Why do American Christians have a persecution complex?

Answer 1

I think, primarily because they're being TOLD they're persecuted from the pulpit.

And a lot of American Christians are like my dad. They're very old and they remember the "good old days" when "nobody" was gay and they didn't have R-ratings on tv. Hell, people didn't even have sex back then. They miss the repressive old times. They consider all that repression like a heavy quilt, weighing them down. It's comforting to them.

Answer 2

I'm not sure I'd call it a complex. More like, for my particular religion, an acknowledgement of facts.

We have been persecuted here by other religious groups, jailed, tarred and feathered, you name it. We've been hounded in the Supreme Courts, in which we've made sure to win legal rights for ALL religious groups, no matter of their denomination, as shown under the law. Around the earth, our members have been executed, herded into camps, banned, beaten and tortured.

I've been spit on, punched in the face, and threatened with a shotgun.

I wouldn't call that a "complex", unless you're speaking of the persecutors.

Answer 3

I live in Philadelphia and a friend of mine lives in Lexington KY, I am a Christian and he is Agnostic... All he sees where he lives is Christianity highly promoted, and people get very upset if he says he is Agnostic.... I see the opposite here... anything Christian is hidden.. I get dirty looks at best if I say I am a Christian and sometimes just flat out ridiculed. There was a Church here in the city that for as long as I can remember had a cross on it that would light at night and say "Jesus Saves" but they had to take it down because someone in an apartment accross the road found it offensive. You can think this doesn't happen, but it does. Every day there is vandalism done on the Churches in Philadelphia, but no one says anything about it and it doesnt make the news.. but God forbid something is done to a Mosque or other religious building and its front page news and "Hate Crime" attached to it. I think acceptence and persecution differ from city to city.

Answer 4

Not only are they told that they're persecuted, they're told that it shows that they're good Christians.

Strategically, it's a brilliant sleight-of-hand that dismisses all legitimate criticism. Someone expresses a different point of view, that's persecution. Feel uncomfortable about it, don't because you're supposed to suffer just like Jesus did.

Anybody else does it, they call it brainwashing.

Answer 5

I don't understand it - until there is imprisonment or spilling your blood as Christ did, I wouldn't call the American situation a state of persecution. It's more like discomfort and arrogance if not everyone agrees with you.

Answer 6

you have a element. American (enter virtually any team right here)s are starting to be to be so spoiled that any criticism or disagreement is accompanied via screams of "Persecution!", "Discrimination!". Ellen Degeneres (sorry if I spelled that inaccurate) and that i do no longer see eye to eye on ..... properly, virtually something. yet that basically potential that she could exercising her freedom of speech and precise to vote in desire of her critiques, and that i with mine. human beings in different aspects of the international in all threat look at us and notice our disagreements as basically a splash of jolly returned and forth banter. Neither has thrown a grenade or pulled a rifle on the different. the two have the liberty to precise critiques ON television, PUBLICLY!! In Islamic international locations, Christians and homosexuals would not be "taken off the air", we could the two be "taken off existence help".... you be attentive to, that AIR that we breathe and not utilising a 2nd theory! definite, residing in the terrific, maximum unfastened us of a the international has ever properly-known has spoiled some individuals human beings, and ended in us calling "foul" at lesser offenses than in different, much less friendly places, yet that could basically be the organic evolution (weird and wonderful, me utilising that be conscious...) of ways the debates unfold in a land of lots peace and the place justice of, for and via the individuals is the rule of thumb.

Answer 7

Because we are warned that persecution will increase and we're seeing it. Our Christian nation is rapidly loosing its Christian heritage and persecution will follow.

Plus, we can look around the world and see the rate of persecution increase. Millions are dying throughout the world....

http://www.persecution.com/

Could it happen here? I can envision it.

Answer 8

That's a good question, considering they've been the ones persecuting others for WHO KNOWS HOW LONG. Inquisition, Crusades, Slavery, and now it's the Jews/Muslims of the Middle East.

Answer 9

why are we always subject to persecution? I mean, even my wife persecutes me. Granted, I probably enjoy some of it in some perverse way, but then there's the times when the whips and handcuffs come out and I'm just not in the mood, you know?

Answer 10

My Christian opinion? There are some guys trying to sell a few books, get elected, and work for the media. We tend to believe (I don't by the way...) what we are bombarded with.

Answer 11

Christianity was founded on martyrdom--and it's the only vice the religion allows