Heather gets it wrong about victimhood and Christianity

THE American conservative commentator Heather Mac Donald was eloquent in her interview on the Ben Shapiro Show about the debilitating cultural effect of ever more people in Western society claiming special victim status. But her apparent blaming of Christianity for opening the floodgates to intersectional sob stories would seem to reveal the fatal weakness in the secular conservative response to cultural Marxism.

In her critique of contemporary victimhood, Dr Mac Donald invoked the anti-Christian German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900): ‘Nietzsche said that Christianity was a major betrayal of classical ideals in that it celebrated the Original Victim’ (i.e. the crucified Jesus Christ). She suggested that ‘somehow in a secular way that idea of a scepticism towards strength and a glorification of weakness’ has now taken root in Western civilisation.

The fact is that Christianity is the only spiritual and moral solution to the narcissism that drives people in the post-Christian West to compete for privileged victim status. That is because – and secular conservatives such as Dr Mac Donald and libertarians like Ben Shapiro with his support for cannabis legalisation urgently need to grasp this – Christianity, properly understood and practised, humbles human pride and exalts the redeeming strength of the one true God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

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