LEWISBURG – A Baylor University Sociology Professor says anti-Christian attitudes and discrimination has become a problem in this country, even worse than Islamophobia.
Dr. George Yancey says these attitudes have been targeted mostly at conservative protestants and Catholics, “The people (doing) this tend to be upper class, tend to be highly educated, politically progressive, non-religious. People with Christianophobia tend to have power to do things that people with Islamophobia don’t because they have status and can control culture.”
That means you’ve seen anti-Christian attitudes in these types of environments, “Our colleges, our media, our entertainment. I think it might be coming more in big businesses because they’ve become more culturally progressive.”
But Dr. Yancey says anti-Christian attitudes aren’t necessarily coming through academia itself.
When it comes to media bias against conservative Christians, you’re seeing it now in some cases during coverage of Monday’s Nashville Christian school shooting, “I’m quite confident if this had been a Christian shooting up some sort of a transgender area, they would point out this person’s a Christian.”
“If the story’s about the shooting of a church, the focus is on guns. So I’m paying attention to the story, but I’m also paying attention to the media because I think you’re seeing a manifestation of Christianophobia there right now,” he said.
He shared his studies on this during a visit to the Bucknell Program for American Leadership Tuesday night. You can hear more analysis from Dr. Yancey on the WKOK.com Podcast Page or wherever you listen to podcasts.
