Making the Mark of the Beast look fun and friendly!

Today's dose of victim porn.

I was referring to your propensity - indeed, desperation - to feel yourself a victim.

christianity flourished initially under persecution (though how much is mostly overblown. No, they were not fed to lions.), and many christians love to think of themselves in those terms - the moral masses, downtrodden by the Man. And that's true enough, some places. But it presents a serious problem to American christians, who are by far the most powerful and privileged group in the most powerful and privileged country in the history of the world (and who have utterly thrown away any claims to morality). How can they think of themselves as victims?

Hence there exists a whole industry designed to convince these people that any minute now there will be a religious dictatorship which will sweep to power and treat them all like shit. Imaginary FEMA death camps, an imaginary world religion, an imaginary economic system. Never mind that it's so ridiculous that it's all but impossible - which is why every fictional attempt to depict it comes across more as an absurdist comedy than any kind of warning. But the more gullible and desperate buy into it willingly.

It's kind of pathetic, but there we go.

You did, when you asked the question. Now you want to pretend otherwise, likely because the answer hit a little close to home.