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Originally posted by mmariebored
If you go down the whole line throughout the history books, you'll find that the other Christians who were persecuted were mostly done so by their own.
Christians were the biggest persecutors of anyone who didn't follow their beliefs because they felt they had the right to do so, given by Jesus himself. Similar to the second largest religious group's pattern of behavior towards people who aren't a part of their "faith", though, Christians were slightly less violent, dew to self-righteousness.
Originally posted by mmariebored
I'm not surprised that no one even bothered to touch this statement from the OP, but instead, chose to attack a fabricated point based on their own misinterpretation of the OP. Because if someone would like to dispute these very real, murderous accounts in our history books, I'm more than game.
Originally posted by mmariebored
I believe that many Christians today are not as persecuted as they imagine they are. The biggest reason they imagine they are persecuted is that, in the Bible, they are told that they will be persecuted just for following Christ.
Originally posted by 19DCW71
That's like saying biblical Christians were only slaughtered because they believed they were persecuted. The Jews in biblical times were only slaughtered because they believed they were. The holocaust only happened because they BELIEVED they were persecuted.
So if I analyzed this statement, I would have to take it to mean that it's either basically the fault of the ones persecuted for believing themselves to be or the persecution wasn't real but only a perception in their own minds.
Originally posted by mmariebored
I'm talking about Christians who claim they are specifically targeted for persecution.
The holocaust has nothing to do with Christian persecution.
Originally posted by mmariebored
Hitler hated the Jews because he felt threatened by them. He targeted them for extermination along with anyone he felt was a threat. I'm sure, had his plans succeeded, his camps that destroyed so many Jewish people would have gladly welcomed any and all other enemies that disrupted his plans of world domination.
Nero, for similar reasons as Hitler, killed off many early Christians.
Yes, they actually WERE "persecuted".
Originally posted by mmariebored
If you go down the whole line throughout the history books, you'll find that the other Christians who were persecuted were mostly done so by their own.
Originally posted by mmariebored
Christians were the biggest persecutors of anyone who didn't follow their beliefs because they felt they had the right to do so, given by Jesus himself. Similar to the second largest religious group's pattern of behavior towards people who aren't a part of their "faith", though, Christians were slightly less violent, dew to self-righteousness.
Originally posted by mmariebored
"The Mohammedan religion too would have been much more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness..."--Hitler
Originally posted by mmariebored
reply to post by EricD
Did you not read that the whole reason I posted this is because, in another thread, someone was claiming to in fact be a persecuted Christian? Not to mention, I just so happened to have grown up surrounded by Christians who claimed to be persecuted every time someone looked at them funny...
And I just so happened to have lived all over this country, so don't try to insult me by saying it's merely the area. Not everyone is as idiotic as you'd like them to be just because they disagree with you.
Originally posted by mmariebored
That was already acknowledged. There are many different types of persecution. The persecution I'm speaking of is the persecution people right here in America are claiming they are suffering just because someone treats them badly. My point is, people are treated badly all over the world, but Christians read in the Bible that they will be oppressed and so every time someone does anything bad to them, they believe it's because they are a Christian.
Originally posted by 19DCW71
You want to laugh. This thread was started because she claimed I said modern Christians were Persecuted. I said biblical Christians, so I have NO IDEA where she came up with this whole topic.
Maybe she was just looking to PERSECUTE some CHRISTIANS.