The World's Most Persecuted Minority: Christians

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I have never say that all christians are good or that the bible have not violent texts.

But to say that 83 % of all christians are evil are just nuts. Give me some source to show me that you are right.

If so many christians were evil, they would bring more problem to the world, you would have seen hundreds of christian verisons of isis.

I personally know about 100 christians in Sweden, not a single one wants to kill people and rule over others.

Grammer? Spelling is not my strong side.

The make assumptions about 100% of humanity game? I'm in!

100% of Christians are actually communists who wish the government would come and relieve them of their property. They will never admit it, though.

It will be reintroduced with no revisions later this month.

I think John Oliver covered this at the time in a way to keep you from wanting to climb the watchtower. Just Google John Oliver and Uganda. Maybe watch the Onziema interview.

While the treatment of Christians in many parts of the Middle East are atrocious, there are many areas where Christians and Muslims get along just fine. Gaza is around 1/4 to 1/5 Christian (depending on who you use for the numbers), and most Christians there get along with their Muslim neighbors just fine. In fact, after the most recent round of Israeli decimation, the Gaza Christian community actually took in those without homes to the point that the UN camps were cleared quicker than you will see anywhere else in the world. When the more extreme portions of the Muslim Brotherhood were ramping up its attacks in Egypt on the Coptics, there were plenty of Muslims who stepped in to offer protection (and some of those same groups returned the favor when Sisi came calling to jail as many MB folks as he could).

And there are also plenty of dangerous and terrible Christians in the region as well. In Nigeria if there is a horrific slaughter, it is a toss up as to whether it was Christian or Muslim extremists. In plenty of the more dangerous areas of Africa, plenty of "Christian" groups have no trouble training up child armies to fight their personal wars.

I guess I'm just trying to say that the whole Christians are the most persecuted is not really presenting an issue that is even based in reality. If you want the most persecuted of the major religions, it would probably have to be Muslims. Not only do different factions of Muslims persecute each other (almost to the extent of the Reformation period bad blood on the Christian side of things), but they are also subject to persecution from members of almost every other faith, as well. For crying out loud, there are violent Buddhist extremists that have attacked Muslims. Even India's current leader faced some scandal about a massacre of Muslims that happened on his watch early in his career which resulted in some questions about whether he could legally enter the US. And as for the way they are often treated in the media, especially in the US, is downright obscene. Right here on WP Muslims get attacked even there are none present. Islam is frequently accused of being a religion of hatred and some pretty horrible things are said about ALL Muslims. Don't get me wrong, Christians get hit way harder than I think they generally should here as well, it's just that Muslims also have to take crap from the supposed Christians here.

Sorry. Went on a bit of a rant there. New apartment; renting from a racist sexist Islamophobe who seems to think that all white people want to hear him talk about the Trouble right here in River City. I actually deleted a half dozen paragraphs and just left the first few.

Is that some sort of reference to Stalin probably holding the record for genocide, and a lot of it being directly related to him making communist Russia an "atheist state".

Actually, Mao holds the genocide record, but Stalin is a close second. As for atheist statism, Enver Hoxha, who led Albania from 1944-1985, was the only leader ever to ban religion completely.

Adolf Hitler was Roman Catholic and wanted the genocide of all Jews!

He also killed a s**t load of christians including many catholics because of their religion, so it probably wasn't actually true. Hitler was psychopathic con-artist that would say whatever was convenient at the moment.

Regarding Hitler, it's difficult to be certain what his true religious views were.

He was officially a Catholic.
Him and the Nazi Party were relatively tolerant towards Catholics, Protestants, neo-Pagans, Muslims and non-believers, so long as they were loyal Nazis.
Hitler regularly described himself as 'doing the creator's work', but this doesn't inherently imply he was a Christian or motivated by Christian faith.
While tolerance and approval were shown towards Germanic neo-pagan reconstructionist movements, Hitler never expressed any personal devotion to these, suggesting he may have favoured them politically, but wasn't a member.
Catholic churches and Protestant churches that failed to support the Nazi regime were targeted by Hitler and the Nazis, but overall they were generally tolerant of Christianity. Some of the neo-pagan Nazis were less tolerant of Christianity, but they didn't set Nazi Party policy ever.

Hitler was pragmatic and ultimately more concerned about maintaining power and support than about forcing a specific religion on to the German people or their conquered enemies, although this doesn't imply it may not have occurred later. Since no overt religious favouritism was demonstrated and crackdowns on religious groups was largely tied to political concerns, not theological ones, it's difficult to say with any firmness what religion Hitler was or what religion he favoured publicly.

Chop your head off?

Damn, I'm surrounded by pigheaded ignorant Christan Fundamentalist who believe all sorts of crap... but I've never heard them justify it with that verse for it before...
And I'm surrounded by the kind of Christian that believes that if you aren't a young earth creationist then you are going to hell (yep, it's horrible... At least they're tolerant of the LGBT community... but if you have an abortion... or drink alcoholic beverages... or smoke tobacco... or play cards... or aren't a creationist, then you are going to hell... I'm not sure exactly where they get their theology )