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1/ When I was a Christian, we believed that we were persecuted. Any time there was a high profile killing of a Christian, we heard about it. Any bad thing that happened to Christians was fed through a narrative that the world was out to get us because they hated us.

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That’s interesting that there was kind of a victim complex. I mean there is definitely a lot of mention of persecution in circles I’m in but it’s usually about persecution in the past like the huguenots or Christians in the Collosseum. There isn’t real persecution in the US.

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Generally, in the reformed circles that I’m in, there is kind of an embarrassment to call the minor slights we occasionally experience persecution considering what past Christians went through. It’s just interesting to me how different your experience was.

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We processed legal action in the US as persecution; like attempts to get the 10 commandments taken out of government buildings or evolution taught in schools or abortion. Does your community process this as persecution or no?

6:07 AM · May 31, 2020

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Yeah, I’ve definitely heard that kind of stuff. That’s a good point. Maybe since I grew up in a more liberal state, I heard less. I also grew up with a lot of homeschooled people, so we didn’t care much about prayer in school and that kind of stuff since it didn’t affect us.

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I mean i and most of the kids who we went to church with were homeschooled but we still heard it. But if you were more liberal then maybe that helped? Also did you hear about out-of-country stuff like whenever christians get bombed in middle eastern countries

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