Interesting. I’m a little older than you, but I guess I don’t remember things quite the same way. I was one of the God Kids, a former Baptist preacher’s son and member of a Baptist church with an active youth group. We church kids kind of stuck together, but I really don’t remember being bullied because I was a Christian. Maybe that happened sometimes, but the bullying I received at both church and school because I was effeminate and presumptively gay outshines anything anybody ever did to me for being one of God’s Kids.

I didn’t get stuff in lockers because I was a Christian. I got bullied because I talked “like a girl.” My bullies were as likely to be Christian as non-Christian.

From my closeted-gay teenage perspective, Christian kids were always the bullies and never the bullied. Mind you, I’m not saying you’re wrong. I’m just saying my world must have had a very different focus than yours.

That’s why I started my comment with “interesting.”