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The Cancer of Phony Victimhood
Linda Harvey, WND.com
See if you relate to this scenario. You’re at your cousin’s wedding, or your nephew’s graduation party, and a relative spends a half-hour bending your ear with a hard-luck story: her horrible marriage, rebellious kids, a boss from hell, etc.
You shake your head and commiserate with this tale of woe. But later, you find out through reliable channels that she has played fast and loose with the facts. She’s an unfaithful wife, or neglectful mother, or incompetent employee. Or just a chronic complainer who makes stuff up.
In other words, she’s a victim only in her deluded mind.
Why do people do this? Why do groups do this, even entire social movements?
It’s pretty much for the same reason: justifying one’s own failings, excusing one’s sins, creating sympathy by building a case against others.
Of course, we all know authentic victims, and the sad reality is, those desperate for true compassion often get bypassed if their sad circumstance doesn’t check off a box on an approved victims’ list.
Real victims abound, but America today is crowded with fake ones.
From magnified race wars, to allegations of voter suppression, to the ubiquitous “homophobia,” there are few people remaining in the land of the free who can’t claim one victim category or another.
Even atheists play the victim card. Children’s after-school Christian “Good News Clubs” threaten atheists and their devotion to “reason.” So with a new identity as Satanists, they’ve announced they’re starting Satan clubs. Good plan. What could possibly go wrong?
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What One Mom Told Me...
A message from Linda Harvey
I'm reading this book with my 13- year- old daughter." This is what a concerned mom recently told me about why she was ordering my book, Maybe He's Not Gay: Another View on Homosexuality.
"She goes to a public school and it's time she learned the truth."
That's why I wrote this book-- to provide students with a conversational, informative, Christian explanation about why homosexuality defies common sense, morality, health, and God's design as a behavior and why it's not hate to say so!
Find out more about this book, written especially for youth, including how to order, on our web site HERE.
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