Liberalism is a Mental Disorder
From The Secret of the Suicidal Liberal Mind:
“Envy is not simply hatred of someone for having something you don’t — it is the willingness to masochistically give up any chance of ever having that something yourself as long as the person you are envious of doesn’t get to have it either. Similarly, the more one fears being envied, the more one is driven to masochistic self-humiliation in attempts at envy appeasement.”
I have encountered this very thing when progressive posters on another forum would challenge me by saying things like how marvelous it is and how special I am to have been chosen to receive grace.
I’ve responded that I was taught that it is Christ who is special, not me, and have too frequently been tempted to shoot back that it is they who really think themselves special because they trample Christ underfoot even though He died for them too.
But I’ve never given into that temptation.
I may realize that C.S.Lewis’ imagery potentially has some validity to it: that the spirits of men are far more than we may seem even though the souls of men are bound up in the doings on this tiny silver stage that is life, and so I can suspect that everyone is really aware of Him at some level, even profoundly so, but that suspicion would seem madness to an atheist progressive taunting me that I would dare imagine myself special.
Simply: I refuse to be ashamed of my privilege, real as indeed it actually is! In fact i glory in what has been given to me unearned! And even worse I don’t respect the goodness of men or the badness of individual men to say those must be saved and those must be damned apart from the reference point of the only Gospel.
I’m terribly immune to fearing being envied!
And like others with that immunity, even if situational for many, we all get challenged by those who refuse blessing for our accepting blessing.
The folks doing the taunting would be exhaultant if any believer would come back, you’re right, I’m not special even if it meant following up saying and neither are you.
They do not want to think they might be blessed and they don’t want anyone to think they are.
Fear of bring envied ... a brilliant observation.
Those are some fantastic articles.