ext_11093 ([identity profile] raven-moon.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] lunadelcorvo 2010-03-01 12:47 am (UTC)

I agree with you, up to a point. However, there is a significant 'persecution mentality' inherent in what was far left Christianity ten years ago, and approaches mainstream Christianity today. (I have not checked the link you reference, but I am going to guess it is from either a significantly conservative or overtly Christian source?) This idea of persecution persists (witness the 'war on Christmas,' and other hot button 'culture wars' issues) despite the overwhelming majority Christianity enjoys in the U.S., and the markedly Judeo-Chritian cultural bias that goes with it.

That the rhetoric of entitlement is co-opted, however inaccurately (even absurdly!), by a majority group as a means to vocalize its paranoia of another group, in no way negates the fact of that majority's entitlement.

Admittedly, I see outrageous things glossed in the name of other faiths too. Kosher slaughter, for example, is allowed for religious reasons, even though similar practices are strictly prohibited as excessively cruel even within our nightmarish meat processing industry. However, none of this changes the fact that, of all the outrageous things which pass under the guise of religion, the majority of them, and those to which we are the most inured, are done under the aegis of Christianity.

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