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Batwoman said:
As always you people don't even bother to read what I wrote, instead pick at it proving nothing.

I was talking about Christians being persecuted in the US in this day and age.

Which goes back to Klinton's whining about gays being persecuted in this day and age. Acting as if gays are the only ones being persecuted.


Ummm...actually, theory9 did an apt job of dispelling that exact point. But I'll transform and add to it here.

You are trying to show that Christians are being persecuted because the victims of the Columbine shootings said they believed in God.

One problem with this, though, is that there are people who believe in God who are not Christian. Jews believe in God, Muslims believe in God, etc, etc. Your example shows the victimization of a few monotheistic believers, but it simply can't be narrowed to Christians.

Also, if a college professor mistreats me, or even all the African-American students in my class, stating that this is proof of the mistreatment of African-Americans within the U.S. school system is still a misleading statement. It's one occurence within, sure, but the statement implies a wide-spread problem and one incident does not an epidemic make.

You also make the point that prayer has been taken out of public schools. I say, however, that this is not Christian persecution. My first reason is the similar to that which I stated above: Jews pray, Muslims pray. Practicioners of other religions pray, therefore you can not narrow the affected group to Christians, as you did.

The second reason is that the act itself isn't even persecution. As an example: if the government announced that Black History Month would no longer be observed, this would not be persecution since there is no ill-treatment involved. Same if a company decides to skip Christmas bonuses one year. There is no mental or physical harm, simply the removal of a benefit (or, in the first example, observance), so there is no persecution.