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There are ominous parallels between the history of anti-antisemitism and the “flowering” of anti-Christianism in our age. Hatred of Christians has been brewing for a long time. A student of the history of ideas can see a slow but steady and relentless increase in anti-Christian sentiments from as far back as the 14th century. During this same period, however, one can see the hatred counterbalanced by generations of Christian people. Anti-Christians have been in the minority. Now it seems we have reached the tipping point. Anti-Christians are now a large, very loud and very aggressive group. Are they the majority? They say they are. And elections in the next couple of decades are going to reveal the truth or untruth of that claim.

Anti-Christian minorities are more and more becoming “protected groups.” And Christians are more and more becoming constitutionally unprotected.

The son of Thomas Mann wrote a history of Germany and throughout the work he sought to explain the rise of anti-Antisemitism in Germany from 1789 to the time of Adolf Hitler. His book is 535 pages in length. One can see throughout this work how the Jewish people slowly became more and more constitutionally unprotected; how the full force and strength of the German government became officially anti-Semitic.

Golo Mann, as well as others ask: why didn’t the Jews leave en masse or put up a more fierce struggle with the rise of Hitler? Reading diaries of German Jews, one realizes that many couldn’t believe what was happening to them;could not believe that things could get worse and worse. Is there not a parallel here for Christians?

First, Christians are becoming a minority in the United States. Second, Christians are becoming an unprotected minority. All the various secular pressure groups and interest groups are attaining protected status. I sense a deep hatred and resentment against Christians behind all this. This hatred is like nitro gylcerine. It is dangerous and unstable.

Not only are more and more people becoming anti-Christian, but they are becoming proud of it. They see their hatred as a virtue. Look at how seriously non-Christians seek the removal of all crosses and Christian symbols from society. Secular anti-Christians are joining forces with Moslems on the principle that the enemy of one’s enemy is one’s friend. Non-Christian religions are becoming protected groups.

What happens if and when the United States Supreme Court becomes dominated by anti-Christians? This body is the final arbiter of which groups are, and which groups are not, constitutionally protected. When I talk to fellow Catholics about what President Obama is doing to freedom of religion I get: “so what?” or “big deal.” I hear Catholics talk about this so abstractly . . . as if it was all happening on another planet. And I am reminded of the diaries of Jews living at the time of Hitler. Nobody is taking this seriously.

– Curt Stoler