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People have claimed "destruction from within" for a hundred changes, from the abolition of slavery to women's suffrage to Roe v. Wade and yet here we are.
I think it's funny that Christians are so infuriated by this, as their reaction is the same as any majority losing their unwritten power to marginalize lesser groups and their inherent freedom from critique.
We have Senators and congressmen who openly call Islam a religion of evil and terror. Where was your outrage then? It's all a matter of whose ox is being gored, innit?
Are we really so nieve? Why are Christians infuriated that Christians are singled out? For the same reason soldiers are when you say "people who join the Army do so because they aren't smart enough to go to college." Why blacks are so vocal about slavery and Jim Crow. It's why Jews are so vocal about the Holocaust.
If I have a limited time to be vocal and offended, you can be sure I'm going to be vocal and offended by things that attack me.
I'm not going to be vocal about slavery. I wasn't a slave, and I have never owned slaved.
I'm not going to be vocal about soldiers and their education level. I'm not a soldier and I won't be one.
I'm not going to be vocal about the Holocaust. I'm not Jewish and my family left Germany long before Hitler showed up.
Come on, is it really a question. We are vocal, and offended by things we think are an attack on us. I don't feel bad about that. I'm not angry the same is true for others. Sure, get angry if you want, but don't think I'm going to get on board to save a dolphin by ramming a boat, or that I won't eat meat in front of you.... if those are your fields of battle go for it. I'll reserve my right to be vocal and offended when I'm being attacted.