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[–] shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works 140 points 5 days ago
[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 127 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Christian groups want to persecute everyone. Projection at its finest.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Only some Christians. I don't recall the Quakers ever having persecuted anyone. And the various Anabaptist spin-offs don't persecute anyone but themselves.

It's the ones with power that get up to evil shit.

[–] desmosthenes@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 56 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Not on Earth, of course. But when you add up all the persecuted Christians orbiting Alpha Centauri and Romulus and Omicron Persei Eight...

[–] officermike@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Why does Christianity, the largest religion, not simply eat the other religions?

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 11 points 5 days ago

They've tried

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I hope our thoughts and prayers reach those Christians on Alpha Centauri, Romulus and Omicron Persei Eight in time.

Where was she in 2017 when white supremacists firebombed that mosque in Minneapolis? How about it being legal to forbid Jews from enrolling at medical schools in Minnesota until the 1950s?

[–] Ironfist79@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago

Maybe your god could do something about that. Funny that he chooses not to.

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 33 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Consider that the whole universe might not have been made for you, then.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They have a whole belief system and a sacred book that tells them otherwise.

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[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 26 points 5 days ago (5 children)

So persecuted that we get days off work and school based on their calendar

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[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 16 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Do we know Christians that live on other planets?

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (7 children)

I thought Mormons get their own planet, but other xtians don't consider LDS "real" xtians, LOL, so there is that.

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[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 26 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Seems like that's God's will then.

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Thoughts and prayers shall help, right?

Edit: also, now is not the time for political action, we need at least 50 days from the last shooting, I think.

[–] salarua@sopuli.xyz 25 points 5 days ago

Neopagans, Zoroastrians, Jews, Middle Eastern Bahá’ís, Muslims outside the Middle East, followers of indigenous religions, Sikhs:

"Am I a joke to you?" reaction image

[–] h4x0r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 5 days ago

How many religions and cultures has 'christ'ianity wiped out again?

I'd tell them to get fucked, but they already probably have been, nonconsenually, by one of their religious 'leaders'.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 20 points 5 days ago

So persecuted that they managed to colonize every continent and force their religious laws on people who were there first

[–] FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

Not persecuted enough for all the bullshit and self-righteousness they've caused

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 9 points 4 days ago

oh. sure sure. of course. and their most perfect adherents like donald trump have suffered the biggest witch hunts in all of history. So sick of all those other religions doing the witch hunts on the good christian men whose virtue is beyond reproach no matter how many times they went to pedo peninsula or just straight out talked about it during interviews in their life. epstein files. epstein files.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

They're about to be

[–] LemUser@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

The universe is pretty big. Robin shot up that church school (armchair psychology) because religion and the religulous told her that she was an abomination and not welcome. Then tRump's go'ment did the same. I'm sure her peers did the same. Then without mental health access and weak gun laws and a thirst for revenge - then the MAGAts blame DEI.

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 14 points 5 days ago

Oh boy nazis are gonna love this news

[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

If only saying it could make it so.

[–] 18_24_61_b_17_17_4@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago (6 children)

WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CATHOLICS!

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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago

LOL, soooo persecuted.

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What about scientologists? Xenu's influence is far and wide!

[–] Kirp123@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

Scientologists have an entire Galactic Empire oppressing them. Like I think they win.

[–] cdf12345@lemmy.zip 10 points 5 days ago

Pedro is disappointed.

She’s piece of shit.

[–] DarkSideOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

It’s kind of true. Look the deportations, they are getting mostly people from Christian countries like Mexico for instance. There is an attack on a Christians it seems

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 10 points 5 days ago

I wonder if this is how she felt when the Charleston church got shot up. Was that about "persecuting Christians", too?

[–] DicJacobus@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Its not a religion. But the irrelegious, atheist and agnostic od the world are probably the largest most persecuted group. Fundamentalist Abrahamic relgions (sects of Christians. Muslims. Jews . Etc) view no religion as blasphemy

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Its not a religion.

I like to think of it as the null religion.

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