The Cult of Victimization

Why is victimhood the new path to virtue—and what does that say about our culture’s morality? In Chalcedon Position Paper No. 71: “The Cult of Victimization,” R.J. Rushdoony exposes how modern identity—political, personal, even religious—is built on the false gospel of self-pity. From Romanticism to revolutions, from national grievances to personal traumas, Rushdoony traces how a satanic inversion of truth has replaced responsibility with resentment and holiness with masochism. In this episode, we uncover how a world obsessed with victim status is rejecting Biblical salvation—deliverance, not defeat. Tune in to hear how the devil’s party preaches suffering without redemption… and why Christ offers something radically different.