What do you think is persecution? Tell about any persecution you endured?

Answer 1

I won't tell you what persecution I have endured - quite frankly, I just don't want to relive it right now...

But I'll tell you this - imagine having panic attacks every time you try to go to school or work because you know that people have nothing better to do than plot ways to ruin your life.... sounds paranoid, right?

For an alarming number of people in this world - it is a reality.

You try to go to your favorite bar only to realize that it has been raided. You try to go to the only church that will let you in the door and the preacher is telling everyone that "your type" is causing everything from hurricanes to the national debt.

You finally find someone you love and no one believes you - they say you are being tricked by the devil.

You find that the only people who don't judge you are prostitutes and drug addicts - lepers if you will.

For some people who experience this - In Egypt, Afghanistan and the United States - the final outcome is murder. Gays and Transgendered people have the highest rate of being victims of murder in the United States...
Why don't they talk about that on the news?
Because people know already... they are just unwilling to stand up to the hatred.

Then the final insult is that you read the "good book" and find out that the figure head of this nasty religion that has gone out of its way to make your life miserable is actually a guy who would have accepted you for who you are.

Answer 2

persecution is hard to define, some say that yahoo persecutes them by deleting their answers.

many christians claim that they are being persecuted because they are not allowed to force their views on everyone else in accordance with their scriptures.

i say that persecution is the reduction of social status of a group of people due to their race/religion/sex etc.

it can be the type faced by Black folks in the seperate but equal times.

or the type faced by Pagans durring the burning times.

or the type faced by women in the 1930 and 1940's.

as for me. I am a Pagan. i am of Native American blood.
i have never been persecuted. because i will not allow it.
the only way that you can reduce me is if i allow you to do that. it is mental above all. you may deny me the right to Sundance, but you cannot stop me from doing it. you may deny me the right to Ghost dance, but you cannot stop me from doing it. you may deny me the right to preform a legal marrage for a gay couple.
and you can stop the legal part. BUT NOT FOR MUCH LONGER.
just as with the slaves. the Natives, and Women in this country. Homosexual people will get their rights within the next 20 years. and then you cannot stom them either.

noone has ever stopped me from being me. they have tried. with medications when i was in school, and with threats of loosing a job as an adult. the only way that they can persecute me however is if i allow them to do so. I refuse to Fear them. I refuse to give another MAN that much power over me.

Answer 3

A good example of persecution is the mocking and mean spirited questions and answers that you see Atheists doing towards Christians on YA

Answer 4

When I was growing up my neigbors tried to make me eat dirt because I didn't follow the tennets of their church.
Now I'm forced to work nearly every Sunday at my job because my boss doesn't want to miss church. My boss won't hire anyone who doesn't at least have the appearance of a good church-goer and usually turns down a better-quolified applicant in facor of someone wearing a CTR ring. (For those of you not from Utah, "CTR" is the Mormon equivilent of "WWJD")

Answer 5

Persecution is having your questions or answers deleted because some uptight users take everything too seriously, and/or feel threatened by a bit of lightheartedness.