what group of people have a persecution complex? do you think it's understandable that they do?

Question

why?

G, the it's understandable that Catholics feel the way they do. it's obvious that protestants are making up stories about them, they are just clearing things up. too bad, I can't be fooled by protestants, especially with their fancied history.

even though I am no Christian I don't appreciate a lying to recruit people.

I mean, a lying tongue

if there are priests who molest children, I really doubt that the crime is only limited to Catholic priests. maybe I should just ask the victims of pedophilia all over the world by any religious leaders.

Answer 1

Born again Atheist: you fail to see where Christians are being persecuted? My friend was just killed in the Middle East for being a Christian. Go to the voice of the martyrs website and see how many Christians are tortured and killed for their faith daily.

www.persecution.com


EDIT: I never said my friend was in Iraq. He was killed for merely being a Christian, nothing else. He was an innocent man w/a pregnant wife and small children. Stop assuming.

Answer 2

I don't think a persecution complex is a collective (group) concept...many, perhaps even most, people display signs of a persecution complex at some point in their lives and for some, it is their modus operandi!

I've been teaching college students for nearly 20 years and I see this EVERY semester...especially at this time of year (finals week starts Thursday). The whining happens all semester but it really ramps up the last couple of weeks of the semester. Everyone is to blame, except themselves of course, for their failure to satisfy the course requirements. I'm "too harsh" or I "don't care they they are a single mom or work a full time job or have personal problems or that English is their second language or [insert something to blame here]". Their parents, other professors, significant other, employer and any number of other people are responsible for their misery. I actually had a group of students blame me for their failure to complete the term project because, and I quote, "...you didn't make sure we were doing the work"!

I'm not denying that some people really are persecuted...sometimes solely because of their membership in a group (Catholic, Christian, Muslim, African American, female, whatever). However, just as it isn't paranoid if someone really is out to get you, it isn't a persecution complex if you're really being persecuted. A persecution complex implies that the persecution you perceive is largely in your mind...and I think this is an unfortunately common human failing.

Answer 3

Tango,

I think Catholics make up stuff about Protestants too. I think there are certain groups of people that have felt they are persecuted, maybe not themselves personally, but family or ancestors. Its how you handle it, you need to move on and realize that the person hurting you is a damaged, lost soul and forgive them, or it will eat you up and only hurt you. God Bless.

Answer 4

Applying your question to the USA, it's laughable that what they call persecution is actually Christianity being held back by the Constitution. Judge Jones mentioned after the Dover Trial that part of his job is to "protect from the tyranny of the majority". This from the mouth of a lifelong Republican appointed by Bush.

What goes on in other countries are under different laws. And for the woman griping about her friend in Iraq, remember who invaded there and unleashed the sectarian dragons of religious hatred.

Answer 5

The Roman Catholics of today seem to keep whining about how supposedly the Protestants hate them.
Even tough the Catholics burned alot of them at the stake in the first place.

Answer 6

Well, maybe this will help:

"She never broke when she was tortured with beatings and electrical shocks, and even when she was close to death she refused to disclose the names of members of her congregation or sign a statement renouncing her Christian faith.

But now, months later, Ma Yuqin abruptly chokes and her eyes well with tears as she recounts her worst memory: As she was being battered in one room, her son was tortured in the next so that each could hear the other's screams, as encouragement to betray their church.

"They wanted me to hear his cries," she said, sobbing. "It broke my heart."

Ms. Ma, a steel-willed woman of 54, was brave enough to tell her story of the persecution that Christians sometimes still face in China. Dozens of members of her church are still imprisoned, and those free are under tight scrutiny, but several church members dared to meet me for a tense interview after we all sneaked one by one into an unwatched farmhouse near Zhongxiang, a city in central China, 650 miles south of Beijing.

China is in many ways freer than it has ever been, and it's easy to be dazzled by the cellphones and skyscrapers. But alongside all that sparkles is the old police state. Particularly in remote areas like this, police can arrest people and torture or kill them with impunity, even if they are trying to do nothing more than worship God. Accordingly, Washington must press China hard to observe not only international trade rules, but also international standards for human freedom.

Secret Communist Party documents just published in a book, "China's New Rulers," underscore the grip of the police. The party documents say approvingly that 60,000 Chinese were killed, either executed or shot by police while fleeing, between 1998 and 2001. That amounts to 15,000 a year, which suggests that 97 percent of the world's executions take place in China. And it's well documented that scores of Christians and members of the Falun Gong [...] have died in police custody.

In some parts of China Christians worship completely freely. But in other areas the authorities brutally crush the independent churches, and that's what happened to the South China Church, an evangelical Christian congregation active here."

Answer 7

people who do persecution are threatened people, they feel threatened and the only defense is they lash out. Look at the Jews, God's chosen people persecuted Jesus because they were threatened by him. So in short, Insecure people persecute

Answer 8

Ask the molested children how they feel about Catholics now.

Answer 9

I keep hearing the christians complain about being persecuted. Other than being made fun of here on R&S I fail to see where they are being persecuted in real life. I just think they like to whine a lot.

Answer 10

Well the Jews but that's understandable and I don't blame them for it at all