Janice Rogers Brown jumps in

people of faith embroiled in a 'war'...?

(Update: Victims or Victimizers?)

California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown [a Bush nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit] told an audience Sunday that people of faith were embroiled in a "war" against secular humanists who threatened to divorce America from its religious roots.[...] "There seems to have been no time since the Civil War that this country was so bitterly divided. It's not a shooting war, but it is a war," she said.

i agree, it is beginning to feel more and more like a war, although not of the sort she describes... it boggles the mind how these folks think they are being persecuted... they are perfectly free to follow their beliefs as they see fit and, for the life of me, i don't see how not being able to display the ten commandments in front of a courthouse demonstrates victimization...

Victims or Victimizers?

alternet has a compelling story about how "people of faith" perceive what's "happening" to them... for me, reading it opens up a whole new level of discussion about the dynamics of those who see themselves as "perpetual victims" and how becoming a "victimizer" is the flip side of that coin... one doesn't have to look very far to see examples of that dynamic spread around the world, from the jews and the palentinians to the serbs and the muslims... victimization is a vicious circle and the oft-used phrase in therapy is "breaking the cycle..." the part i still don't get, as i mentioned above, is where the notion of being victimized comes from in the first place but, clearly, this is part of their view...

Liberals drunk on their overwhelming power smash mighty fists down on the tender heads of righteous yet weak conservatives, who absorb blow after debilitating blow until they can stand no more, and rise up to restore all that is right and good with America. [...] The triumph of liberal totalitarianism, with the abolishment of the family and religion and free speech that all honest people hold dear, is forever around the next corner, at the bottom of a slippery slope down which we find ourselves eternally tumbling. [...] Sinister, powerful liberals are attacking you, your children and everything you believe in. While good Americans lie slumbering in their complacency, the mighty liberals continue their assault, and if we don't wake up soon it'll be too late, as our nation tumbles into a moral abyss and the streets run red with the blood of innocents. The end is near.

sadly, i don't think the above sentiments are being overstated... and, as alternet concludes, the victim mentality never rests...

Soon enough, the conflict over the filibuster and judicial nominations will come to its conclusion. But win or lose, those so angry about the "judicial war on faith" will quickly discover another war being waged against them, another reason to proclaim that--all evidence to the contrary--they are the real victims.

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