Religious faith - whether it is a story about a person's faith or about how society reacts to that faith is treated today the same way that stories about sex were treated 50 years ago - as being unseemly and disturbing.

Best to keep that kind of thing out of the streets where it might disturb the horses.

//When Bolt fell on his knees to thank God after he had won, the BBC presenter talked about it being "a moment to himself" when it was clearly the opposite. It was an act of public worship which would have been condemned as crass and distasteful if it had been an ordinary mortal. But because it is a hero then it has to be explained away as something else.

Try a wee thought experiment: Imagine if Usain Bolt was gay or transgender. Do you think the BBC would have ignored that?! Or if Eric Liddell (Chariots of Fire) was running today, how do you think the BBC would cover his refusal to run on a Sunday?//

Modern Secular Humanist Tolerance.

Days after passage of New Zealand's gay marriage law, New Zealand decrees that anti-gay marriage group is no longer a charity.

Atheists are spinning this as  //Are rules meant to be broken in the case of God?//

God Gesture Disqualifies Team: High School Track Team Pointed To Sky

A greater concern is whether putative "religious gestures" are being given excessive attention because of a hostility engendered by a misplaced notion of separation of church and state.

Hence, is smiling forbidden? A whoop of joy? Hugging teammates?

It is hard to see how putting a hand up for a fleeting moment constitutes "excessive celebration."

We woke up one day and discovered that we were living in Bizarro-World where women marry roller-coasters but pointing to the sky for a moment is thoroughly condemned.

Subversive Christianity.

From Breitbart:

BREAKING: PENTAGON CONFIRMS MAY COURT MARTIAL SOLDIERS WHO SHARE CHRISTIAN FAITH

The statement, released to Fox News, follows a Breitbart News report on Obama administration Pentagon appointees meeting with anti-Christian extremist Mikey Weinstein to develop court-martial procedures to punish Christians in the military who express or share their faith. 

(From our earlier report: Weinstein is the head of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, and says Christians--including chaplains--sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ in the military are guilty of “treason,” and of committing an act of “spiritual rape” as serious a crime as “sexual assault.” He also asserted that Christians sharing their faith in the military are “enemies of the Constitution.”)

Being convicted in a court martial means that a soldier has committed a crime under federal military law. Punishment for a court martial can include imprisonment and being dishonorably discharged from the military. 

So President Barack Obama’s civilian appointees who lead the Pentagon are confirming that the military will make it a crime--possibly resulting in imprisonment--for those in uniform to share their faith. This would include chaplains—military officers who are ordained clergymen of their faith (mostly Christian pastors or priests, or Jewish rabbis)--whose duty since the founding of the U.S. military under George Washington is to teach their faith and minister to the spiritual needs of troops who come to them for counsel, instruction, or comfort.

This regulation would severely limit expressions of faith in the military, even on a one-to-one basis between close friends. It could also effectively abolish the position of chaplain in the military, as it would not allow chaplains (or any service members, for that matter), to say anything about their faith that others say led them to think they were being encouraged to make faith part of their life. It’s difficult to imagine how a member of the clergy could give spiritual counseling without saying anything that might be perceived in that fashion.