Martini Republic » Uh-oh! We’re in charge!: "Of course, it’s lunacy. But reading the Week in Review summary by Kirkpatrick this morning, it doesn’t get any better on the evangelical side these days. A key paragraph.

Some reasons for the discontent over Ms. Miers may go back to the pessimistic view many evangelicals hold about society and culture, Professor Green said. ‘They kind of expect to be betrayed,’ he said. ‘They see themselves as an embattled minority. They feel the culture is moving in the wrong direction and they are fighting an uphill battle to turn it around, but they half expect to lose.’

It’s true. A large part of the appeal of the whole zeal attendant to being an evangelical Christian is the martyr-fetish, the feeling that everything is against you. The degree to which they’ve been able to delude themselves into thinking so is astounding, perhaps unparalleled in history. Never have so many who have had so much been able to sustain the feeling of disenfranchisement for so long."

(Via Martini Republic.)