intolerance

    You know...These past few weeks, months even, have been exhausting. Because of school, but not because of the work. Because of the people, and the conversations I have been hearing. I am getting tired of the intolerance of Christianity. Of Religion in general. I keep hearing about how people hate us for our religion, and how its our fault for everything. And, Just a few minutes ago from when I am writing this, I heard someone who I used to think of as a friend, say that the Holocaust was because of Christianity! That Hitler was a Christian, and that's why he was killing the Jews. This is getting so tiring. Everyone says that Christianity needs to be more Tolerant towards people, but I want to ask you, Why should we be, if they aren't going to be tolerant towards us. As we say, practice what you preach. For once, I would like to be able to Pray without fear in my school. To read my Bible in school. To be able to openly talk to my friend about my Religion, without fear of being sent to the office for "Forcing my Religion upon others." I say, If my friends want to hear about it, and ask me about it, I should be able to tell them the good word of the Bible. I still do. I break the rules doing that, and So I have fear, but, I won't let it hold me back from answering my friends questions. However, here is a story, true story, about what happened to me at my school, because of my religion. I had said that I don't approve of Homosexuality, and someone had twisted it around, somehow, to that I hate them, and they deserve to die. Not even close to what I said. At the time, one of my friends was a Homosexual. I had been trying to slowly tell them what the Bible says about it,  but when she heard it, she attacked me. Literally attacked me. She hit me, yelled at me, sent me to the office. She got in slight trouble for beating me, but that's it. I nearly got suspended, but the office knew me, and listened to what I said, and believed me. But my danger was intolerance. That's what they told me. I could have been suspended for Intolerance of Homosexuality, and for "hate speech". The next day, however, All the people who had been angry at me were talking about how they, and I quote, "Hate Christianity. All Christians need to die. Lets go kill them" I go to the office after a couple days of this, and tell them. You know what? They said they can do NOTHING about it. They can't get involved with anything religious. That night I read the code of conduct, under the bullying section, and in the Intolerance, Religion is included. They chose not to do anything, simple because it was religious, even though it was against the rules! Intolerance. We face it everyday. If we don't fight for our rights more, make our voices be heard in the government, I fear that soon our religion will be illegal!