Culture Wars
More on American Victimhood
by Jimmy Hopper
About three weeks ago, I posted on the current desire/need to be a victim in modern American culture. I ran across a quote today from Tim Rutten in the LA TImes that I consider profound:
“In the United States and, increasingly, in parts of Western Europe, the only unchallenged moral authority has become that of victims.”
Think about that for a minute.
Posted by Jimmy Hopper at March 7, 2008 04:53 PM
Jimmy, I found this quote a couple weeks ago, and I put it in the bulletin, I believe:
“We don’t feel like we’re rotten; if anything, we feel like other people treat us badly. One of the most popular myths of our age is that if you can claim to be a victim, you’re automatically sinless.”
Frederica Mathews-Green
I was talking to a PCA counselor not so long ago, and he said one of the hardest things in his work was the examination of personal sin and culpability for people who have been seriously wronged. He was not talking about culpability for abuse inflicted against them, but rather just plain sin in other areas.
Jimmy,
It seems that everywhere I look, I see examples of this. It is a profound statement.
Steve