# How perception of Christian persecution in America could become self-fulfilling

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**Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-perception-of-christian-persecution-in-america-could-become-self-fulfilling/929540/32 "2021-01-05T02:19:31Z")

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This remark was posted in another thread, but it’s pretty much perfect for this one too:

> [@Congressman ends invocation prayer in Congress with "Amen and Awomen"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-ends-invocation-prayer-in-congress-with-amen-and-awomen/929653/19):
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> Our supposedly secular Congress opens with a prayer (yet again), and the news story is that the man ended the prayer wrong.
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> That’s religious privilege for you.

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