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me: progressives should be more accepting of religious people.

conservative christians: i agree. american christians are severely persecuted by liberals.

conservative christians: i can’t even leave my house without fearing constant humiliation and persecution 😔 2 timothy 3:12

me: man, it sure is difficult to be a religious minority in america. for example, musl-

conservative christians: i know what you mean. not being allowed to turn gay people away from my restaurant basically makes me saint peter

persecute the christians it’s been 2000 years it’s their turn on the suffering again

just because american christians are capable of being really shitty doesn’t mean that all christians “deserve” persecution. christians are already persecuted all around the world. churches burned down. people are killed. it’s fucking horrific. don’t act like their suffering is deserved.

i was critiquing a very certain kind of christian. don’t twist my post.

mmmm after thousands of years of genocide and colonialism I don’t…..how you say……care.

It’s important to remember that Christianity was never exclusive to Europe. It began in the Middle East and it was being practised there and in India and North Africa while most of Europe was still polytheistic. A lot of these communities are being persecuted today, like Egyptian Copts and Iraqi Chaldean Catholics.

This isn’t to say genocide and colonialism never happened because they obviously did, and this isn’t to excuse any of the brutality, but not every Christian is a white European or North American who gets privilege because of colonial history. Which religious groups are being attacked or not really depends on where you’re talking about.

Literally 7 Coptic Christians were targeted for their faith and murdered today, so please stfu about Christian suffering as a joke(?), please.
I have plenty of my own issues with Christianity (especially conservative, evangelical, and/or mission based types), but Christianity is a global religion with people of all colors, classes, and sexualities. Many of the global Christian community suffer serious threats to their safety. Even in America queer Christians suffer due to poor understandings of the text and sexuality.

These are things you should… I don’t know… care about about a human being?