Why do people who still believe in God, but not organized religion get just as persecuted as non-Christians?

Answer 1

Because they don't "fit in". Trying to change our precious customs and traditions!! Objecting to the money good people give to the church, to support the minister and maintain our beautiful building!! Radicals!! Revolutionaries!!
They are too much like Jesus!!

Answer 2

I do not think "persecuted" is right word here.
May be they are not taken seriously as believers.
If you are baby-Christian and you are not in the church where you can spiritually grow under careful guidance, there are more chances that you will become easy victim of occults.
Of cause, not all churches the same, and you could get hurt by other believers or pastor would not be able to provide good guidance.
What is "simple" plan for Christ-believer:
1. Be born again and start grow with Lord. It is not easy as many would think...
2. Mature enough to receive and understand Love of God, then desire to share this love with other people.
Many tried to speed up the process and get hurt. Pain would push them away and they would turn into spiritual mavericks or turn their backs to the Lord.

Answer 3

Are you sure you mean persecution? I know that in this country, at least for now anyway, we can believe what we want when we want. People,lets say in China , have to meet secretly and run the risk of having their homes burned down,being thrown in prison and losing their lives. If you are in parts of India and try to live the christian faith, you mau be caught in field and have it burned around you and even your innocent children caught in it and burned nearly to death. The India government may decide to take away a building that they granted permission for just because they want to. So you and your family are out with no where to live not even a straw hut. So far as I know we are not persecuted in this country for our faith. Thank God for that. Do people who think that they might know more than us look down on us for not attending church every Sunday. Of course freedom of speech they feel they have the right to do that. If your heart is right with God, You have accepted and believe in Jesus Christ on the cross for your salvation, then why worry what others say?. Be glad you have the right to believe the way you want without true persecution. It may come one day but it is not here yet. Pray for comfort from th e Lord H e can show you how to deal with the people who speak against you.

Answer 4

Even though it's a hypocritical, money making machine, a church is still a community. If you don't belong to it then you're not necessarily "persecuted", but are definately treated as an outsider. You're not the only one who doesn't believe in organized religeon. I'm a confirmed catholic and I 've been in a church less than five times since.

Answer 5

Because they have different beliefs from the Christian fundamentalists. It's exactly the same thing as the Muslim extremists in the Middle East persecuting everyone else who doesn't believe what they believe.

Answer 6

because christians follow what the authors of the bible tell them to, even the followers of Jesus weren't allowed in the new religion of Rome
The controversial Irish priest Malachi Martin, without giving a legitimate reference, noted in "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Church" that:"...A meeting between Sylvester (Pope Silvester I) and the Jewish Christian leaders took place in 318....The vital interview was not, as far as we know, recorded, but the issues were very well known, and it is probable the Joses, the oldest of the Christian Jews, spoke on behalf of the desposyni and the rest.""...That most hallowed name, desposyni, had been respected by all believers in the first century and a half of Christian history. The word literally meant, in Greek, "belonging to the Lord." It was reserved uniquely for Jesus' blood relatives. Every part of the ancient Jewish Christian church had always been governed by a desposynos, and each of them carried one of the names traditional in Jesus' family---Zachary, Joseph, John, James, Joses, Simeon, Matthias, and so on. But no one was ever called Jesus. Neither Sylvester nor any of the thirty-two popes before him, nor those succeeding him, ever emphasized that there were at least three well-known and authentic lines of legitimate blood descent from Jesus' own family..." "...The Desposyni demanded that Sylvester, who now had Roman patronage, revoke his confirmation of the authority of the Greek Christian bishops at Jerusalem, in Antioch, in Ephesus, and in Alexandria, and to name desposynos bishops to take their place. They asked that the practice of sending cash to Jerusalem as the mother church be resumed... These blood relatives of Christ demanded the reintroduction of the Law, which included the Sabbath and the Holy Day system of Feasts and New Moons of the Bible. Sylvester dismissed their claims and said that, from now on, the mother church was in Rome and he insisted they accept the Greek bishops to lead them."
"...This was the last known dialogue with the Sabbath-keeping church in the east led by the disciples who were descended from blood relatives of Jesus the Messiah."

Answer 7

I don't understand what you mean by non-christians being persecuted. What are they being persecuted for?

Jesus taught that His followers would be persecuted for righteousness (His) sake, not for the sake of what religion or denomination is or is not followed.

Answer 8

Because they don't participate in the churches, don't vote the way "God" wants them to, can't be organized, and ask too many questions.

Answer 9

If you don't go to a church and you don't subject yourself to public scrutiny, how can anyone tell you how awful you are and why God hates you? ;-0 Plus, you are not contributing to the Sunday pot lucks.

Answer 10

Persecuted?????? You sure you know the meaning of that word??

I don't think so.