"Christian Privilege!" Should Become Our Battle Cry

While the debate about whether America is a Christian nation is an important one, the more urgent question is whether Christianity holds a privileged place in our nation and culture.

In 2020, we learned about the horrors of “privilege.” Intersectionality peaked after a slow burn in the Academy and throughout the Left over the course of decades. The West would come to understand that certain privileges are “bad,” and that certain disadvantages are “good.” You know them well: white, male, wealth, and good health are privileges that needed to be brought down a few pegs according to the Left. Meanwhile those without “privilege” needed to be given a helping hand in the name of “equity.” These groups include women, BIPOC, LGBT, the disabled, etc.

Yes, yes, yes, there is something important to be said for the protection of minority rights. We oppose tyranny in America, after all. And if someone truly finds themselves in a deplorable situation through no fault of their own, or perhaps because they have sacrificed for their nation, we should collectively be there to offer a helping hand.

But for the Left to get what it really wants, economic advantages are not the only privileges that must be brought to heel. The concept of redistribution of wealth is so 1990s. Now, it has been determined that the building blocks of Western civilization must be repealed. The family, “gender” norms, and Christianity are all problematic, because they are believed by them to perpetuate hierarchies that lead to oppression. The Revolution, in other words, can never be complete until all privilege is revoked, especially privilege that has come about as the result of being in the majority, even to include privilege that is rooted in one’s conscience.

Ironically, the avenue by which religious privilege is being dismantled is in name of “religious freedom” itself. They posit: Don’t you know that religious freedom means no single religion can be preferred in America?

But the reality of our history is that the promise of religious freedom that was included in the First Amendment was meant to protect a Christian’s conscience from unlawful government interference. We know that Congress is prohibited from passing any law that imposes a “state religion” on American citizens. So, for example, Virginia could not be an Anglican state, Maryland a Catholic state, Pennsylvania a Lutheran state, to the extent that those who lived in those states would be required to conform to those dogmas.

But that doesn’t mean that Christian privilege wasn’t assumed by our founders. Our customs, manners, values, and our system of government was connected to Christianity. John Adams’ famous quote: “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other,” indicates our founders understood that freedom required duties, and those duties were provided by Christian ethics and Law. Not Muslim law. Not humanism. Not secularism. Not even Judaism. Christianity provided them.

So long as those who emigrated to America came from British—and later European— stock, a basic set of shared Christian values was assured. Freedom of religion was no threat to the people. To physically get to America required a certain amount of money or forced labor, so new arrivals were either eager to fit in, or simply had no choice in the matter.

We are in a new day. The jumbo jet, the folly of “birthright citizenship,” and the importation of millions into America is creating a revolutionary civil divide. Immigration combined with the decline of Christianity means Christianity could soon become a minority worldview. No doubt, this was not imagined by the Founders, or it would have been understood as a potential horror, and they would have addressed it.

Secularism and its Culture of Death are by far the biggest threat to Christian norms. Abortion, gay marriage, no-fault divorce, the welfare state, the celebration of drugs, sexual degeneracy, and surrogacy are all vicious opponents to Christian ethics. But Islam may not be far behind, especially if they are willing to ally with progressivism for a convenient period of time.

Muslims are pushing their own kind of dominion in the public square in the name of religious freedom. Inconvenient praying, Sharia Law, public calls to prayer, and no-go zones are the result of Muslims successfully using the West’s promise of freedom to their own unique advantage.

Against each ideological foe, Christians should insist on majority privilege...while they still can. Instead of being embarrassed or ashamed by the prospect of privilege, they should assert it, just as Secularists and Muslims do wherever they are in the majority.

Yes, minorities have the right not to be persecuted, but the majority has the right to reign. The majority gets to enjoy its majority status. The majority gets to set the rules.

Rights are not the same thing as privileges. A minority can have rights without having equal privileges to the majority position. Minorities can still assemble, worship, receive an education, print newsletters, and advocate. Majority privilege simply means that those in the majority can say “No” to their demands if their demands are in conflict with a Christian society. Majority privilege means our laws, norms and culture take precedence in the courts, with one—and only one—worldview winning.

Some examples:

• No, Satanic displays will not be allowed in courthouses and state government buildings.

• No, airports will not carve out special places for Muslim prayer.

• No, Islamic calls to prayer in public spaces will not be tolerated.

• Threatening speech against Christianity will not be tolerated.

• Legal questions concerning abortion, marriage, pornography, and drugs will be decided by Christian Law and norms, not secular neutrality.

• Christian organizations and churches can receive special tax benefits that others may not receive.

• Christian holidays will be given preference over secular and other non-Christian days.

In the end, there can be no true neutrality. That is a myth. A particular worldview must win. And while these examples may strike the reader as a violation of rights, all of this has been understood as normal everywhere else for all of history. Because America has uniquely valued liberty, non-Christians have been able to use that against us in a way a Christian never could in Saudi Arabia, an American never could in Mexico, or a Frenchman never could in Russia.

Ignoring majority privilege simply invites a vacuum to be filled with actors who will most definitely assert majority privilege the moment they have it. For Christians, the hour is late and we have been asleep at the switch. We don’t need a theocracy. We can assert our rights and still be Constitutional. All we ask for is what every other majority has always assumed: privilege. Shame on us for forgetting that privilege is not only good, but it is in fact necessary for a society to flourish.

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