I'd disagree, but only partly.
To me the corruption of cultural preferentialism, of "everybody's special", has affected modern theology. I think it's not unusual to find Christians who act this way because it's not unusual to find Christians assimilating with cultural outrage and preferentialism.
Trained this way, Christians behave much like the culture behaves.
That doesn't sound right. Christians make up the majority of our culture. To blame the culture for the way Christians act could also be backwards. In the very least, Christians are just as much responsible for the culture as anyone else.
Sociologically speaking, Christians are the majority, in a culture that embraces exceptionalism. A few sociologists and social psychologists have been tossing around the concept of a cultural superiority complex. One of the symptoms of a superiority complex is an unspoken belief that the rules that apply to others do not apply to me, or that all will be forgiven because I'm too important to be punished harshly. Another is that other people have a responsibility to me, but I have no responsibility to them.
America is the most powerful nation on Earth. Americans perceive themselves as exceptioinal. Christians perceive adherents of other religions as beneath them, or inferior to them. This puts our cultural Christians not simply at the top of the pecking order, but at the top of the pecking order worldwide. Throw all this into a blender and puree, and it is not inconceivable that these continued acts of aggression and violence toward other religions is the result of this superiority complex.
By the way, I note that you still have not answered my question: Are atheists about as trustworthy as rapists?
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