"Don’t think I’m making the wild-eyed claim that this new persecution either is or ever is likely to become a bloody one resembling the purges of the French and Mexican revolutions or the communist war on religion. . . .
"No, the persecution of religion in the United States won’t be like that. It will be a tight-lipped campaign of secularist inspiration in which the coercive power of the state is brought to bear on church-related institutions to act against conscience or go out of business."
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Russell Shaw, OSV Daily Take(H/T
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i.e. “…the persecution of religion in the United States won’t be like that.”
But once the “tight-lipped campaign of secularist inspiration in which the coercive power of the state is brought to bear on church-related institutions to act against conscience or go out of business” stage of persecution becomes common-place, you better believe the bloody sequel will follow.
The burden of proof is on whoever would maintain that this one time in history things will prove different. Why wouldn’t violent persecution follow? Reassure me with evidence.