“I can confidently say that when I was in graduate school, my identity as a Christian was far more under attack than my identity as a black,”
“I was repeatedly informed, ” [George] Yancey continued, “that Christians like me were the source of most of the problems in our society, and challenged to leave my Christian identity behind. Like many Christians today, I did not feel safe.”
Usually those who do not like blacks or Muslims admit that they are intolerant but simply try to justify their intolerance. Those with Christianophobia tend to deny that they are intolerant but rather that they are fairly interpreting social reality.
Envisioning themselves as fair and free of intolerance allows them to blame those they detest rather than recognize how their emotions have distorted their intellectual judgments.
By documenting just how hateful some of the attitudes are toward Christians, and who tends to have such hateful attitudes, I hope to bring Christianophobia into the light so that we, as a society, can discuss this social problem and how we might address bigotry in all of its myriad forms.
http://freethinker.co.uk/2015/01/29/so-many-christians-so-few-lions/
Note: “So many Christians so few lions” is an anti-Christian bumper sticker/slogan, which I assume is the reason for the title of the book.
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