In his Sermon on the Mount, Jesus went out of His way to explain that believers should welcome this maltreatment. “Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness,” He said, “for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” Christians volunteered to live in a negative world. Christians signed up to be under siege. The notion that some conjectural bullying of the American Church is a defense for the indefensible—while Christians worldwide are being harassed and hunted and even killed for their faith—would be comical if it weren’t so calamitous.
