The Nexus of White Grievance

Given the state of our nation, it is worth examining the nexus of white grievance politics, and the three distinct groups that combine to make it so frighteningly strong.

It begins, and probably ends, with conservative Christianity.

True to our Puritanical roots, to many who attend conservative churches, Christianity is defined, not by the teachings of Christ, but by suffering. “Christ died for your sins!” That’s why The Passion Of The Christ, which was religious torture porn, was so beloved in the Evangalical community. For them, faith is not about Christ’s life, it’s about how he died. How he suffered.

Meanwhile, in Catholicism, early saints got to be saints by suffering. The worse the suffering, the greater the saintliness. Depicting Saint Sebastian riddled with arrows, Saint Lawrence being grilled, Saint Margaret being pressed, the gruesome deaths of martyrs became a fetish for centuries, enforcing this message that suffering equals godliness.

This has long been a feature of Christianity, the idea that suffering ennobles. What better way to tell people to endure an awful status quo than to tell them their pain makes them noble? Combine that with the demonization of both education and women that starts in Genesis and doesn’t stop until the Gospel of Mark (only to pick up again in Paul), and you have the recipe for a pliant populace.

The key, however, is to make them embrace suffering. Relish it. The more they suffer now, the greater their reward in the…