White Christian Male

I identify as a Protestant Christian. However, I don’t always practice my faith to the strongest level. Is in other words, I’m almost accepted into both categories of the dominant faith and the oppressed group. I’m part of dominant faith so I receive all of the extra treatment that someone who’s Christian, let alone a white, male, Christian gets. I’m lucky I’m part of a dominant faith, but I shouldn’t have to be lucky. People should accept other people’s faiths and not classify them as a bad person just because they don’t have the same faith as you do.

            One issue I think goes on when we talk about religion is that no one wants to answer. Like Schlosser said in his article, people always say, “no preference” or “I prefer not to answer”. If people can’t talk about it, we can’t fix it and grow.

            I experience privilege because I’m that white male, protestant Christian, middle class person so I get all the privilege from all of those classifications. Like in the article, I have the opportunity to flaunt my religion for the whole world to see without having to worry whether or not I’m going to be patronized for it. If I was of the Islam religion, I’d be worried because people don’t understand their religion an attack them for their beliefs. One of the things that Schlosser’s article really stuck out to me was the “I can put “Jesus is Lord” bumper sticker on my car and not have to worry about someone vandalizing my car”. This struck me because it’s unfortunately completely true in our society. If someone of a different faith put anything on their car, there’s a big chance someone would vandalize their car because they aren’t “normal” or “of the right religion”. Religion is a big issue in our society and it’s something that really needs to be addressed.