Evangelical 'Persecution Complex' | National Catholic Reporter

Evangelical 'Persecution Complex' | National Catholic Reporter by MSW.  MGB: Almost everything Noble says about the Evangelicals (and lets say mostly While - Dr. King and the Black Chruch were being persecuted) can be said about the right wing of the Catholic Church - particularly the bishops.  The thing is, what they think of as persecution (like the rise of Marriage Equality) is really the loss of Church power (starting with Griswold v. Connecticut).  When Abortion Trap Laws are overturned in the very near future, as they must be under Casey, the strain will go up again.  I suspect that women will say they were persecuted, not persecutors.  Much of the talk of persectution is more about group dynamics - wheter it be about poor Pope Pius IX or Christians in places where they really are being persecuted.  In prior times no one would call the State Department - they would pray that their brothers and sisters would have faith when it came time to witness with their lives.  Indeed, the whole Left Behind series is premised on the fact that the most favored in the Church are raptured to avoid the persecution.  The hope for a Rapture is the cowardly way out.  Glory is about facing the Anti-Christ, as is said about the countless numbers who are in white robes washed in the blood of the lamb (by dying in martyrdom).  Of course, the irony is that John of Patmos may have really been writing against the non-Judaizing Church where we are now - the sect he was defending is no more.