I call it \u201cpost Christian\u201d because it surfaces in a post-Christian society\u2013a society where people have cherry picked what they like and find useful from the whole Christian system and conveniently abandoned\u00a0the rest. Some people focus on corporate sin, for example, but neglect individual sin and responsibility. Others focus on the need for mercy while ignoring the demand for justice. Some choose a particular liturgical style while ignoring the doctrinal beliefs.<\/p>\n
I call it \u201cCrybaby Bully\u201d because certain individuals, pressure groups and political parties and politicians have used the \u201cVictim\u201d narrative to bully everyone into accepting their agenda.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s pretty effective and works like this: I\u2019ll use a harmless imaginary example to explain what I mean.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s imagine that you belong to a minority immigrant group. You are Ruritanian.<\/p>\n
You live with other people from Ruritania in the United States and you have discovered that there is prejudice against Ruritanians. For historic reasons, some Americans\u2013mostly from Argobinian heritage\u2013make fun of Ruritanians, say they are stupid, and they won\u2019t give them jobs and exclude them.<\/p>\n
The Ruritanians realize there is mileage in this, so they form a pressure group \u201cRuritanians For Equality\u201d. They do some PR work. They publish a paper. They hire an ad agency. They happen to have some wealthy Ruritanians to back them.<\/p>\n
They launch a campaign portraying themselves as the ultimate victims of bullying, prejudice, racism and cruelty. They do a lot of public pouting and posturing. They launch a lawsuit wherever they can so under the guise of being a crybaby victim they actually start flexing their muscles.<\/p>\n
They extend their righteous cause: not only have the Argobinians been cruel to them, but the whole of American society, by ignoring their plight, have been complicit in the crime.<\/p>\n
Before long they are Victim of the Month and everyone has jumped on the bandwagon to support their cause, and if you don\u2019t jump on the bandwagon you\u2019re one of the haters who has caused the problem because you MUST be part of the campaign. It\u2019s obvious. If you\u2019re not part of the solution you\u2019re part of the problem right?<\/p>\n
So group think takes over and they then use their newfound victim status to bully the majority not only into giving them civil rights, but every extra privilege they can think of to make up for how they\u2019ve been victimized.<\/p>\n
Once the cycle gets going they keep it going because by now they\u2019re doing pretty well out of the vicim business. They\u2019re getting publicity and with the publicity they\u2019re getting money\u2013lots of it. They\u2019ve learned how to tap into the American people\u2019s endless sentimental, guilt laden gullibility.<\/p>\n
It must also keep going, and to keep it going they must perpetuate the narrative. There must always be another level of prejudice against Ruritanians to uncover. There must always be some other oppressors to target and bully with their passive aggressive tactics.<\/p>\n