{"id":1884,"date":"2024-12-03T13:42:16","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T13:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?p=1884"},"modified":"2024-12-03T13:42:25","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T13:42:25","slug":"meerkat-reblogs-the-paranoia-and-persecution-complex-of-evangelical-christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?p=1884","title":{"rendered":"Meerkat Reblogs: The Paranoia and Persecution Complex of Evangelical Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Originally published in 2015. Edited and expanded. As of today, there is NO religious persecution in the United States. Every citizen is free to \u2026<\/p>\n<cite><a href=\"https:\/\/brucegerencser.net\/2024\/12\/the-paranoia-and-persecution-complex-of-the-evangelical-christians\/\">The Paranoia and Persecution Complex of Evangelical Christians<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brucegerencser.net\/2024\/12\/the-paranoia-and-persecution-complex-of-the-evangelical-christians\/\">Written by Bruce Gerencser<\/a>, here is a fascinating deep-dive into the oft-referenced, rarely-demonstrated Christian Persecution Complex. Christians &#8211; some of them at least &#8211; love to suggest they are being curtailed. Somehow, their voices are being diminished by society, the state, and who-knows-what else. Of course, they make these pronouncements in any and every avenue where they think they might be heard, including regional and national news, websites with a global reach, and all over social media. It&#8217;s true that being a Christian in some parts of the world brings more challenge than in others, just as being a Jew, Muslim, Sikh or Hindu can bring those same challenges. However, the thrust of Bruce&#8217;s post relates to the idea that <strong>American<\/strong> Christians are somehow facing persecution. I am struggling to think of any group that has so loudly <strong>screamed<\/strong> the message they are being silenced. I wonder if irony even exists in their language?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?page_id=1039\">Back to Meerkat Reblogs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in 2015. Edited and expanded. As of today, there is NO religious persecution in the United States. Every citizen is free to \u2026&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?p=1884\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meerkat Reblogs: The Paranoia and Persecution Complex of Evangelical Christians<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[75],"class_list":["post-1884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-and-society","tag-religion","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1885,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions\/1885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}