Have you ever been persecuted before?

Question

Have you ever been persecuted before? If you have, what is your story? What was the out come and what did you learn from the experience?

Answer 1

i grew up in a german american family on a beef cattle farm about five miles outside of a town of 1000 in the ozarks. when the kids at school found out that some of my family still speaks the language at home (an american subdialect called cole camp platt), i got messed with pretty bad. i was called a nazi, a kraut, a hessian, you name it. i always laughed at the nazi part, since i had a jewish great grandfather. on top of all this, i was the only rebellious heavy metal kid with piercings living in a redneck town. i don't know if i'd call it persecution, but fistfights were a weekly thing for the longest time. i learned to fight though, and i learned how to confront people without showing the slightest little bit of fear. i forced myself to become completely self-reliant at all times. i found out i wasn't a half bad scrapper, so i started boxing at the age of sixteen, took all kinds of martial arts, and even had a brief stint as a jeet kune do instructor for a while. so that's cool. i now know how to handle it if my future kids ever get messed with when they're in school.

and since you asked in R&S; of course i get funny looks when i ask the blessing before a meal in restaurants, and stuff like that, but that's small potatoes. far from persecution.

Answer 2

Persecuted? No. I have been ridiculed. Had my car attacked with notes and scratches, etc (Die Witch! on it about 15 yrs ago) I would have to say that was the worst thing.

Though I wonder what some people's definition of this word really is if they think being ridiculed is persecution. It's not. It's not like they're getting dragged out into the streets and beaten for their beliefs. And recently, the only one's I've seen losing their jobs or their children over their beliefs have been Pagans. But I'd have to say the majority doesn't know what persecution really is. If what they put up here is persecution, then I'm persecuted EVERY summer when people leave Jesus video's on my porch (I just give those to friends and family lol). Any time someone in here says "You're going to hell" would be considered persecution by these definitions. (Especially if they think reporting someone for saying "you're going to hell" is persecution)

Buy these people a dictionary or better yet... here....the site below is free and easy to use. If you can type in here, you can figure that one out.

Ridicule is not persecution. Being reported in here is not persecution... it's called "Difference of Opinion".

Answer 3

I've been persecuted for my Christian faith and morals too. The Bible guarantees that there are those who will persecute God's people. The best thing to do is lean on the Lord and pray, through trials and everything else.

It is sad, though. Many times Christians get the bias of, "insane" or some such thing because of the ones that call God their father, and know Him not. They commit heinous acts and give a bad name to every Christian. Nearly every large group has those people who don't really get it, or are just plain pshycotic. For some reason, these imposter Christians stand out more in the Christian religion than in any other religion.

What did I learn and what's the outcome? Well, it helped shape my character and had an impact on who I am today. I don't know how it would have affected me without the Lord.

Answer 4

Often. I was persecuted for being a woman and an agnostic by my abusive religious husband. I was persecuted by bullies at school for being studious, averagely pretty (so I was told), and sexually ambiguous/disinterested in boys.

I am now happily with my soul-mate. And yes, the persecution continues from the Adolfs, but not too serious, just threatening phone calls, spat at in the street/park etc. I do know gay people who have had their friends killed or beaten, and I don't ever feel sorry for myself.

I learned that people are very often quite bigoted, mean and uneducated, and for all those reasons they don't like me. I am not bigoted, mean or uneducated. I learned to keep both eyes peeled and always look for an escape route. I have taken self-defence training/classes and don't take abuse kindly.

I also learned that there are so many good people in the world, that the meanies are often outnumbered. Trust politics and religion to do the dividing.

Meanwhile, I eat, drink, live, work, love, share my fortunes and smile, because while there's always some bastard who will hate you for daring to live, there's also always someone/something to love or a reason to keep going.

Answer 5

Yes, quite frankly I have. I teach Sunday School in the Senior apt. Building in which I live and someone said that she thought the Christians who lived in the Building were a bunch of snobs. I smiled and told her that I was one of those Christians and that she would be welcome to join us anytime, that we would gladly welcome her. I said that we would never willingly shun anyone and I apologized if any of us had made her feel that way. I let her know that we were not snobs at all. I gave her the days and hours for Bible Study and for Sunday School. I was sincere, I was not being a smart mouth. She said she was an Atheist, and she turned a little scornful, she will be 95 years old in a few days. I still think she is an amazing lady, she is sharp as a tack. Her memory is clear she is very smart, and doesn't even use a cane much less a walker my goodness the lady even walks fast and stands straight. I had never meet an Atheist who had lived this long before. (Of course I would never in a million years tell her this) It did hurt my feelings to learn from her that she had such a negative attitude towards my Christian friends who would never say a cruel word to her. I hope I never hear a sweet looking little old lady say shuch hateful things about my Lord ever again.

"Father God, all that you give us is good. Help us to always reflect your love so that others will have a desire to know you......In Jesus name we pray. Amen"

Answer 6

I have had to live it every day for a long time.
My family HATE me because I am a Christian.
And sometimes I believe, they've known from the get-go that we had different Spirits.
I haven't seen my mother in over 20 yr and she helped poison my teenage son's mind when he went over to visit the practicing witch 3 yr ago. I haven't seen or heard from him in 17 months.

She has been 3000+ mile over here to see my brother, Twice, who I didn't know was in Perth at the same time as myself and my son were.
I guess after long trips in flight like that, it is too much to come and see your daughter and Grandson, who only live half hr away by car?

Yes Killing and murder (and a pledge put on a note wrapped around a rifle is just written evidence of how I could I was so wanted to be killed, amongst so many attempts and have been and was that close to death at times) a tad of what has been some of the things I experienced

God knows how Ihave suffered and I Love Him more and need Him more and more...

Answer 7

Long story short:

1. I Joined a mostly all male elite military training unit.
2. The men didn't want me there.
3. They made my life Hell to try and get me to quit.
4. I didn't quit.
5. They made my life even more Hell.
6. I became a bad-@ss!
6. Half of them gained respect for me and became my friends.
7. The other half hated me for not quitting and hate me to this day.
8. The down side? I've got PTSD now and my adrenal glands are shot from all the stress.
9. The up side? I am now probably one of the toughest women you're ever going to come across.

What did I learn? I learned that most people don't like change, especially if you're wanting to change something that has been done for a very long time. Be ready for a fight if you're determined to be the one to bring this change about. And to quote Sir Winston Churchill "Never, never, never quit!

Answer 8

I don't believe anybody in this country knows true persecution. Look at Stephen in the Bible. He was stoned to death for what he believed. Take a look at missionaries. Those people are persecuted daily. If you call a little name calling persecution then we have it pretty good!

Answer 9

I am currently being persecuted in the town where I live. I feel much like Job except I have lost no children. These people here are so evil it's unreal. I know at least a couple others from this forum that are currently being persecuted. Satan knows who really loves God and Godly standards and those ones he attacks with the most fiercely driven persecution.

Most all others, he already has them in his back pocket so he doesn't have to work to hard with them to do acts of immorality and wickedness. It is mostly all the ones who truly love God and apply him in their daily lives that Satan has the most problem with.

Answer 10

I have been persecuted many times. In my 25 years in the churches of Christ I had to carry Bible around all the time due to Baptist, and Pentecostals trying to convert me and telling me the church of Christ is un scriptural, so I had to defend my beliefs all the time.

It sometimes went so far that one Pentecostal preacher would loosen rollers and screws on my press and go to the foreman and tell him I needed to be fired. He did this because I refused to start going to his type church and proved from the bible that my beliefs were scriptural but in doing so the bible proved his beliefs unscriptural.This finally ended with the foreman discovering what he was doing and he got fired.

My own dad would tell everyone who would listen that I was demon possessed and he would try to do an exorcism against my will. He tried to break my arm one time because I would not leave the church of Christ.

I am now Wiccan simply because my beliefs changed and amazing enough I do not get persecuted anymore. You would think they would be more determined than ever to convert me now, but those same type people just walk away when I say I am Wiccan.
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