If you have watched Fifty Shades of Grey, the secretary, love and leashes, there is a very high probability that you definitely understand the innuendo —The unconventional things the masochistic love interest often requests from their equally fervent sadistic lover, during their rather interesting sessions— if you do, welcome and enjoy your short stay aboard Air controversy.
The Chosen One. Ah yes! The one person in a film or story that automatically has the responsibility to save the world just because. The underage, inexperience, discriminated girl or boy, who was born when a shooting star, an eclipse or some coincidental natural occurrence happened, automatically signaling the prophecy holders of their birth and is hunted down from the moment they are born and persecuted for the rest of their lives—yes, that chosen one. Then, we get to the sequel, tens, hundreds, and thousands of years away from The Chosen One and we discover a gaping crack. We find out that the followers of this chosen, are now a sect of people who think they are better than everyone because of their alliance to the “chosen”. In order to stand as the one true sect above all—the only ticket to a promised nirvana on or off earth—there is indoctrination, manipulation and prosecutive propaganda, in order to make them feel special or if we could say, chosen, sometimes going far enough to sponsor terrorist to turn fiction, myths and fabrication into reality in exchange for undying, unquestioned and controlled loyalty and faith, merging protagonism and villainy through the use of flirtatious love and fear. No, this is not about Frank Herbert’s Dune, George Lucas’ Star Wars, Isaac Asimov’s Foundation, Liu Cixin’s The Three-Body Problem or the many science fiction tales where the chosen one philosophy runs deep, but Jesus Christ’s passion of Christ , the Torah by the Prophets and the New Testament by The Apostles —basically the prequel and main story of the Bible if it makes sense— specifically, the chosen generation, Christians.
Dropping the bomb, Christians have a persecution kink. Their relentless desire to be jellyfish when they are Orcas, is laughable. Their zeal to feel connected to the apostles has sent them on the hunt to look for suffering, forgetting this is the 21st Century, with Christians successfully being the most popular and somewhat influential religion—colonization and fear doing most of it— not the 1st Century, where they were mere heretics in the Roman empire and that, was a chaotic recipe for some real persecution.
After roughly 300 years of persecution, the Apostles and the early church all went to Father Abraham and Constantine had his Christian awakening through a dream—a vision, officially changing the status of Christians overnight, making them enjoy years of peace until the great Christian withdrawal—the Crusades. 700 years later and they were itching for some sweet persecution and who else to not blame but their cousin, Muslims. And ever since they lost —yes, they actually lost after 200 years— Cousin Islam automatically became the dominatrix giving them sweet persecution on the “whoever-wants-to-incite-violence-ly” not even yearly—such sore losers. Abraham wronged us all to be honest. A deep dive into the Crusades will reveal it was all for power and nothing else. Not some redemption, some salvation, just plain, old, Power.
Young children in Sunday schools are brainwashed into believing there is active persecution by Muslims while it is preached to the adults. I know most churches were in their “repent! The lord is coming” mood, when their beloved, Donald Trump tweeted Christians were getting killed in Nigeria. Can some please tell him we know the Eagle has spotted a weaker Eagle drenched in oil? Well, we all know the Eagle is not even theirs—we leave that saga for another day.
This fetish has gotten so extreme, every Muslim around the world let a sigh of relief, when the person who murdered Charlie Kirk, was not one of them. It is the same way the tragedy of 9/11 contorted from being politically motivated towards America, to being religiously executed to persecute Christians. The same way the Nigeria Civil war or the Biafra war was manipulated into becoming a religious one when it a political one. Speaking of Nigeria, we have people claiming Boko Haram is a threat to Christians, when they commit their crimes regardless of religion, with Muslims being the most preyed upon. Can Christians for once come to the realization that there have been religions gone and present, as well as civilizations who have been on earth longer than their worship has been? Can they come to the realization that no one has been more persecutive than them? That the world does not revolve around them alone but 10,000 other religions too? Among yourselves, you torture, bully, and mock the many, many, many divisions, but you are quick to blame everyone but yourselves. If I were to pick a Chosen group who has been persecuted the most, Jews will be undoubtedly my first pick, not Christians.
Palestine can burn because the majority is Muslim. Sudan can rot because the majority is Muslim. Let’s not get it twisted, being Muslim does not automatically make one a terrorist, an extremist or violent. Yes, Christians have a persecution kink and have specifically targeted Muslims as their scapegoat. The idea that being actively persecuted is a way to feel that indeed, through Christ, you are the chosen ones and treatment of persecution and being hated as a confirmation of the trueness of your religion is inherently wrong and discredits the actual brutality the early Christians faced. Whoever told Christians being hated equates genuineness has done the world a disservice. It is almost as if all of them want to go back to being that small heretic group in Rome so bad, their mouth water at the thought of it.
It is almost as if they cannot wait for things to go south, just to prove a point.