Reply #79: They need to believe they're persecuted to justify what they want to do

[AlienGirl]

which is, persecute everyone else.

If they can convince themselves they are under attack, in mortal danger of being denied basic civil rights, or as a fundie dorm-mate once claimed, about to be sent to concentration camps, they can justify making a pre-emptive strike.

So they project onto non-Christians and liberal Christians the intent that they themselves have.

Tucker