• qantravon
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    431 month ago

    They want to be David vs Goliath. Being the ones persecuted means that they can go on the offensive without feeling bad about it. It means whatever they do is justified as being a means of survival. It gives them an excuse.

    • @[email protected]
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      231 month ago

      Exactly, the Bible is written for the underdog. Constantly referencing persecution for the faith, which is non-existent in the USA, so they try to redefine what they see as micro aggressions as full on persecution. They simply want to be angry, righteous anger for Christ.

      • @CharlesDarwin
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        141 month ago

        They view their Belief System (BS) being put on the same plane as other mythologies, new or ancient, as somehow being “persecuted”, since they are so used to having unwarranted privileges.

        They’ve seen that unwarranted privilege being chipped away, ever so slowly, as xtianity dies off in number of adherents in the United States (dwindling down to 60-some percent, now) - trending toward what more normal advanced countries of the West are like, and they fucking hate it. They want everyone and every part of the culture to have them up on a pedestal again, even if it means violence, and a lot of it, because “Jesus”.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 month ago

        Well at least with the old testament they kinda were the underdogs, the ancient Hebrews kept getting invaded and occupied. Going back to when they were still just another breed of Canaanite during the bronze age all the way to the fucking Romans, hell given the context that many Palestinians are in fact the Hebrews who never left its still going on.

        • @MutilationWave
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          130 days ago

          Yeah kinda, most of that stuff is fictional though.

          • @[email protected]
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            230 days ago

            The specifics are but there is more than enough evidence to say the lowland Hebrews kept getting invaded and occupied. Though the ones in the highlands had a better time, mostly cause invading highlands is annoying at best a fucking nightmare at worst.