My wake-up call probably should have been when a member of my own family insisted that Christians are the most prosecuted people in the USA (this was circa 2024).
Although it wasn’t all that long ago, at the time, I just chalked it up to being another of that person’s regrettable opinions. After all, it’s patently ridiculous to believe that it’s illegal to say Merry Christmas, that kids are being expelled from public schools for praying (but only Christian prayer, Muslims are still allowed to pray), and other non-sense like that. But, sadly, it’s more and more evident that vast swaths of the nation actually do not care that these beliefs are false, it’s real to them, so that makes it easy to view themselves as being persecuted.
My wake-up call probably should have been when a member of my own family insisted that Christians are the most prosecuted people in the USA (this was circa 2024).
Although it wasn’t all that long ago, at the time, I just chalked it up to being another of that person’s regrettable opinions. After all, it’s patently ridiculous to believe that it’s illegal to say Merry Christmas, that kids are being expelled from public schools for praying (but only Christian prayer, Muslims are still allowed to pray), and other non-sense like that. But, sadly, it’s more and more evident that vast swaths of the nation actually do not care that these beliefs are false, it’s real to them, so that makes it easy to view themselves as being persecuted.