RE: So why do Christians here in the United States have such a persecution complex
November 2, 2015 at 12:48 am
I'd say it's a combination of many different things.
Christians have this need to oppress and suppress any culture that isn't their own. In fact many of the European Christians who left for North America were feeling oppressed by other Christians. They've developed a sort of savior complex, which by extension has become a persecution complex. They think they are 'saving' people by converting them to their religion and getting rid of their 'heathen' culture. If they can't save people by converting them, then they have to feel oppressed because they can't do the one thing that has helped their religion stay alive for so long.
On top of that, Christians feel that only their sense of morality is right, and that everybody else has it all wrong. So anything that goes against their religion is 'immoral', and it's their duty to stop others from being immoral (this goes back to the savior complex they have.)
To make that worse... Republicans help feed their oppression complex by pandering to them. Making them feel as if they're in the right, and that laws should be based on their religious book. Because if America does anything against God's will, then America will be judged. They believe if they don't fight to stop men from marrying men, that America will lose God's favor (which they believe it has because of their moral superiority)
They don't see why anyone would find the ten commandments monument offensive, or why "In God We Trust" shouldn't be on money. They don't understand it because they've never had to actually experience persecution where they can't practice their religion. They've never had to have another culture shoved in their faces. SO when they don't get to shove their culture in other people's faces, they feel oppressed. If everybody isn't Christian, then they haven't done their job.
Christians have this need to oppress and suppress any culture that isn't their own. In fact many of the European Christians who left for North America were feeling oppressed by other Christians. They've developed a sort of savior complex, which by extension has become a persecution complex. They think they are 'saving' people by converting them to their religion and getting rid of their 'heathen' culture. If they can't save people by converting them, then they have to feel oppressed because they can't do the one thing that has helped their religion stay alive for so long.
On top of that, Christians feel that only their sense of morality is right, and that everybody else has it all wrong. So anything that goes against their religion is 'immoral', and it's their duty to stop others from being immoral (this goes back to the savior complex they have.)
To make that worse... Republicans help feed their oppression complex by pandering to them. Making them feel as if they're in the right, and that laws should be based on their religious book. Because if America does anything against God's will, then America will be judged. They believe if they don't fight to stop men from marrying men, that America will lose God's favor (which they believe it has because of their moral superiority)
They don't see why anyone would find the ten commandments monument offensive, or why "In God We Trust" shouldn't be on money. They don't understand it because they've never had to actually experience persecution where they can't practice their religion. They've never had to have another culture shoved in their faces. SO when they don't get to shove their culture in other people's faces, they feel oppressed. If everybody isn't Christian, then they haven't done their job.
