Are white Christians under attack in America? No, but the myth is winning

…But conservatives have long known that stoking racial or faith-based fears works, and they're leaning into this messaging. 

I spent much of my childhood attending white evangelical Christian churches in the midwest, and I remember sermon after sermon painting Christians as victims. It started with a story about how Christians were being persecuted in a foreign country, often China, and how that echoes the biblical stories about Christians being persecuted. Inevitably the sermon would turn to Jesus being executed by the Romans, and then extrapolate this persecution to our lives as American Christians. The message was clear: it's us versus the world – and the purpose of everyone else is to squash the fire of our faith…

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/18/are-white-christians-under-attack-in-america-no-but-the-myth-is-winning