by Tim Bonney » Thu Jul 16, 2015 10:13 pm
While we are talking about what RHE posted, I'd say that the whole "we are being persecuted" thing ends up looking just silly to people who aren't evangelical Christians.
Someone I know online claimed that Christians are being persecuted because same sex persons are able to get married against her wishes. Yet, a close member of her own family recently married in a heterosexual wedding and no one ever threatened not to marry them, not to bake a cake of them, not to take their photos, or not to do business with them because they are straight.
I pointed out to her that until you yourself are denied the right to do want you feel led to do then you've not been persecuted. Persecution is not someone else getting to do something they feel led to do that you don't like. That is simply, for them, the free exercise of their own rights and they own religion.
While some people are making up baloney about pastors some how being forced to perform same sex weddings, for some years pastors in denominations who support performing same sex wedding weren't allowed to do that in violation of their own religious beliefs.
So Christian really need to absolutely stop calling someone else getting to live their own life choices persecution against those who disagree with them. Such a claim is not only bogus is it comical, laughable, and makes Christians look like less than intelligent at best.