When I read this Salon piece, the dude is saying many things I've written right here on this blog. So, as I'm reading it, I am amazed how it is just like the gaslighting phenomenon I wrote about just yesterday. Except one thing, I would say that it is a perfect example. Basically, the author is saying that the conservatives, who gathered to hear Cruz, are crazy. You'd think then, that he is making up this stuff, in which case he would be gaslighting. But then the thought occurred to me: what if the author really believed it? Then he would just be mistaken, and not a liar. In order to gaslight, one has to be a liar. If one believes what one says, he cannot be lying. He is just wrong.
So, how is this author merely wrong, and not gaslighting?
He calls Christians the following:
despite the fact that American Christians are the most entitled and privileged people in the history of the planet, many feel persecuted
I have to take exception to that. If the author really believed what he is saying, he would have to believe that whatever Christians got, it was by immoral and illegal means. Or unjustly. So, where's the injustice? For a liberal, everyone is equal. But what about merit? What about one's ability to get ahead based upon the ability to do things that others cannot? That's not privileged, that is earned. It is definitely not immoral, but quite moral and correct. Basically, he is saying that American Christians haven't earned their positions. Well, thanks a lot, pal.
Secondly, in the Middle East, Christians are being slaughtered. Sounds like real persecution to me. What's the difference between over there and over here? Only distance. If we have a government that is sympathetic to the people who do these things to Christians over there, how long will it be before they start doing it over here? We've already had the 9.11 atrocity. What more does this guy need? There's real persecution, in the Middle East, and elsewhere in recent history. In the former Soviet Union, Christianity was against the law. It was banned. Persecution isn't imagined. It's a real possibility, even here.
Thirdly, I don't sense that Christians are being persecuted here and now in America. This is a false accusation. Christians are losing their preferred place in America, ( according to Obama, America is no longer a Christian nation ) and that's a shame. Evidently, the author has a problem with Christianity. Perhaps the author would like us to become Mohammedans. If you don't believe Christianity is better than Islam, then what does that make you? Mohammedans? Perhaps not, but not Christian either. Once again, liberals believe everybody is equal. They may claim that they don't think one religion is better than the other. And they may truly believe it. However, to believe that, one has to swallow down the lies of the far left and the Mohammedans themselves. Christianity is based upon the truth. There's no truth in what the left peddles, nor the Mohammedans. The author is most likely an atheist posing as a Christian.
Note that the author doesn't identify as an atheist. He seems to identify as a Christian. He cannot be truly Christian if he believes that all faiths are equal. Jesus Christ said he was the truth and the way. You have to believe that in order to be a Christian. The prophet Mohammed doesn't fit into that picture. The prophet Mohammed taught that Jesus was not the way. The far left doesn't believe in either religion. They are atheists.
The author wants people to believe his authenticity, and maybe he is sincere. If he isn't sincere, then he really gaslighting after all. He is telling the Christians that they are crazy to feel persecuted, even when nobody is claiming persecution YET. I think he believes his own bravo sierra, and is ignorant about the faith that he is criticizing. I went down the same road myself. I wasn't lying. I was just wrong.
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