What's with all the whining from American Christians about persecution?

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You're in the majority; supposedly about 95%... so how is it you're feeling so persecuted for your beliefs? Give me a break.
Guesses, duh, why do you think I said "American Christians"?
 
nope actually christians are about 84%

i don't know about no protestants, but Catholics have been persecuted for a LONG TIME and most especially in the US.

they were killed in England during the Protestant Reformation, they were murdered in droves in the Holocaust, and killed by the KKK more recently. not to mention the countless individual crimes that make up daily murder statistics.
i'd say that counts as persecution, wouldn't you?

plus now on yahoo there are endless numbers of atheists who keep bashing our beliefs and telling us our beliefs are stupid. i'd be pissed.
 
Christianity has a huge martyr complex.

A lot of biblical writings are about how people will suffer for their true religion, and about how people will be persecuted because of their religion.

Often it is self-fulfilling, such as when Christians go off and preach in non-Christian countries sometimes even breaking the local laws doing so.

Back for the early Christians it was easy to get your place in heaven by being martyred. Today in America it is a lot harder, so the Christians have to complain how they are being oppressed by secularists wanting to remove God from the money (added in the late 1800s for the coins, early 1900s for the paper) or from the pledge (added in the 1950s)

If they are not being oppressed how can they suffer for their religion and how can they get the fast track into Heaven?


Edit:

One of my favorite quotes, kind of related to this, comes from the Dover, PA Intelligent Design fiasco.


“We’ve been attacked by the intelligent, educated segment of the culture”

Pastor Ray Mummert


Those evil, evil intelligent educated people. LOL
 
Take heed

Acts 26:13-15 (New International Version)

13About noon, O king, as I was on the road, I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, blazing around me and my companions. 14We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice saying to me in Aramaic,[a] 'Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.'

15"Then I asked, 'Who are you, Lord?'
 
I don't believe we are persecuted much, but it does seem like people are blind to the insults. Sooo many questions posed to Christians are not merely disagreement, like some would have you believe, but are clearly mocking and insulting. Then, when people are called out for being insulting, the don't own up to it, and claim that Christians have a persecution complex.
 
I am not persecuted the way the first church (Christians) was. Persecutions occur from others reviling you because of your belief in Christ Jesus. There are those that understand their purpose in life and their call from God. Many want to harm Christians and trip them up because they (we) do not believe the way the world believes. Others fear the unknown and therefore use it against another.
Trials come to all people and they go through and others don't know how to handle them and die prematurely because they are not in Christ.. Sadness, sickness, and pain are a part of each of our lives. But my anchor is in Christ and that is unseen to the world. The world (people that have no hope in Christ) just don't understand spiritual things
1Corinthians 2:14 But the natural man receive not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him, neither can they know them because they are spiritually discerned. (taught)
 
I would like to know too, please?
BB
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Addendum: Hmmm. perhaps it is insecurity in their beliefs? A little doubt creeping in?
Is that why they are so defensive?
 
Thank you!!! It's incredulous!

I would think that the persecuted could not be the majority.
 
persecution is a matter of opinion. just look here on the forums, we get mocked all day long. we have also been killed for our faith in the world too. just like non believers have. every side has a sad story to tell.
 
Have you read the posts on this forum? How many times do Christians get attacked as illogical? Believing in something that doesn't exist?

Being in the majority doesn't mean you can't be persecuted. Besdies, on this forum, Christians are not the majority.
 
Actually, that's not the stats:
The world's principal religions and spiritual traditions may be classified into a small number of major groups or world religions. The vast majority of religious and spiritual adherents follow one of Christianity (33% of world population), Islam (20%), Hinduism (13%), Chinese folk religion (6%) or Buddhism (5%).

These spiritual traditions may be either combined into larger super-groups, or into smaller sub-denominations. Christianity, Islam and Judaism (and sometimes the Bahá'Ã* Faith) are summarized as Abrahamic religions. Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism and Jainism are classified as Dharmic religions (or Indian religions). Chinese folk religion, Confucianism, Taoism and Shintō are classified as Far Eastern religions (or East Asian, Chinese or Taoic religions).

Conversely, the major spiritual traditions may be parsed into denominations:

Christianity into Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Protestantism, Oriental Orthodoxy and Nestorianism (see Christian denominations)
Islam into Sunnism, Shi'ism, Sufism and Kharijites (see divisions of Islam)
Hinduism into Shaivism, Vaishnavism, Shaktism, Smartha and others (see Hindu denominations)
Buddhism into Theravada, Mahayana and Vajrayana (see Schools of Buddhism).
About 4% of world population follow indigenous tribal religions. About 12% of world population are irreligious.

For a more comprehensive list of religions and an outline of some of their basic relationships, please see the article list of religions.
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With 38,000 denominations of Christianity
 
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