In light of the previous post about Christian discrimination in Britain, here is a perspective from Ruth Gledhill, who says she is a liberal Christian and is reluctant to wear a cross because she doesn't want to be seen as a victim. Click here to view the video (Sorry they didn't provide the html code)
Please share your thoughts on this perspective about persecution in Britain. Agree? Disagree? Weigh in. Comments are open.
In Britain Christians cry: “We are being persecuted.” But the lions don’t exist beyond their imaginations or the arena beyond their story books. Lord Carey of Clifton, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, and his fellow victims are giving all Christians a bad name. It is time for liberals to stand up and say: “We will not be slain by this malevolent spirit, not even when the persecutors are our fellow Christians.”
In Stalky & Co, Kipling says: “The bleating of the kid excites the tiger.” Persecutors can be moved to greater effort by the pathetic noises of their victims. In their persistent bleating about the non-existent persecution of Christians in Britain, Lord Carey & Co are merely exciting the secularists to further ridicule. I am now reluctant to wear a cross, not because I fear persecution but because I don’t want to be identified as a victim. And I don’t want to be identified as “one of them”, a fundamentalist hijacking good traditional Christian values to serve a right-wing political agenda.
Christianity has always been big on victimhood and victims have to find a persecutor. Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, has been known to grumble about his treatment by we beasties of the media — but even he thinks that the craze for victimhood has gone too far. He used his Easter Day sermon to focus on the truly persecuted in countries such as Nigeria, not nurses complaining about being banned from wearing crucifixes.
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