The Christian Right's Bizarre Delusions of Persecution

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12. Despite the careful exclusion of any of the deluded that might give the author some money,

the religious are going into panic mode.

Their old standby response to reason, murder and mayhem, doesn't fly anymore and appeals to reason are obviously going to fail (yes Virginia, there really is an all seeing, all knowing, omnipotent man in the sky watching everything all the time, but he's just always broke), so now that people all over the world are coming out and calling them on the bullshit they've been buying for millennia, they are starting to freak out.

Put yourself in their place. If too many people don't share the delusion, they will lose the support they have to maintain the delusion. It's especially hard on the "nice" ones, they are beset on all sides. They have the crazy-mean evangelicals on one side working hard every day to counter every precept of the story, then there are the heathens and heretics that choose to follow some other false god, and now they've even lost the tacit government approval that allowed the old fashioned torture-murder-terrorize tactics that were always in the toolbox when needed.

What's a well-intentioned dissociative to do?