When it comes to religious persecution...?

Question

...who is really being persecuted?

And who are the persecutors?

No bible copy and pasting, please. I want real answers with some thought put into them.

(Only got two answers on this last time, so I'm posting it again.)

Answer 1

One of the problems with this, I believe, is perspective. If you believe that your religion is the only correct one, then it stands to reason that, from that perspective, it's the only one that can be persecuted. It's sorta silly to talk about persecuting the worship of false gods.

So the perspective in a lot of places is, "My religion is persecuted because other people won't let us convert everybody. Your religion is not persecuted, even though it's getting similar treatment, because you worship a false god."

Talking about persecution of atheists by theists or vice versa is even more complex, since the differing goals of the two groups (insofar as they actually are groups) make it at least a little bit of a apples vs. oranges phenomenon.

As an atheist, I'd like to see an acknowlegement that the US government is not a Christian government, because the government represents the people, and not all Americans are Christians. I see putting religion in government to be the equivalent of putting religion in science classes - it's silly and of dubious value and constitutionality.

Answer 2

11 Timothy 3:12 In fact those who live a godly life will be presecuted.

There is a magazine called voice of the Matrys of the christians in the world getting persecuted or killed for thier faith in Jesus.

I put this Bible verse in this post to show that even God says you will be presecuted for living a godly life.

When my pastor was a live he said this christians do not have it easy a lot of times they are oppressed in times of trouble.

I have been persecuted for my faith for being prolife, not having sex with my husband until after we were married
I was not going to give my ex boyfriends what they wanted just to make them happy the Bible says not to cast your pearls before swine.

The persecutors are ususally miserable, angry and fruestarted who love to instigate or cause trouble my husband was persecuted at his last job for being a christian and being against cursing and using bad words.

Presecutors will go out of thier way to hurt christians and be mean and when I got promoted in 2001 at my job the claws came out people are very jealous and spiteful and I was persecuted big time. And when there were layoffs the persecutors were astonished and could not imagine why they were let go.

One thing about being persecuted it is the people that ARE making a difference that are being persecuted not the people in life who dont say anything be anyting or aspire to anything. I hope this helps this was a great post Girl Wonder.

Answer 3

Jews are persecuted in their own country of Israel. I could not believe it. The safe haven for all Jews in the world. Christians have been persecuted since the beginning and are still today. They will continue persecuting Christians until Jesus comes back. I would include atheist in this group but they are lacking a religion. Muslims are persecuted by everyone because of the fanatical faction. All religions that cause fear in others will be persecuted. Christians cause fear in people who are non-beleivers because of the what if factor. The fanatical faction of Muslims cause fear because they want everyone to die that are not Muslims. Jews are the only ones I can not figure out.

Answer 4

Wow, 'Patrone07' , You are sooo Funny!!

According to history,The persecutors were usually of Chrisitan/Catholic faith.
Want some history??
Many persecutions of Jews,for example, in the name of Christianity occurred, notably during the Crusades when Jews all over Germany were massacred and a series of expulsions from England, Germany, France, and, in the largest expulsion of all, Spain. Jews were frequently tried and put to death in Europe especially,above all,Spain.

In the Old Testament, God commands that the temples, idols, and sacred groves of the pagan non-believers be destroyed, and that those that follow other gods in the territory of God's people should be killed! How nice.

According to the Christian Gospels, Jesus forbade to hate (cf. Luke 14:26, Revelation 2:6). Persecution implies hate.How contradicting.

Constantius, also a Christian, decreed that all pagan temples in the empire be immediately closed and warned that anyone who dared still offer sacrifices of worship to the once-revered gods and goddesses in these temples were to be put to death. Similarly, any governor to refused to enforce this decree was also to be punished.

In fully Christian Europe there were a number of persecutions directed against Jews and Christian heretics. The Crusades, launched against the Muslim middle-east to "liberate" Jerusalem, have also been interpreted by some as an example of religious persecution. There were massacres of Muslims and Jews when Jerusalem was taken by Crusaders in 1099.

I must say,KNOWLEDGE is POWERFUL!!

Answer 5

Religious persecution is what the Pagans and Wiccans are facing right now trying to get the Veterans Administration to adopt the Pentacle as our symbol of faith. We have had warriors give their lives to protect our and your religious freedom, but it seems the other religions don't feel that our symbol is nice enough to be put on our dead soldier's memorials.

This fight has been 9 years in the fighting and finally we are being forced to take the VA to court to force them to adopt our symbol. This country is based on religious freedom, but the religious right for the moment want everyone to think that freedom was only meant to cover Christian religions. I feel sorry for them seeing they have been forced to accept Atheists, Humanists and odd versions of Korean religions.

Instead of the religious right booing and misrepresenting us, they should be saying they welcome our religious warriors fighting for all American's freedom. The five pointed star is represented 50 times on the American flag. Just because ours is woven doesn't mean anything terrible. The symbol is the symbol of protection, not our worship of the Christian devil!

Answer 6

It completely depends on who exactly is in this argument but God tells us that His followers will be persecuted by the world, and you don't want Bible copy and pasting but when it comes down to it His Word is all that really matters

Answer 7

Anyone who is a member of a minority belief system is going to be persecuted.

No, Christians, you are NOT persecuted, unless you're living in a Muslim or communist country. Hellooo, if you're a Christian in the USA, YOUR KIND RUN THE COUNTRY. That is the OPPOSITE of persecution.

Being made fun of on South Park is not persecution.

Pagans, Satanists, ah ... Muslims in America ...

Atheists heavily are persecuted for not having a religion. I'm still in the atheist closet, in fact.

Answer 8

Christian persecution is a self done to self thing. I don't see other religions in this country trying get their beliefs put in schools, passed into law, or even attack Christian belief systems. Christians even threaten people for speaking out against Christianity.

Christian actually think their religion don't fall under the definition of a cult because of their shear numbers.

Answer 9

Persecution of the self by the self. It's a tragic religion otherwise known as not loving yourself, and it is the major cause of depression and isolation.

Answer 10

Anyone is vulnerable to persecuting others, and all of us can be victims of persecution.

I know that that sounds vague, but if you look in any history textbook you'll find that persecution is something, unfortunately, that is common in almost every society.