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Have Christians been rounded up and hanged in front of their burning crosses?
Have businesses refused to serve Christians?
Are Christians denied other services?
Have Christians been arrested for talking about their faith?
Not being allowed to put Christian symbols in government buildings is persecution?
Did the DNC actually take a vote to remove all references to God from their convention?
Where does persecution start? When does it begin?
According to you persecution begins when it's too late to do anything about it. This is the historical meme and was even used by Hitler to gain the backing of German Jews. This is our 1932, and you are ignorant of history.
Have Christians been rounded up and hanged in front of their burning crosses?
Have businesses refused to serve Christians?
Are Christians denied other services?
Have Christians been arrested for talking about their faith?
Not being allowed to put Christian symbols in government buildings is persecution?
I never understood the push against Christmas trees. I'm an atheist but I still put a tree up in my house. I don't connect Christmas trees to religion at all, that's just me. But yes, persecution against Christians is hilarious. There are laws based solely on religion....gay marriage comes to mind.
I never understood the push against Christmas trees. I'm an atheist but I still put a tree up in my house. I don't connect Christmas trees to religion at all, that's just me. But yes, persecution against Christians is hilarious. There are laws based solely on religion....gay marriage comes to mind.
I actually don't think there is/was any push to remove Christmas trees, just nativity scenes on government property.
Did the DNC actually take a vote to remove all references to God from their convention?
Where does persecution start? When does it begin?
According to you persecution begins when it's too late to do anything about it. This is the historical meme and was even used by Hitler to gain the backing of German Jews. This is our 1932, and you are ignorant of history.
Where does unfounded paranoia start and when does it begin? This persecution complex is another witch hunt.
Have Christians been rounded up and hanged in front of their burning crosses?
Have businesses refused to serve Christians?
Are Christians denied other services?
Have Christians been arrested for talking about their faith?
Not being allowed to put Christian symbols in government buildings is persecution?
It's not overt persecution, but for people to be forced to suppress their religious convictions it amounts to oppression in their eyes.
I don't know what your beliefs are, but try to imagine that you lived in a culture where those beliefs were widespread and common, yet there was a concerted effort to reduce expression in those beliefs. Things that you once took for granted, like greeting someone with a holiday wish, became grounds for a discrimination lawsuit or at the very least caused offense. In essence, you could not openly practice your religion anymore. Some would call the strangulation of one's beliefs a form of persecution.
It's not overt persecution, but for people to be forced to suppress their religious convictions it amounts to oppression in their eyes.
I don't know what your beliefs are, but try to imagine that you lived in a culture where those beliefs were widespread and common, yet there was a concerted effort to reduce expression in those beliefs. Things that you once took for granted, like greeting someone with a holiday wish, became grounds for a discrimination lawsuit or at the very least caused offense. In essence, you could not openly practice your religion anymore. Some would call the strangulation of one's beliefs a form of persecution.
I don't see this happening whatsoever! Where I live, we respect people of all religions or of no religion.
Why bother asking for cites, when you know there is nothing I could show you that you would accept?
I'm not going to bang my head against a wall in an attempt to enlighten you to the truth. You are blind to such things, and disinterested in facts. You have proven this through your history of one-sided close minded posting.
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Originally Posted by jojajn
Where does unfounded paranoia start and when does it begin? This persecution complex is another witch hunt.
Thank you for proving me correct in the first place. Do you know how eager most of us are for this to happen? Look beyond the persecution itself, and you can only come to one conclusion. I feel sorry for those who can't see this.
Playing the victim is a bad move. If you are being attacked, you defend yourself. You don't roll up into the fetal position and hope your whimpering stops the attacks.
I think it pretty ridiculous for the OP to pretend that there isn't an actual concerted attack on Christianity in America. I'm not Christian, but it's pretty clear to see that there is a strong push towards secularism.
You would prefer we be more like Iran?
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