? (/s)

It’s not Christophobia. Christophobia does not exist in the United States on a large scale. It is just anti-hatred, which is the most Christian thing I can think of.

EDIT: a correction that hatred is not Christian (though I do risk falling into “No True Scotsman” here), but rather than being peaceful and against hatred here. Christ died on the cross and was persecuted, and even at the point of death chose peace and love over hatred.

In fairness to Etwepe's point, there certainly has been a rise in anti-Christian and anti-religious sentiment these past few years. But that's for a different thread, I'd say.

[Ifreann]

How dare the American government oppress the Christians who just want to live their life by hating trans people? What evil is this that they choose to recognize that trans people exist? (/s)

It’s not Christophobia. Christophobia does not exist in the United States on a large scale. It is just anti-hatred, which is the most Christian thing I can think of.

EDIT: a correction that hatred is not Christian (though I do risk falling into “No True Scotsman” here), but rather than being peaceful and against hatred here. Christ died on the cross and was persecuted, and even at the point of death chose peace and love over hatred.

In fairness to Etwepe's point, there certainly has been a rise in anti-Christian and anti-religious sentiment these past few years. But that's for a different thread, I'd say.

There hasn't, though.

[Rosartemis]

How dare the American government oppress the Christians who just want to live their life by hating trans people? What evil is this that they choose to recognize that trans people exist? (/s)

It’s not Christophobia. Christophobia does not exist in the United States on a large scale. It is just anti-hatred, which is the most Christian thing I can think of.

EDIT: a correction that hatred is not Christian (though I do risk falling into “No True Scotsman” here), but rather than being peaceful and against hatred here. Christ died on the cross and was persecuted, and even at the point of death chose peace and love over hatred.

In fairness to Etwepe's point, there certainly has been a rise in anti-Christian and anti-religious sentiment these past few years. But that's for a different thread, I'd say.

Not to the extent that Christian holidays are being "overshadowed" by LGBT ones, as Etwepe implied. Such sentiments stem from the systemic injustices that can (but not inherently, of course) be perpetuated by religion and religious institutions. However, it has never been the objective of the LGBT community to undermine days of tolerance, no, that's a job for radical conservatives.

[Ineva]

In fairness to Etwepe's point, there certainly has been a rise in anti-Christian and anti-religious sentiment these past few years. But that's for a different thread, I'd say.

Not to the extent that Christian holidays are being "overshadowed" by LGBT ones, as Etwepe implied. Such sentiments stem from the systemic injustices that can (but not inherently, of course) be perpetuated by religion and religious institutions. However, it has never been the objective of the LGBT community to undermine days of tolerance, no, that's a job for radical conservatives.

I'm certainly inclined to agree with the under-lined: Not to that extent, yes.

[Rusozak]

How dare the American government oppress the Christians who just want to live their life by hating trans people? What evil is this that they choose to recognize that trans people exist? (/s)

It’s not Christophobia. Christophobia does not exist in the United States on a large scale. It is just anti-hatred, which is the most Christian thing I can think of.

EDIT: a correction that hatred is not Christian (though I do risk falling into “No True Scotsman” here), but rather than being peaceful and against hatred here. Christ died on the cross and was persecuted, and even at the point of death chose peace and love over hatred.

In fairness to Etwepe's point, there certainly has been a rise in anti-Christian and anti-religious sentiment these past few years. But that's for a different thread, I'd say.

Except there is no point. This is all nonsense. It's like saying Christians are being oppressed because Christmas happens during Hanukkah sometimes, and getting mad at the President for wishing someone a happy Hanukkah as though he invented the holiday just to spite Christmas.

[Kostane]

How dare the American government oppress the Christians who just want to live their life by hating trans people? What evil is this that they choose to recognize that trans people exist? (/s)

It’s not Christophobia. Christophobia does not exist in the United States on a large scale. It is just anti-hatred, which is the most Christian thing I can think of.

EDIT: a correction that hatred is not Christian (though I do risk falling into “No True Scotsman” here), but rather than being peaceful and against hatred here. Christ died on the cross and was persecuted, and even at the point of death chose peace and love over hatred.

In fairness to Etwepe's point, there certainly has been a rise in anti-Christian and anti-religious sentiment these past few years. But that's for a different thread, I'd say.

Not systematically at the government level. It’s anti-theists, who constitute a minority of atheists and have no political power due to the fact that there’s still a large majority of the American population. Anti-Christian sentiment is based around the multiple scandals and is perfectly reasonable. It’s pretty similar to how the anti-Christian sentiment of the Protestant Reformation was reasonable — there’s problems with the structure of the Church.

[Hekp]

You as a mod, saying that Christian events are "Believed to be Historical events". Dont know whether you are trying to flame. Calling Christian holidays saying that they may be "historical" isn't something you should say.

Do you have quantifiable evidence Jesus rose from the dead?

Well, I suppose you could count the multitude of records from after his death.

[Hekp]

Things don't make sense with this, but really, easter sunday you want to have something like this? I thought you people at least knew to avoid days that could have easter on them since that can cause an outrage... and sure enough. Here we are.

Unlike Easter, Transgender Day of Visibility is on the same date every year. So why is it the LGBTIQ+ community's problem that Easter coincides with it?

If Christians can't learn to share, they should pick a consistent date for Easter - I doubt Jesus was crucified on a different day each year...

It's specifically made so that it falls on a Sunday.

[Plus Nova Imperii]

I detest holidays where the date is different every year because stuff like this always happens. I know the date is based on the Hebrew calendar, but still.

[Nantoraka]

In fairness to Etwepe's point, there certainly has been a rise in anti-Christian and anti-religious sentiment these past few years. But that's for a different thread, I'd say.

There hasn't, though.

You don't think the declining importance of Christianity on the world stage as atheism becomes more and more prevalent among young generations doesn't come wrapped up with growing anti-Christian and anti-religious sentiment?

[Ineva]

In fairness to Etwepe's point, there certainly has been a rise in anti-Christian and anti-religious sentiment these past few years. But that's for a different thread, I'd say.

Except there is no point. This is all nonsense. It's like saying Christians are being oppressed because Christmas happens during Hanukkah sometimes, and getting mad at the President for wishing someone a happy Hanukkah as though he invented the holiday just to spite Christmas.

I'm speaking out-side of the context of holidays. I do not see it that Biden's observance of the transgender holiday was a jab against Christianity.

[Kostane]

There hasn't, though.

You don't think the declining importance of Christianity on the world stage as atheism becomes more and more prevalent among young generations doesn't come wrapped up with growing anti-Christian and anti-religious sentiment?

Nope. It is not anti-Christian nor anti-religious in the same way that the declining power of Russia is not anti-Russian. The decline of a religion is not anti-religious. There’s plenty of atheists that are tolerant of religion.

[Necroghastia]

Unlike Easter, Transgender Day of Visibility is on the same date every year. So why is it the LGBTIQ+ community's problem that Easter coincides with it?

If Christians can't learn to share, they should pick a consistent date for Easter - I doubt Jesus was crucified on a different day each year...

It's specifically made so that it falls on a Sunday.

That's still not a consistent day, though. As we have discussed, this year it's March 31st, next year it's April 20th.

[Ineva]

You don't think the declining importance of Christianity on the world stage as atheism becomes more and more prevalent among young generations doesn't come wrapped up with growing anti-Christian and anti-religious sentiment?

Nope. It is not anti-Christian nor anti-religious in the same way that the declining power of Russia is not anti-Russian. The decline of a religion is not anti-religious. There’s plenty of atheists that are tolerant of religion.

It's not necessarily equating atheism with anti-religion so much as it is correlating the two. I think it's fair to say that with the decline or Russian influence, there's certainly been a rise in anti-Russian sentiment. Similar goes for Christianity and religion as well.

[Etwepe]

yay, a n o t h e r reason to hate this horrid guy.

Another example of Christophobia from America, how surpising

Would be better if it was the day after

How dare the American government oppress the Christians who just want to live their life by hating trans people? What evil is this that they choose to recognize that trans people exist? (/s)

It’s not Christophobia. Christophobia does not exist in the United States on a large scale. It is just anti-hatred, which is the most Christian thing I can think of.

EDIT: a correction that hatred is not Christian (though I do risk falling into “No True Scotsman” here), but rather than being peaceful and against hatred here. Christ died on the cross and was persecuted, and even at the point of death chose peace and love over hatred.

Christians don't hate trans people, the Bible tells us to "love your enemies", their making up words like "homophobe" and "transphobe" to call people who don't support it

I just don't like the fact their trying to push the LGBTQIA+whateverelse onto everything; I mean there's multiple days, a month, a whole field of study, multiple parades and whatever else.


They want all these, but can't define what a woman is

They don't need a trans day of visibility becuase you can see the 5 feet away wavin their 3,590,765 pride flags and their pink and purple hair, so they are visible without the national day

[Bayshire]

Once again, it is also Cesar Chavez Day. The year is littered with a variety of insignificant days that you don't have to pay attention if you don't want to.

[Pasong Tirad]

Heck yeah.

[Rosartemis]

There hasn't, though.

You don't think the declining importance of Christianity on the world stage as atheism becomes more and more prevalent among young generations doesn't come wrapped up with growing anti-Christian and anti-religious sentiment?

The declining importance of Christianity on the world stage due to the rise of atheism among younger generations isn't solely indicative of growing anti-Christian or anti-religious sentiment. While it's not unheard of, the distinction here is that socially progressive beliefs can and often lead to more secular stances, which isn't inherently negative. The usage of "anti-Christian and anti-religious sentiment" in this context doesn't necessarily signify disdain for the faith itself. Rather, it's a disagreement with how the faith has been manipulated by intolerant ideologues to promote and perpetuate a culture of intolerance in society. It's no secret that Christianity has (and is still) been used to push homophobic and transphobic beliefs.

[Tangatarehua]

I think the timing is rather poor taste and it reeks of tokenism given that there's already "pride month" for this sort of virtue signalling, but whatever, it doesn't really affect me.

Ultimately it's just another desperate attempt by a failing President to shore up approval from a base that he knows he only has tepid support from. A year from now he won't be President and this won't matter.

[Pale Dawn]

I never heard of trans visability day before though it apparently started in 09 . I think the fact that it falls on Easter this year is the only reason anyone noticed it.

[Kostane]

Nope. It is not anti-Christian nor anti-religious in the same way that the declining power of Russia is not anti-Russian. The decline of a religion is not anti-religious. There’s plenty of atheists that are tolerant of religion.

It's not necessarily equating atheism with anti-religion so much as it is correlating the two. I think it's fair to say that with the decline or Russian influence, there's certainly been a rise in anti-Russian sentiment. Similar goes for Christianity and religion as well.

You think there are more anti-Russians now then at the height of the Cold War when the Soviet Union was at its peak? Okay, I disagree.

People think that there’s a rise in anti-religion because you can’t do stuff because the Bible said so. That’s secularism, which is not anti-religious. The rise of secular atheism is not correlated to the rise of institutionalized anti-religious sentiment. I understand what you are saying, but it is far different from the conspiracy theory that the government is controlled by some communists who want to destroy the Christian heritage that America totally has. Christianity is declining, that doesn’t mean the government is anti-religious.

[Thal Dorthat]

trans rights are human rights need i say more

plus tdov has always been march 31st

blame the moon not tdov

[Juansonia]

It's specifically made so that it falls on a Sunday.

That's still not a consistent day, though. As we have discussed, this year it's March 31st, next year it's April 20th.

Will Christians complain about their holy day being co-opted by Hitler smoking a joint in Columbine?

[Necroghastia]

How dare the American government oppress the Christians who just want to live their life by hating trans people? What evil is this that they choose to recognize that trans people exist? (/s)

It’s not Christophobia. Christophobia does not exist in the United States on a large scale. It is just anti-hatred, which is the most Christian thing I can think of.

EDIT: a correction that hatred is not Christian (though I do risk falling into “No True Scotsman” here), but rather than being peaceful and against hatred here. Christ died on the cross and was persecuted, and even at the point of death chose peace and love over hatred.

Christians don't hate trans people, the Bible tells us to "love your enemies",

How are trans people your enemies?

their making up words like "homophobe" and "transphobe" to call people who don't support it

Those words are no more made up than any others.

I just don't like the fact their trying to push the LGBTQIA+whateverelse onto everything; I mean there's multiple days, a month, a whole field of study, multiple parades and whatever else.

You could say the same thing about anything with any significant cultural impact. Christianity or the military, for example.

They want all these, but can't define what a woman is

Galatians 3:28

They don't need a trans day of visibility becuase you can see the 5 feet away wavin their 3,590,765 pride flags and their pink and purple hair, so they are visible without the national day

The day of visibility is precisely because of ignorance such as is on display here.

[Hekp]

In fairness to Etwepe's point, there certainly has been a rise in anti-Christian and anti-religious sentiment these past few years. But that's for a different thread, I'd say.

There hasn't, though.

Well, obviously there has been. I can't say for Christianity, but for religion, yes.
Many Jews and Muslims have been experiencing discrimination in America following the whole October 7th attack.