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  1. Jun 2023
    1. persecution complex
      • Persecution complex
        • One of the most widely and deeply spread memes, and corresponding behavior within Evangelical Christians is a persecution complex
        • This is a attitude of righteousness and feeling attacked for holding their righteous views
        • This meme and accompanying behavior appeals to base emotion of fear to shut down intelligent conversation
        • It makes them impervious to constructive criticism
    1. persecution complex
      • Persecution complex
        • One of the most widely and deeply spread memes, and corresponding behavior within Evangelical Christians is a persecution complex
        • This is a attitude of righteousness and feeling attacked for holding their righteous views
        • This meme and accompanying behavior appeals to base emotion of fear to shut down intelligent conversation
        • It makes them impervious to constructive criticism
  2. Jul 2022
  3. Dec 2016
    1. For these reasons, among others, they carried about an air of innate resistance, even of persecution. Their fathers had, of course, been persecuted in England. So now they and their church found it necessary to deny any other sect its freedom; lest their New Jerusalem be defiled and corrupted by wrong ways and deceitful ideas.

      Parris's fear of persecution is shared by the town as a whole. Each member of Salem is so afraid of being targeted themselves that they attack others in an act of precautionary self-defense. Miller once again establishes the characters' motivations and foreshadows the upcoming trials.

    2. He believed he was being persecuted wherever he went, despite his best efforts to win people and God to his side.

      Miller immediately characterizes Parris as a paranoid man, foreshadowing that his future persecutory actions will be inspired by this fear.