I think about christians that get hate just because of the religion they are following.
Christians that are hated aren't hated for being Christian. They are hated for things like their theocratic tendencies and their sense of moral superiority and exceptionalism.
Look at your campaign here. It's all about the poor persecuted Christians. Christians are notorious persecutors. Ask atheists. Ask LGBTQ+. Those are people who are going to dislike Christianity and the Christians who persecute those two groups. Atheists are fairly immune these days to Christian bigotry directed against them, but not LGBTQ+.
You're here pleading for more tolerance of their chief oppressors. You're asking why Christians are so disliked. When confronted, you'll give a gratuitous nod to them - "It's wrong to mistreat or oppress anybody." But that's not your message, and that's not your concern.
so you do not think some christians in the world are being persecuted and killed for their faith?
That is very rare. When they are killed for being Christian, it is generally for proselytizing where they are unwelcome. I just read about a missionary that went onto a forbidden island a few years ago and was killed by the primitive inhabitants there almost immediately:
The life and death of John Chau, the man who tried to convert his killers This guy wasn't killed for his faith. He was killed for his arrogance, which his faith taught him. He was going to save these people from Satan. He had a better way, he thought, and came to them uninvited and unwelcome.
So you judge all christians for what some christians have done?
I judge Christianity and some Christians harshly, and those Christians are judged not for being Christian, but for what they do as Christians.
But yes, if you are a Christian but don't condemn Christianity's failings, then you own them for wearing that badge, just like the person waving a confederate flag owns everything wrong with that culture if they fly that flag without explicitly condemning its bigotries.
Westboro is just some tiny cult with maybe a few dozen members. To say that they represent even American Christianity is rather ridiculous.
Of course they represent Christianity. They're not all of Christianity, but they are a part of it. Where was the outcry from the rest of Christianity? All I heard was people doing what you did here trying to distance themselves from them. Those people were contemptible, but I don't get that too many Christians are concerned about that, just that they themselves not be tarnished by association.
Almost all religions oppose those things [Abortion, euthanasia, same sex marriage].
But it's the Christians and Muslims who would impose their opposition to such things on others, which is a good reason to dislike them both and to work to diminish their cultural influence.
Religious prejudice at the state level has far reaching implications.
Agreed. In America, women are having to go out of state to get the reproductive health care they need, and books are being banned.
