Are Christians Second Class Citizens in America?">Are Christians Second Class Citizens in America?

Earlier today I wrote a post about how Chinese pastors are being arrested for “illegally” printing bibles and then handing them out. When I wrote the post I was thinking about how in America we have our religious freedoms because we have thousands of Christian book stores and ministries we can go to in order to get the Bible or other material.

Then I found this story on Agape Press concerning an American couple who have been arrested for praying and preaching in public!

Near the end of the article, the lawyer defending the couple says, The Constitution protects religious expressions, the ADF attorney contends. “Christians are not second-class citizens, and our speech, religious speech, cannot be treated any differently than any other speech,” he says. “Christians should not be arrested for exercising their First Amendment rights.”

It is easy to understand why in a communist country Christians are under attack, but it is hard to understand why in America, Christians who are simply doing what God has commanded them to do, are being arrested for sharing their faith. Unfortunately, this is nothing new to those of us who follow the persecution of Christians. America, over the past several decades, has been slowly snuffing out the Christian worldview. We can no longer pray in school, or declare the biblical belief that absolute truth exists, because we live in a post-modern age where everything is relative and acceptable – except the undeniable truth of Scripture and the claims of Jesus Christ.