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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Win Smith who wrote (13773)	5/19/2001 8:38:32 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

and it's mostly by Christian Nation apologist holy rollers. I think that there's a complicating factor in religious discrimination that you don't get with other types. It's obvious to everyone that whites are the dominant group and blacks are the minority, for example, or that men are the dominant group even though women are the majority. The able-bodied are dominant and the disabled are the underdogs. Our ethic is that the dominant group is supposed to restrain itself enough to give the traditional victims a fair chance. Religion is the same, IMO, but Christian (dominant group) activists want to claim the victim role. Even bigots and male chauvinist pigs seem to understand at some level that it's not cool to run roughshod over underdogs. For some reason, a lot of Christians just don't get that. Maybe it's historical knowledge of other times and other places where Christians weren't dominant. Or maybe they just can't reconcile being true to both God and Country concurrently. Whatever it is, I think the victim mentality distorts the dynamic between dominant force and underdog when it comes to religious discrimination and that's a lot of the problem we have in communicating. Karen