_ChristClips: Jorge Masvidal talks about Christian Persecution
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Personal)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2024/06/14
Jorge Masvidal: It’s like if you’re a Christian now. It’s a problem, man. I mean we see it all across the schools. Everywhere, even the society, and I was like, “Oh, Jesus freak,” just because you say a prayer before you eat or something, yeah. I’ll show you Jesus freak.
Interlocutor: You see the bill they’re trying to pass in Canada.
Masvidal: No.
Interlocutor: Trying to pass in Canada where you can’t, you know, outwardly worship or anything like that and not just Christians, but they’re saying for everybody. And I can’t even believe we’re at a point right now, where we are in a place. You can’t practice your religion freely. That’s becoming an issue.
Masvidal: I’m only going to say this because I saw this happen in other countries and I lived it through my parents. This is what communism looks like in Canada. It has been heading that fast track for a long time. We are going to end up communist. They know, the communists know, that one of the first things you gotta do besides taking their guns away, the next thing you gotta do is take their God away, take their religion away. So, you believe in the government, the government is going to give you the cheese, and the bread. Now, you don’t need to go to church. Because we banned that.
“Jorge Masvidal talks about Christian Persecution” (2024)
There’s a popular, quiet phrase within freethought circles about the feeling of privilege wrought under the banner of universalism, as in equality, feels as if persecution from the view of institutional privilege. That may well explain this sense of persecution.
Christians in the United States harbour enormous dominance in the culture and representation at all levels of governance and power positions in society. It’s humorous to reflect on the degree to which they feel persecuted simply as others in the society acquire the rights and equality with them.
Jorge comes up with the statement: It’s a problem to be a Christian now. To who? Under what circumstance? How? To what degree? It’s a vague sense of pervasive victimhood that is in-built to the Christian identity as one of God’s chosen persons.
It’s, on a psychological level, incredibly narcissistic. It shows up the language too. He references something to the effect of “everywhere,” as you can see. How is a Christian man in Western culture feeling oppressed of all people? Was he beaten by an atheist at a gas station?
No, clearly not, it’s simply a feeling. Similar in character to much of the victimhood Christians project onto the wider culture, they have spent a enormous amount of time, as a subculture, institutionalizing suppression of other groups.
Others get equality, now, they feel as if oppressed. This is dangerous because this mentality can be used to justify the harming of others. In that, victimhood is a danger as a self-identity, not in its reality. Someone who is victimized can come back stronger than before.
Yet, if they identify as victims, then they can justify their own injustices committed against others. The worst form of this happens when individuals haven’t even undergone an oppression then claim victimhood.
The old Red Scare was something to discredit political opposition. Now, it’s simply used as a means to blanket a group one deems wrong. Calling others communists or a boo word, claiming Christianity as something of a big problem in a modern context — as a victim of modernity, then fear of the government, it’s not that, though.
I would share those concerns as minarchy can be a good thing in some ways. Yet, the general perspective show in Masvidal’s feelings is a generally true item about the culture.
Namely, Christians are facing a massive decline in their stature and demographic dominance. Others are garnering more equality within the society. The only means by which to express this without integrating the empirical and existential facts around many of them: Fearmongering about communists, about government making universal access to spaces of society, and playing the victim.
In short, it’s the same old tale of Christian victimhood since the inception of the religion, whether gentle Jesus meek and mild or the Cross and the sword during the Crusades. I’m not buying it.
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