Poor persecuted U.S. Christians

[pj]

Invisible Christian Privilege

I’ve been writing about Christians a lot lately. It’s seems largely unavoidable, as the influence of Christianity often haunts even the most Pagan of stories. We may be slowly moving into a post-Christian era, and some may question if the United States is really Christian at all nowadays, but the facts on the ground show that the vast majority of Americans (and Britons, Canadians, and Australians) identify as some flavor of Christian. Contrary to the fear-mongering of some about the evils of secularism, Christians still have massive influence on our culture, our economics, and our politics. The terms of debate on issues like same-sex marriage and abortion are framed by Christians.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2011/08/invisible-christian-privilege.html


Really. Really?? Still, always - my evangelical sister has whined about her supposed persecution. The bible admires her martyrdom.

Comments

[elf]

I'm not sure what accounts for the apparent upsurge in "persecution" claims.

"Oppression," for many Christian groups, is a codeword for "we are legally required to acknowledge the existence of other religions." If they're also required to admit those groups have legal rights, it shifts from "oppression" to "persecution."

As people of non-Christian religions are publicly lauded without "okay, for a Muslim" disclaimers, and as Christian greetings & decorations aren't the only ones in public view during holidays, they believe they're being "persecuted." It's not even that there's any more of these than there ever were... they're just not hidden anymore. Admitting in public that not every good American is Christian is perceived as oppression.

And there's huge swarms of them that believe that backlash for their anti-gay bigotry is persecution.

[herlander_refugee]

Oh, I know, they leap at any moment to claim they are persecuted by not being the only special snowflakes in the world.

Gee, poor poor them; having to act somewhat civilized and non-Talibanish with those terrible 'not us' types of people.