Alright. It's time to talk entitlement. No, no, don't go running away screaming! Please! This isn't one of those! (I hope)
It took me a long time to understand the mindset of the Christians who believe this country is being taken from them. But it's quite simple. For a long time their's was the dominant view. What they believed was the law. Their religion could be everywhere, despite the constitution. They saw this as a Good thing and it wasn't enforced by a religious police like they have in Saudi Arabia, it just was.
Then free thinkers (I do hate this term, by the way) began to arise. They saw that the America they were in was actually oppressive to their own belief systems despite the Constitution. So they began to challenge and win those challenges. Slowly making this place friendlier to all non-Christians (And some Christian Sects).
Now the Christians don't see it as a balancing act, because there's no way their world view would let them see this. They see it as the balance is being thrown out of whack. That they are being discriminated against. They don't see it as everyone becoming equal, they see it as everyone becoming more equal than they.
Of course they are wrong, vastly wrong, but often entitlement is based upon where you stand. You don't see your own entitlement. So they don't see that they were on Top. They only see their "rights" being taken away.
So Non Christians just see the Christian Right in this country wishing to oppress them. But that's not what it is. The Christian Right honestly believes they are victims now, that their rights are being taken away. That they are being targeted. And while they are wrong, it still makes me quite sad. Because most of them will not ever see the truth of the matter because they cannot. And this is a tragedy.
