I would hope that you had realized that that was the plural form of "you" that I was using. It isn't always all about you (sing.), after all.
Many individual Christians are actually quite decent people, believe it or not. Many of them do try to practice the finer points of Jesus' teachings. But as a group they are being misled into violating those teachings. They've been lied to into joining a culture war and they've been misled into fighting that culture war. And they've been led into believing their side's propaganda, which is that they are being persecuted in American society and viewed with hostility.
Well, that hostility may well be there. After all, isn't the schoolyard bully regarded by his victims with hostility? And when that bully starts whining about how nobody likes him, isn't that nothing more than hypocrisy? The same hypocrisy we see in "true Christians" when you (pl) whine and complain about not being liked.
But the "true Christian" thirst for political power is the truly scary part. Their political mentors, the Christian Reconstructionists, have spared no ink in decry the ideas of democracy, human rights, and religious rights as heresy that had been created by Satan. At the same time, they advise their followers to use appeals to religious liberty in order to gain a position from which to deny the religious liberties of their opponents ("Democracy as Heresy," Christianity Today, 20 Feb 87).
We know what "true Christians" have planned for us. Why would you ever imagine that we should view those plans with anything but fear and hostility. You have declared yourselves to be our enemy. Why would you ever imagine that we should view such declarations of enmity with anything short of apprehension?
We have noticed Phat, you, and other "true Christians" here playing the script in your heads that we are hating you and persecuting you because of your beliefs. That is not true. We couldn't care less what you believe; you're just projecting your own hatred of all beliefs that are different from your own. It is your actions and agendae, not your beliefs. Of course, it certainly does not help when you perceive disgreement as being persecution.
You (pl) keep reminding me of one of Dr. Hartley's patients (the first
Bob Newhart Show). He was a large middle-aged black man who was very bitter and continuously complained that everybody hated him just because he was black. Finally, Dr. Hartley asked whether maybe people didn't like him because he was an unlikable person.
You (pl) complain that nobody likes you "true Chrisitians", but why having you stopped to think that that might be because you are very unlikable. The next step in getting people to like you should be obvious, even to a "true Christian".
I'm not upset about anything.
Then why do you keep complaining so loudly, vehemently, and constantly? About something that's not even there.