And that note is a little...dirty.
'War Stories'
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Oh, billytea, how terrible for WallyBee's family. Much ~ma to them.
Nice one, Daisy.
My heart goes out to Wallybee and that whole family.
~ma to Wallybee's family, billytea.
I'm sorry about WallyBee's close friends, bt.
I think also there is a segment of Christians (from my church experiences) that thrive on the perception of persecution; that they need to fight against a hostile culture for their beliefs just like early Christians in the New Testament. I think this can magnify issues like the mosque and gay marriage, etc... It reminds me of Mike Huckabee during his presidential run saying that there were "Plenty of choices for candidates who don't believe in God". A sense of being an oppressed minority.
I think also there is a segment of Christians (from my church experiences) that thrive on the perception of persecution; that they need to fight against a hostile culture for their beliefs just like early Christians in the New Testament. I think this can magnify issues like the mosque and gay marriage, etc... It reminds me of Mike Huckabee during his presidential run saying that there were "Plenty of choices for candidates who don't believe in God". A sense of being an oppressed minority.
That was a big thing in the freak-ass church -- if you were being persecuted for your beliefs, then you were THAT MUCH BETTER of a Christian!
Of course, they defined "persecuted" as "my co-worker has invoked legal statute to get me to stop proselytizing at the water cooler." OH NOES.
A sense of being an oppressed minority.
Some denominations are based on having been persecuted, sometimes with actual persecution. It's odd that they see this as "we must defense ourselves, because we have been persecuted", rather than, "we know how you feel and will defend you from persecution, because we have been persecuted, too." My Persecution is More Relevant Than Your Persecution.
It's kind of hard to have sympathy for the Christians in the Roman Colosseum when you've got the Inquisition to put up against it.
wrod. Also, welcome to my world.
It's Mormon thing, too, all about the "We were driven out into the wilderness!", which is actually true. But they don't see the corollary to driving others out into metaphorical wildernesses. It's a willful blindness that really annoys me, and freaks out the True Believers when I bring it up.