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Persecution of Christians

posted 8 years ago by mizkex
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ENTIRELY HILARIOUS! The idea of Christians being "persecuted" is so hard to take seriously when we are all to familiar with, Crusades, Slavery-condoning, The Spanish Inquisition, Colonization of the New World, Witch Burnings, Manifest Destiny, tithes, schisms, child abuse and molestation, demonization of natural anatomy, sexuality (even mainstream heterosexual impulses), masturbation, ect. The most dominant spiritual influence in Western society which also owns the largest amount of composited land portrayed as "oppressed" is so laughable (AT LEAST FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A MODERN, SECULARIZED, LESS THEISTICALLY HOMOGENOUS world)

Even in unspoken ways, how the two priests are so clean while the Japanese Christians are FILTHY and he hands them the crucifix with their black hands, and his immaculately clean yellow hands. Only Christ can save you from your barbaric native land, as though Christianity and the rest of the world wasn't JUST AS barbaric.

[–] arnez88-237-649302 8 years ago

Only in Hollywood. Hell on earth.

[–] TheNazMan 8 years ago

There were very few crusades, and they were in response to hundreds of muslim invasions into Europe. Colonisation was happening all around the world, the "native" tribes in the Americas had stolen and colonised the land that was later taken by Europeans, the middle east went back and forth between various empires for thousands of years, same with Africa and east Asia.

I don't know millennials have this white guilt mental illness, it's very sad. Believe it or not but the world was not some peaceful utopia before Europeans arrived, in fact nearly all the modernities you take for granted are a result of European civilisation.

Too much state education and mainstream media rots the brain methinks.

[–] Prismark10 8 years ago

'"native" tribes in the Americas had stolen and colonised the land that was later taken by Europeans'

Did these native tribes commit widespread genocide like the Europeans did?

What is the taking of Jerusalem got to do with Muslims conquering the fringes of Europe and since when is Christianity a European religion?

It's that man again!!

[–] wulfthar 8 years ago

There were very few crusades, and they were in response to hundreds of muslim invasions into Europe.

That's complete BS, go to study History: the Crusades started when Bizantium lost control of Jerusalem and asked for military help from the West, they started in 1095 and finished in 1299 approximately, at least in Palestine.

Then you had the Northern Crusade to exterminate the last "pagan" population in Europe (the Prussians), and of course the invasion of the Americas, that was a crusade to bring Christianity to the Mesoamerican civilisations...destroying them.

The only one with a mental illness here is you.

Juliet Parrish: You can't win a war if you're extinct!

[–] random_guy85 8 years ago

Yes how laughable. Everyone knows that all Christians are terrible people with no redeeming quality. How dare a movie deviate from that narrative

[–] mizkex 8 years ago

I guess I should have been more clear, it's the organized religion itself the church and those who enforce the beliefs rather than the people who practice it. It goes for any religion like, Scientology. Christianity just happens to have been the organized religion with the tightest grip on the western world