I was just reading GetReligion, as I am wont to do, and I came across some commentary on an article and the resulting letters to the editor in the New York Times. I know what you’re thinking, and you’re wrong.  This article has nothing to do with liberal media bias or the election.

The article was about religious strife in India.  Hindus and Christians in one of the states are battling it out, and some Indian-Americans took offense at the way it was portrayed in the Times.  But lo, that isn’t what stopped me from reading. What stopped me was this:

About halfway down the GR story I saw this line:

Christian families

. . . say they are being forced to abandon their faith in exchange for their safety. The forced conversions come amid widening attacks on Christians here and in at least five other states across the country, as India prepares for national elections next spring.

and my first thought was, “If they chose their safety over Jesus, they weren’t real Christians anyway.”

I know.  I didn’t even have time to be repulsed by myself.  I immediately had a vision of someone storming in with a knife, my wife and son in the room with me, and forcing me to make the same choice.  I don’t know that I would do the right thing.  It’s the scariest thing I’ve thought of in a long time.

H/T GetReligion