In today’s episode, John Corrigan in his Canopy Forum article “Why Do White Christians in America Think They Are Persecuted?” considers the narrative of white Christian persecution in America and shows that throughout history, white Christians have often been the perpetrators rather than victims of religious violence. This violence, Corrigan argues, has been willfully obscured through the white Christian emphasis on the religious freedom afforded by the First Amendment. While for the U.S. religious freedom has been an admirable ideal, Corrigan shows that its implementation has been difficult, largely due to sectarian intolerance. “White Protestants,” he writes, “the majority religious group for most of the nation’s history, regularly have launched their own inquisitions into the legitimacy of other American religious groups, always under the pretense that such groups were out to get them.” So: Why do white Christians in America think they are persecuted? Find out in today’s episode of Interactions. Read the original article on https://canopyforum.org/2020/06/23/why-do-white-christians-in-america-think-they-are-persecuted/ (Canopy Forum). https://cslr.law.emory.edu/scholarship/cslrbooks2016-2021.pdf (Browse) our book brochure.