You can play the “victim card” if you want to. Just be prepared to be laughed at… when you consider yourself a “victim”.
Well, that was my point, actually. Anyone who has any intuition at all about Christianity knows that “playing the victim card” has no part in it, however “playing the victim card” is assumed and permitted by pretty much every modern social cause: feminism, gay rights, transgender issues, immigration, inclusivity, abortion, micro-aggression, Black Lives Matter, etc., etc.
Now, of course, you will argue that it is “laughable” that Christians view themselves as victims when they have done the victimizing. However, you see it that way precisely because you are not a Christian and have already created a caricature of what’s it means to be one that you now find “laughable.” The same could be said about anyone who views any of the other modern social issue “victim claims” to be “laughable.” It is purely due to lack of empathy with those “victims.” But, of course, you have no empathy for Christians, which is why you find the claim one to be laughed at.
Yet, the entire endeavor for a Christian in the world is to be a true victim for every possible outrage and bear it silently, manfully and without second thought. In that sense, every “victim” of modern social ills who view themselves as victims are, in fact, failed Christians which is why they grumble. They don’t appear to possess sufficient grace to endure without complaint. In that sense, it IS laughable for Christians to consider themselves “victims” because being a victim and “shrugging it off” by supernatural grace is what it means to be a Christian in the first place.
So the failure of some Christians in the modern world has been the failure to demonstrate to the world how to properly and graciously be and overcome being a victim as Christ did. On the other hand, that grace has been demonstrated by many Christians in many places in the world – persecutions and beheadings by ISIS being one instance –*but not acknowledged for what it is precisely because moderns do not want to dispense with playing the victim card altogether, which would be required by grace.
