As a Catholic, as a church historian, as a scholar, this is clown shit
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Arno Rosenfeld
Interesting story that gets to the heart of why many Christians feel persecuted in the U.S.: The secular elite find many of their views abhorrent and uncouth
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...
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BUT...
https://bsky.app/profile/profgabriele.com/post/3ljqkor5xhc2q
A great counter is if Christians are puritans, then explain what year it is and why.
Some people just want to claim they are being oppressed so they never have to acknowledge that maybe the world shouldn't revolve around them.
Am I a “secular elite?
"You can be a Christian, but you can't force me to live as a Christian."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_kidnapping_and_beheading_of_Copts_in_Libya
(Obviously, outside the scope of what’s being actually discussed here, but -)
Clown shit? Academics, boy, they just can't do without their technical jargon.
But that takes courage and careful self reflection and the average evangelical is unwilling to engage with either
The work of seeing if the beliefs you've been taught align with the good person you see yourself as, frankly sucks. But I'm forever grateful I did it.