A website called “Christianophobia in Europe” is tracking what it believes are cases of anti-Christian discrimination in Europe.

 

Christianophobia, literally the irrational fear or hatred of Christians, is said to have entered the European lexicon in 2004, after the European Union rejected Rocco Buttiglione, a practicing Catholic, as EU commissioner.

 

Last month, British Parliament Member Mark Pritchard called for a debate on Christianophobia in the UK. Pritchard said "This debate…is about how anti-Christian sentiment is increasing, not decreasing; why many Christians feel they are not getting a fair hearing when it comes to Christianity in the public square; and what many people of all faiths and no faith see as the increasing marginalisation of Britain’s Christian history, heritage and traditions…”

 

Britain’s National Secular Society called Pritchard’s Christianophobia debate “paranoid and a waste of Parliamentary time.”

 

That’s a silly, politically driven assertion from an interest group. Christians all over Europe face laws and attitudes that infringe on their free speech and free exercise of religion; some have been fined and some have faced jail.

 

The EU Treaty still includes no specific mention of God or Christianity.  That speaks volumes on this issue.

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