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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Lane3 who wrote (90338)12/12/2004 5:48:31 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (3) of 793725
 
We have a conflict between two groups who each see themselves as the outsiders, the victims. Makes for a strange fight.

Yeah, that makes sense. I have a very hard time wrapping my mind around the concept that Christians are persecuted in America, but I certainly perceive that some believe themselves to be persecuted.

In my mind, it's like white males feeling persecuted by minority setasides and other preferences. Feeling resentment, that I can understand, but feeling actual persecution, that I don't understand. It's way over the top, bordering on paranoia.

On the other hand -- another factoid I have a hard time wrapping my mind around is that something like 65% of Americans believe that the earth and everything on it was created exactly as we see it today something like 6000 years ago (or is it 4000 years ago), and that evolution is a hoax. Now that IS a viewpoint which is marginalized.

Those people ARE mocked, laughed at, and marginalized by the mainstream media, academics and other professional intellectuals.

Maybe they are displacing their resentment for being laughed at and marginalized for believing in fundamentalist creationism into feeling like they are being laughed at and marginalized for being Christians.
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