No. Christians feel persecuted because there is a vast media apparatus telling them that they are persecuted. There is no evidence whatsoever of large-scale discrimination against Christians in this country.
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Arno Rosenfeld
Interesting story that gets to the heart of why many Christians feel persecuted in the U.S.: The secular elite find many of their views abhorrent and uncouth
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...
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I wouldn't be surprised if most Christians felt a sense of ideological loneliness, though. Maybe even despair. Their beliefs are certainly on the decline across the US population broadly.
The rest of us don't want to have to ask about, and know about specific denominations, to get extra clues as to what beliefs someone holds
It’s all just gone too far.
PERRRRSECUTTTEDDD!
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"YOU WILL REGRET THIS!"
become conspiracy theories and hatred of others that drive any skepticism. I have friends of all religions and there has never been any problems between us. Oh, and btw, Democrats are Christians too. I am Catholic.
Commandments 4 through 10
Works of Mercy
Beatitudes
The core corporal Christian values are popular and seen as objectively good ways to live a good life by the “secular” community.
The spiritual values also tend to be accepted (1st commandment can create some tension)
The thought that Xtians are poor discrimination victims is so laughable, just try sitting in a waiting room in the south or midwest without being forced to listen to Jesus radio. It's everywhere.
They're not persecuted, they're resented- and it drives them crazy
im so tired
We invented purgatory outright and a lot of Hell
Seriously, though, who wants to hang around with Jesus fanboys wearing the method of their hero's execution around their neck? Bunch of weirdos.
Or do they mean “birth control is evil” which is not “traditional” for most Christian denominations.
American evangelical Christianity though *flips table*
However they are perfectly happy to persecute anyone they perceive as vulnerable.
When it boils down, he's crying victim because his religion isn't practiced by everyone.
That's a totalitarian view.
So some might object.
And everything else he said is wrong, too.
Christians, what’s one of the biggest holidays of the year just about everyone celebrates in December?
But it's not severely as bad as some other places.
Still I pray regularly for the salvation of my minority.
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That's just the Enlightenment.
"BUT DICTATING THE LIVES OF OTHERS IS MY RELIGION!!!!"
All their mythical hero's were prosecuted (John the Baptist, Disciples, Paul, Jesus) so they take something as minor as a 'side eye' look and fall to the ground claiming persecution
I know, boo hoo.
The ~persecution~ being described is simply people not liking them.
The whiniest baby shit imaginable.
It's not nothing.
And there's another side. More militant religious rhetoric. Sectarian politics and activism.
There is a real conflict.
https://www.hcn.org/issues/50-3/culture-idaho-protects-the-rights-of-faith-healers-should-it/
They’ve run people out of their churches (sometimes literally), & have no one to blame but themselves for the decline of churches.
They are mad that we see through their bullshit, so they have to resort to pretending to be victims to cope.
Almost as if it isn't grassroots.
Anyway, I don't think the media you describe would hit for people if there wasn't *some* truth to it.
The regressive views and Christianity (or in many cases "Christianity") are baked into their identity to the extent that rejection of any part of that is seen as a personal affront
Basically they're the snowflakes they claim others to be
The folks we see coming in our doors now are refugees from Catholicism and Evangelical churches that have become disillusioned
But there are whole denominations of liberal Christians, e.g. Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde who spoke truth to power at Trump’s inauguration. The “social gospel” is powerfully progressive.
The pilgrims were the same way, and it would probably help if we were taught that in school.
When you’re told that you will be persecuted, you start to see persecution where it doesn’t really exist. When you claim it you’re praised for being “persecuted”
No, "Christians," I am not persecuting you by telling you to leave everybody who isn't you the fuck alone.
But then it's always been a grift for the evangelicals and their ilk.
every minority in America: we feel persecuted because agents of the government keep trying to kill us
'The Myth of Persecution' by @candidamoss.bsky.social
I...immediately regret it. Just utter nonsense. Hardly a coherent point there except 'it's bad that I don't feel welcome and loved everywhere, even if I have shitty views'