So other day, this washed up in my FB feed: It is a fairly typical specimen of conservative Christian self-pity from a nation of conservative Christians, acutely aware of the real sufferings of real martyrs throughout history and around the world today and hungry to pretend that their trivial problems are equal to that. They aren’t. That’s not to say that there is not a real issue here that needs to be addressed. But the hype (which, I confess with... Read more