Free-Agent Smith
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I took it upon myself, with artistic exxaggeration, to edit this post to show that the hatred is as easily directed at Christians or any other group of people."Pagans" never think they're bigots. They just think they're right. And because they think they're right, they also often think they're the one's being persecuted when the people they would abuse, or others, object to such treatment.
Racial bigots, for example, really believe that they are superior because of their race. They really believe that people of the race that they're scape-goating are inherently stupid, lazy, shiftless, and morally weak, etc. They don't believe that they're being bigots because they don't believe that they "hate" these scape-goats. They can't see their own hatred because they have thoroughly convinced themselves that all their derogatory ideas about these other people are based on the truth "or at least some form of the truth". They can't see that they've made it all up, and that they're unjustly persecuting other people as a result. In fact, a lot of bigots will even convince themselves that they're some sort of martyr, just doing their sad duty as they lynch the errant nigger, or burn a witch at the stake, or gun down a train load of Jews. Or in the less extreme cases, they busily work to deny other people their freedom, their livelihood, their protections under the law, and their dignity. Bigots never think they're bigots because they always think they're right, and they don't understand (and don't want to understand) that it's exactly this assumption of their own righteousness that causes them to be bigots in the first place.
I don't hate any of the non-Christian people here. I will say that I don't agree with your belief systems or perspectives but that is a right I am allowed to voice. By that same right, I am also allowed to not accept it also. Christians are persecuted because we cherish the lives of the innocents like children and because we choose to protect their rights also, whether they have been born or still in the womb.
Christians are persecuted for their system of beliefs and moral because it limits the actions of others, especially when it could result in more harm than good. Christians believe that sexuall immorality can lead to many problems that otherwise could be easily avoided if sex is left between two monogomous adults rather than homosexuals, pedophiles, child molestors and or rapists.
Christians feel the prejudice when they are mocked for showing their love, loyalty and faithfullness to the one true God. Christians have been hated because of those who have choosen to use God as a shield to try and hide their cruel intentions towards others. For example; the Spanish Inquisition slaughtered conservative Christians calling them heretics, the Roman Empire fed Christians to lions for entertainment, some were cut open and their body cavity stuffed with corn and fed to pigs.
Christians are hated because they want to take actions that could prevent possible harm in the future, for example when we support the death penalty. Why would anyone want to endager more lives by letting murderers, rapists, child molesters or terrorists go free?