Anti-Christian hostility hasn’t risen, but it has changed as secular progressives hold more wealth, power
By Brandon Showalter, Christian Post.
New research examining cultural hostility toward American Christians shows that believers are incorrect to assert that animus toward them has increased. Yet they might be right in their claims that they face more problems such hostility causes than they once did, in light of how economics has changed.
The paper, authored by University of North Texas sociology professor George Yancey that was released on Wednesday seeks to answer the question, “Has Society Grown More Hostile Toward Conservative Christians?” and employs data from the American National Election Survey that allowed him to assess the level of warmth toward certain social groups. The study unpacks these attitudes and showcases how they have differed in the past several years versus previous decades.
“One thing that I hear from a lot of Christians is ‘it seems like things have gotten more hostile toward us,’ and so I was curious whether or not that was true,” Yancey said in a phone interview this week with The Christian Post.
Whereas with some research questions he has an inclination as to what the outcome will be beforehand, he was unsure of what he would find regarding whether the hostility toward Christians has indeed risen qualitatively.
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