Radical Christianity 101

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Read Christina Moss' "The Myth of Persecution" and find out how much of this martyr stuff is total bullshit.

Without benefit of reading it, I assume it calls historical martyrdom bunk. What is confusing is all these yokels claiming they'd die for jeebus. Is it posturing? Bravado for street cred at church? What? It's a sick sentiment, that...to applaud people's conviction of dying instead of a 'little white lie'. What a shit religion.

Meanwhile in America, the "I'd die for Jesus" crowd -- having never come within sniffing distance of actual persecution, much less martyrdom -- have to content themselves with playing the persecution card when their idiotic ideas aren't incorporated into school science curricula, or when gay people's basic rights are recognized, or when mean people ask for evidence for their silly beliefs.

Bravado for street cred at church? Could be. But don't underestimate the narcissism involved in a lot of this. Mr. Dylan touched on this in a song:

"I wish I could give Brother Bill his great thrill.
I'd set him in chains at the top of the hill,
and send for the doctor and Cecil B. De Mille.
He could die happily ever after."

Imagining themselves the center of such a spectacle has, I'm sure, warmed the cockles of many a Christian heart -- especially those who are in no danger of such a thing ever happening.