Excellent post Roachboy.
Its fascinating that this same sense of martyrdom survives from the Biblical times when Christians actually were being persecuted for their faith. Today the Christian church largely limits itself only to this martyrdom ignoring all other teachings of Jesus. It's such a powerful pathos that people can feel fufilled after paying $10 to see just the last act of Jesus's life, something that actually makes no sense without the preceeding acts. It's powerful stuff and no one living today is truely immune to it. I see it as the pervading pathos of our time whether you're christian or not.
No matter how shrill and upsurd cries of persecution from the Christian rightwing become it will always manage to ruffle feathers due to our philosophical programming.
"Oh, I don't reject your Christ. I love your Christ. It's just that so many of you Christians are so unlike your Christ."-Ghandi
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