control the vast majority of the world’s
weapons of mass destruction.
No, that doesn’t seem to fit the post title! 😯
I lifted that quote from a six- or seven-year-old article by a “godless atheist” overseas.
Here you have more excerpts to prod your thoughts and entice your click:
Rising nationalism and fundamentalism around the world have meant that Christianity is going back to its roots as the religion of the persecuted. There are now more than 300 million Christians who are either threatened with violence or legally discriminated against simply because of their faith — more than any other religion.
I am no Christian, but rather a godless atheist whose soul doesn’t want to be saved, thank you. I may not believe in the man with the white beard, but I do believe that all persecution is wrong. The trouble is that the trendies who normally champion human rights seem to think persecution is fine, so long as it’s only against Christians. While Muslims openly help other Muslims, Christians helping Christians has become as taboo as jingoistic nationalism.
But just as armies from Christian-majority countries control Iraq as it ethnically cleanses itself of its Christian community, so the power of Christian countries is of little help to the Christian persecuted where most Christians now live: the Third World.
The Barnabas Trust knows of 3,000 such Christians facing persecution in Britain, but the police and government do nothing.
Christianity uniquely defines itself by its persecution, and its forgiveness of its persecutors: the Christian symbol is the method of execution of its founder. Christianity was a persecuted religion for its first three centuries, until Emperor Constantine decided that worshipping Jesus was better for winning battles than worshipping the sun.
To this day, while Muslims stick up for their co-religionists, Christians — beyond a few charities — have given up such forms of discrimination.
As a liberal democrat atheist, I believe all persecuted people should be helped equally, irrespective of their religion. But the guilt-ridden West is ignoring people because of their religion.
Source: CHRISTIANS – THE MOST PERSECUTED PEOPLE GROUP ON EARTH
HT: I thought it was persecution.org, but I can’t find it there! 🙁