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http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/3/christians-persecutioncomplex.htmlWhy Christians Americas most populous religious group feel so victimized
March 30, 2014 7:00AM ET
by Chase Madar
The most persecuted minority in the United States is not Muslims, African-Americans or immigrants. Its our Christian supermajority thats truly oppressed.
Verily, consider three anecdotes from the past few weeks.
On March 2, three Baptist ministers in Akron, Ohio, arranged for the local police to mock-arrest them in their churches and haul them away in handcuffs for the simple act of preaching their faith. A video was posted on YouTube to drum up buzz for an upcoming revival show. A few atheist blogs object to uniformed police taking part in a church publicity stunt, but far more people who saw the YouTube video (24,082 views), in Ohio and elsewhere, took this media stunt as reality confirmation of their wildest fears about a government clampdown on Christianity.
On Feb. 26, Arizonas conservative Gov. Jan Brewer vetoed a bill that would have allowed businesses to refuse services to people who violate their sincerely held religious beliefs for example, gays and lesbians. Fox News pundit Todd Starnes tweeted that Christians have been demoted to second-class citizenship in Arizona, an opinion widely shared on the right-wing Christian blogosphere, which sees Brewers veto as a harbinger of even greater persecution to come.
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Peacetrain
(22,880 posts)No one is going away..Christians from the entire spectrum of conservative to liberal.. are not going away.. The Jewish faith is not going away.. from the entire spectrum of conservative to liberal.. Muslims are not going away.. from the entire spectrum .. Buddhists are not going away.. .. Atheists are not going away.. Yadda Yadda Yadda, so forth and so on.. AND ALL WILL FEEL VICTIMIZED as their realities that no group is going to disappear becomes more and more apparent to them..
cbayer
(146,218 posts)Do you think there is a solution?
Peacetrain
(22,880 posts)You take individuals at face value.. As long as their belief system does not impinge on the rights we all take for granted for...even with a group they may philosophically disagree with..what they believe or do not believe is no ones buisness but their own..
I am a dedicated and committed to my Christian faith.. I am always up front about that.. but what ever my beliefs are, are mine..and I do not have the right to denigrate others if they believe something differently than I do.. and that goes visa versa.. That is the best anyone can do at any level.. is live and let live..
cbayer
(146,218 posts)I agree with you philosophically and try, though not always successfully, to maintain the attitude you describe. Until someone tries to impinge on my rights with their beliefs or lack of beliefs, I'm with you on the live and let live platform.
I have little tolerance for any of the groups that feel they must destroy the other. It's so counterproductive, imo.
Peacetrain
(22,880 posts)"I have little tolerance for any of the groups that feel they must destroy the other. It's so counterproductive, imo."
cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)And what rights did they impinge?
libodem
(19,288 posts)But it would only add to the persecution complex. I bite my smart mouth tongue.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)eomer
(3,845 posts)That's definitely what the OP article is talking about. Other definitions that I looked up said that as well.
So there doesn't need to be actual persecution for someone to have persecution complex. It's sort of like paranoia in that sense.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)further increase feelings of persecution, knowing that is the likely outcome.
Because sometimes people poke sticks at tigers.
I think I didn't word it very well, but my point was that.
goldent
(1,582 posts)to be a grand success