08-02-2017, 02:33 PM
Quote:It's an Evangelical thing. They teach that Christians are persecuted, I have an assistant at work who believes she's being persecuted for her beliefs as well. It's the looniest shit I've ever come across, I'm fairly certain she was telling people that the apocalypse would be initiated if Hillary had won..no joke.To be fair, and while it's hard to define "persecution", there is plenty of Christian persecution in the world, as there is with all the religions in the places where they are minorities. You could even argue Christians are the most persecuted worldwide. (Then again, the studies that find that show raw numbers of incidents that aren't adjusted for the fact that Christians are the world's majority, so in terms of percentages of those effected in the religion to say they're the most persecuted is dubious.)
But the idea that there is Christian persecution in the US, where we are not only extremely tolerant of religion but where it is a clear majority, is ridiculous. And the horrible false equivalence some groups try to make between Christians dying in a church bombing in the middle east and a court clerk having to grant a civil union to a gay couple in the US is atrocious.