FBI’s hate crime statistics show the “War on Christianity” doesn’t exist

[Tinark]

The right wing insists that there’s a war on Christianity. FBI hate crimes statistics tell a very different story, however. Far from being the victims of religiously motivated attacks, hate crimes against protestants are almost non-existent, while crimes against Jews, Muslims and people of other faiths occur much more frequently, with more violent consequences.
According to the most recent FBI hate crimes statistics (2013), most hate crimes in the United States are not religiously motivated. Almost half of all hate crimes committed in the US are racially motivated. Out of those, more than 66 percent were directed at black people. Another 11 plus percent of hate crimes are motivated by an ethnic bias, such as a bias toward Arab Americans or toward Hispanic citizens. Altogether, attacks against minorities constitute more than 77 percent of all hate crimes in the US.
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Anti-gay violence is the second most commonly occurring type of hate crime in the United States. Contrary to the right wing narrative that Christians are under attack by the gays, the list of violent crimes committed against the LGBT community speaks for itself. Where are the incidents of gays attacking Christians? They do not exist.

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…about 17.4 percent of all hate crimes are religiously motivated.
Attacks against Jewish citizens are the most common religiously motivated attacks. Hate crimes against people of the Jewish faith constitute about 60 percent of all religiously motivated hate crimes in the US. Anti-Semitism is promoted and disseminated by right wing extremist groups such as the American Nazi Party, the KKK, the Christian Identity church, and a growing number of leadersin the mainstream conservative Christian community. Anti-Semitism is pushed by right wing conspiracy theorists, who claim a link between the ‘secret society of the Illuminati’ and the Jews. There are conspiracy theories about everything from the Jews and abortion to the Jews and Hollywood, ideas which are peddled by the likes of Alex Jones and Glen Beck. Many of these same groups spread the misinformation about minorities and members of the LGBT community, as well.
The second group that is attacked most often because of their faith includes people who practice the Islamic faith. 13 percent of all religiously motivated attacks are committed against Islamic citizens. That number is 5 times higher today than it was before 9/11.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/0...ime-statistics-utterly-destroy-fox-news-lies/

So, where is the evidence of attacks and hate directed toward Christians and that such attacks and hate is increasing?

 

[Nick M]

So, where is the evidence of attacks and hate directed toward Christians and that such attacks and hate is increasing?

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[lovemeorhateme]

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/0...ime-statistics-utterly-destroy-fox-news-lies/

So, where is the evidence of attacks and hate directed toward Christians and that such attacks and hate is increasing?

The 'war on Christianity' in Western countries isn't one of physical attacks and violence. It is an attack on ideology. A political and psychological attack against Christians who are being told to keep their beliefs at home or in church and shut up about them anywhere else.

In other countries such as some in the Middle East - see Nick M's post above.

 

[newbirth]

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/0...ime-statistics-utterly-destroy-fox-news-lies/
So, where is the evidence of attacks and hate directed toward Christians and that such attacks and hate is increasing?

you seem to be looking in the natural christians are of the spiritual...
2 Corinthians 10:3-5King James Version (KJV)

3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:

4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds

5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;


Ephesians 6:11-13King James Version (KJV)

11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

 

[Granite]

Please, don't confuse them with the facts! These guys love playing martyr. They love whipping out the persecuted card.

I can't tell if it's a masochistic desire for wish fulfillment or just a desire to "prove" once and for all how dedicated they are. Frankly I think if a lot of these guys could create a real War on Christianity, they would.

 

[chrysostom]

how about the

war on women

is that only during election season?

 

[Nick M]

These guys love playing martyr. They love whipping out the persecuted card.

And if you were told to convert to being catholic or lose your head, would you go through a ritual that your heart was not in, or would you be defiant and give up your cranium?

I know you are not talking about me when you say these guys.

 

[Granite]

And if you were told to convert to being catholic or lose your head, would you go through a ritual that your heart was not in, or would you be defiant and give up your cranium?

I know you are not talking about me when you say these guys.

Your hypothetical doesn't have much to do with anything. And by "these guys" I'm referring to the consistently whiny "my gosh we're being persecuted!" crowd in this country who wouldn't know actual hardship or persecution if it came up and bit them.

You do, Nicholas, manage to make one good point though (broken clocks and all that): what ISIS is doing to your brethren is actual, real, horrific persecution. But comparing that to the ebb and flow of an open society like ours is insulting to Christians murdered by ISIS abroad.

 

[shagster01]

You do, Nicholas, manage to make one good point though (broken clocks and all that): what ISIS is doing to your brethren is actual, real, horrific persecution. But comparing that to the ebb and flow of an open society like ours is insulting to Christians murdered by ISIS abroad.

Wait. Are you suggesting cake and flowers aren't the same as beheadings? But, but, but. . .

 

[aCultureWarrior]

The 'war on Christianity' in Western countries isn't one of physical attacks and violence. It is an attack on ideology. A political and psychological attack against Christians who are being told to keep their beliefs at home or in church and shut up about them anywhere else.

In other countries such as some in the Middle East - see Nick M's post above.

Well said Pete, although it's more than just ideology. People of faith are being fired from their jobs, sued, subjected to incarceration and even threatened with death for speaking out against secular humanism. While TOL's liberals point out that it's nothing like Christians in the Middle East are enduring, it has to start somewhere.