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I don't agree with you using the sunni/shiite analogy.
what roachboy is talking about is not the the structure is changing and the Christians are no longer in power...
what is true is that Christians are a numerical and cultural majority...yet, they perceive themselves as a persecuted minority. And this in turn creates feelings of persecution when there are none intended.
For example, this "war on Christmas" notion you and others reference. That was BS hysteria. People weren't prevented from saying or displaying the words "Christmas." Who knows the motivation for some stores changing their signs to "Happy Holidays" (although that's always been the signs I've actually seen in Macy's and Target and around malls). I think it's more likely that signs need to last longer than one day in the retail business and generic holiday signs can even be used longer than one season.
But to the persecuted mind, it looks like discrimination.
The same holds true for "all these atheism" threads and "anti-christian" posts. A number of those objectionable replies were actually made by Christians themselves about other Christians. I only saw a few atheism threads, but I don't understand why that would translate into persecution toward Christian believers. If anything, I would think the pornography would be anti-christian...but that at least to be central to many members of this site so I don't understand if that's being objected to.
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