Confucius christianity?

I am stuck reading one of my liberal friends five minutes of hate because they get posted on my facebook page.

Today's five minutes of hate is ridiculing Christians, a common target. Why? Well, a self proclaimed atheist is bragging she won't take the oath of office on the bible, and the comments include saying it's terrible for a non Christian to be forced to do it.

The problem, of course, is that there is no law that the oath of office has to be taken on the bible. Indeed, since Quakers aren't allowed to take oaths, it is a long tradition that one can "affirm" rather than "swear" to uphold the constitution. And as a doc, I have had to give testimony in court, and never was sworn on a bible, nor did I ever give the Miliary oath on a bible (and the mention of God is not in either of these oaths).

The "oath", as Thomas More explains in a Man for all seasons, is taking your soul into your hands. It is asking fate, or god, or God, or Heaven, to pay attention to your promise (presumably to punish you if you break it). But it is also a way to acknowldge that you are not the highest person, but you are part of a patter, where you may be making laws, but you are also responsible to a higher meaning in life.

Confucius talks about the importance of ritual: it reinforces our behavior so we are not tempted to do what is ethically wrong, and it reminds us that the lessons of society on what is right and wrong are more important than our egotistical desires.

That idea, that tradition has a way to guide behavior, is not always correct in today's world, but the outright rejection of all traditions is something that is now politically correct in the USA.

For example, in the USA, any disapproval of a homosexual behavior is wrong, and any expression that 50 thousand years of marriage being between men and women and having something to do with biology and procreation and caring for children is now homophobia.

So if Chck Hagel points out that a potential ambassador to a Catholic country might not be appropriate since he openly attended a party or celebration whose entertasinment was a notoriously anti Catholic (gay) group, well, how dare he. Anti religion is okay.

Similarly the Obama administrations' not very well publicized vendetta against Catholic institutions is ignored. and I find it strange that the Obama administration first asked one Christian pastor to give a benediction at the inaugural and then withdrew the invitation:the MSM as usual is calling a pastor homophobic for a sermon he gave years ago defending natural marriage.

so presumably this means gay marriage will be a way for the progressives to destroy those with traditional values, and now maybe even have the federal government do it for them.

It is hard to find a Christian attitude shown positvely in films...when it is shown (e.g. hunger games, the Hobbit) it is shown in a stealthy way, and the films dismissed as juvenile.

In contrast, Father Z links to an article suggesting that Christians might have more luck in getting published in Asia:

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One of the leading figures of the Chinese avant-garde, Bei Cun, converted in 1992 and has since written a number of novels in which his Protestant faith looms large. Another convert from atheism, this time to Catholicism, is Fan Wen, who has written a trilogy of novels about Tibet centred around the Tibetan Catholic village of Yanjing. Rejecting magic realism in favour of what he calls “divine realism”, Fan Wen has achieved both popular and critical success, with the People’s Daily choosing Dadi Yage (or “Canticle to the Land”) as one of its top five novels of 2010.

yeah, and someday someone will notice that korean and Pinoys living in the Middle East mean that they are the new "christian" presence there.