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Along Life’s Way
Victim or
Victor?
By Lois E. Wilson
We hear a lot on the news about Generation Snowflake. A Snowflake is
defined as one who easily takes offense, is less resilient, and is
emotionally vulnerable to views that challenge their own. The parents
of Snowflakes may have stressed their child’s uniqueness to such a
degree that it developed within the child a lack of flexibility.
Snowflakes hold protests and cry out for “speech free zones” to protect
themselves from diverse views. They hope to abolish the first
amendment. Those who choose to be victims need villains, so they create
their own “privilege” groups: white privilege, heterosexual privilege,
socio-economic privilege, able-bodied privilege, and the latest
Christian privilege. They claim these privileged groups have kept them
from moving forward in their lives. If others do not recognize the
privilege, they claim those have “unconscious bias” and label them
racists, sexists, homophobes, etc.
This victim status gives Snowflakes excuses for leading a drop-out
life. They do not look within themselves to find solutions. Why do that
when they can blame their lack of success on others? Their mission
seems to be not to achieve their own full potential, but to wallow in
self pity. A few universities are offering seminars to assist the
Snowflakes in their quest for victimhood.
I applaud the people of today and from history who in adverse
circumstances chose not to be victims. When faced with problems such as
war, slavery, poverty, physical problems, ignorance and little
opportunity, they looked within themselves to assess their situations
and were brave enough to form plans to improve the lives of themselves
and others. Where would our civilization be without people like
Mandela, Gandhi, our founding fathers, Helen Keller, Martin Luther King
Jr., the suffragists, and others? The pledge then was, “We shall
overcome!”
And as for this new villain the Snowflakes have created—Christianity,
it excludes no one from joining its ranks. In fact, it invites each
person into its fellowship. However, even today there are still places
on Earth where you might be killed for being a Christian.
Are you brave enough to take the risk of belief and fight for the
freedom of all to practice their religion? If you are, then you will
have made the choice to forsake being a victim and claim a new
status—victor. Truly believe and you will experience not only God’s
love and mercy but his strength to guide you as you face challenges,
overcome them, and become a contributing individual throughout your
life.
Victim or victor? The choice is up to you.
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