But Sidney, you changed the subject from your contention that Christians are being persecuted to the threat of a more generalized totalitarian state. It isn't mysterious to me, personally, that someone should worry about the state having increasingly great access to all information about all its citizens. That picture kinda gives me the heebie jeebies too. But your belief that Christians are being persecuted by non-Christians does seem to me truly perverse, when Christians are in a (growing) majority; and while i can tell you personal stories about the painful experiences my Jewish friends or their children have been, and continue to be, subjected to by Christians, there are few examples of the opposite dynamic. My suspicion is that Christians were so much in the catbird seat, free to subject non-Christians to their rituals and sanctimony on all public occasions and in all public venues, and notably, to me, in the public schools, that a mere lessening of their ability to rub others' faces in their doctrine feels to them like a veritable slap in the face. I'm saying that I think that it's a subjective thing, Sidney-- that in truth, Christians are simply being treated more like everyone else instead of as The Religion Bosses of America.
Now I'm sure that the view of many Christians is that since your religion is right and everyone else's is wrong....etc.
(And of course that is the view of the members of most religious factions; it is human nature; and we (the minority) are saved from the majority only by our Constitution.) |
