Posted on 01/30/2015 8:11:28 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski
A small, but elite group of Americans demonstrate signs of anti-Christian hostility, sociologists David Williamson and George Yancey claim in their new book, So Many Christians, So Few Lions: Is There Christianophobia in the United States?
In an email interview with The Christian Post, Yancey, professor of sociology at the University of North Texas, explained that Christians are fortunate in one sense, because those with anti-Christian hostility are small in number; but in another sense, they should be concerned, because those with "Christianophobia" tend to be powerful elites with influence in certain important areas, such as higher education.
The data for their research comes from a large national survey, the American National Election Survey, and interviews they conducted with members of liberal advocacy organizations. The title of the book is a reference to how some Christians were put to death during the Roman Empire, and the phrase can be found on bumper stickers. Several of the interviewees used some variant of the "so few lions" theme when describing their attitudes toward Christians.
Yancey added that he and Williamson, associate professor of sociology at the University of North Texas, hope their book will make those who are hostile toward Christians more aware of their own biases so that they can correct them...
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Of course the self serving Elite hates Christianity. It imposes restriction on Lying, Cheating and Stealing.
Well, by all means, if you are a Christianophobe, feel free to rush over to Syria and fully embrace the “armed insurgents”. I’m sure they would welcome you with open arms and sharp blades.
...and it took them THIS long to figure that out?
I think they resent the fact that there is a higher power than them.
Exterem SARCASM Alert:
Maybe if Christians started:
Beheading folks
Bombing folks
Wearing suicide vests and blowing up buses
Murdering whole villages
Kidnapping and raping school girls
Circumsizing young girls
Hijacking planes
the Liberal elites would cut them a break.
If we take any cues from Hitler, after he got the Jews out of the way he was going to gun heavily at the next item on his list - Christians.
Eliminating all sexual restraint is probably a chief goal of theirs so the entire Christian moral order is offensive to them.
Leftists hate religion because it posits that there is something greater than them. Even greater than The State.
And (at least some flavors of) Christian faith even posit that our salvation is not due to us.
What a party pooper for pride.
I agree.
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