The American Left’s Assault on Christianity

The American left has been attempting to redefine constitutionally enumerated rights to favor one or more groups over others for decades. Christians tend to fall at the bottom of their “rights” hierarchy.

In fact, if the Declaration of Independence were to be rewritten by today’s liberals, it might begin something like this…

American progressives hold these truths to be self-evident:

• All cultures and religions are equally meritorious (except for Christianity)
• Everyone is a victim (except white Christians. Christians are victimizers)
• There is no objective truth, so everything is “moral” (except Christian morality)
• Thoughtful, reality-based, and benevolent, progressives celebrate diversity, and are tolerant, inclusive, and accepting of all fellow humans (except conservative, white Christians)

Objective?  Diverse?  Inclusive?  Thoughtful?  Reality-based?  Benevolent?  Not really…

Progressives – liberals – are the worst offenders of their own axioms when they talk about the “evils” of those who dispute liberal orthodoxy – the left’s versions of facts, policy, or, especially, morality. The bigotry liberals direct toward those with whom they merely disagree can be staggering.

Liberals say they believe in free speech, unless, of course, it offends someone’s tender sensitivities (meaning only that liberals disagree with it). They protest the “wealthiest 1%,” but exempt from their condemnations the liberal billionaires and wealthy movie and rock stars who share their ideology.

Many liberals believe corporations – and capitalism itself – to be evil, even though the capitalist system and many of the corporations of which they disapprove have created the products and standard of living liberals enjoy.

But the American left reserves its ugliest bigotry for Christians.

When liberals speak or write about practicing Christians, especially evangelical Christians, no slander is unacceptable and no religious custom is off-limits.

Former President Barack Obama, once America’s most prominent liberal, condescendingly denigrated Christians as “bitter clingers” to guns and religion. Liberals have (seriously) asked: “Do All Evangelical Leaders Believe Gays Should Be Put to Death?” And worried about reports that evangelicals were voting in record numbers.

In fact, the Biden administration targeted Catholics. Biden’s FBI specifically identified traditional Catholics as potential domestic terror threats.

Every Christian, of any age or gender, is fair game for liberal animosity. Liberals bash Christians with impunity, because Christians are…well…Christian, and behave in a Christian manner from which liberals fear no reprisal.

Ironic, huh?  And opportunistic, too.

No liberal would dare speak of Muslims the way they do Christians. Doing so would violate the liberal orthodoxy of multiculturalism, but, more importantly, such behavior might invite retaliation from some in the Muslim community. Apparently, there is nothing like a savage history and a continuing, credible threat of violence to immunize a group from liberal animus, to focus the liberal mind, and to encourage liberals to attend to their own affairs.

Muslim societies, even those relocated in Western nations, remain immune to liberal criticism despite traditional, institutional toleration of misogyny, honor killings, pederasty, brokered and arranged marriages of children, and genital mutilation, among other distasteful practices.

One suspects that if, like militant Islamists, Christians were to hack off a few heads in response to the treatment they receive, they’d face far less liberal hostility – at least openly.

If anyone were to describe blacks, Latinos, and women using the same sort of ugly stereotypes that liberals use to characterize Christians, liberals would be, rightly, angry and offended. But conservatives would be as well.

The point of an identical reaction from their ideological opposites escapes the left, which reserves for itself, alone, the “moral authority” to detect, condemn, and punish the most minute, even imagined examples of racism and ethnic or gender slurs, but only those that target black, gay, Hispanic, and female victims who embrace liberal orthodoxy. Liberals do not consider conservative blacks, gays, Hispanics, and females “authentic.” Accordingly, these do not merit liberal concern. In fact, the perceived political apostasy of minority and female conservatives and Christians has made them liberal targets.

Sadly, liberals will not consider, much less accept, that their shabby treatment of Christians is as ugly, ignorant, and offensive as the behavior of those who resisted the integration of blacks into American society.

And, although they are frequently both, liberals do not see themselves as either hypocrites or bigots.

They are too busy muttering “moralistic” platitudes and insisting that the people they demonize pick up the tab for their taxpayer-funded “charity.”