Persecution?

[1689Dave]

We are fortunate in the USA for separation of church and State laws seeing how the State churches have always been the main sources of innocent bloodshed in the Bible and to a great extent in world history. Have any of you been persecuted in any way for following Christ?

 

[1689Dave]

I read about what Jesus tells us to expect from the world and the religious sector. So I feel blessed in how mild my persecution has been compared to those Christians who survived the horrors of the Reformation.

 

[1689Dave]

“Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.” 2 Timothy 3:12 (KJV 1900)

What is your greatest experience of persecution for Christ?

 

[Jason76]

Well, to be honest, many on the religious right want to revive church and state collaboration, for instance, with school prayer and ten commandments as well as the cultural war. Well, I can understand the feelings behind the cultural war, but church and state collaboration is dangerous territory.

We are fortunate in the USA for separation of church and State laws seeing how the State churches have always been the main sources of innocent bloodshed in the Bible and to a great extent in world history. Have any of you been persecuted in any way for following Christ?

One person in my family is quite hostile. Nonetheless, I can understand why maybe. A lot of Christians are obnoxious on social media with preaching hell fire and culture war stuff. Also, some close members in my family don't seem like they lived for Christ and maybe he doesn't like fundamentalists' Christianity - in that it doesn't offer hope for them, considering what they seemed to chose.

 

[1689Dave]

Well, to be honest, many on the religious right want to revive church and state collaboration, for instance, with school prayer and ten commandments as well as the cultural war. Well, I can understand the feelings behind the cultural war, but church and state collaboration is dangerous territory.

One person in my family is quite hostile. Nonetheless, I can understand why maybe. A lot of Christians are obnoxious on social media with preaching hell fire and culture war stuff. Also, some close members in my family don't seem like they lived for Christ and maybe he doesn't like fundamentalists' Christianity - in that it doesn't offer hope for them, considering what they seemed to chose.

I can identify with that. Once as a factory manager, I told the owners I would get a fair amount of work from the women in the factory in trade for a fair wage for them. They came through with honest pay, but in time it got me fired.

 

[1689Dave]

I remember facing 5 years in prison as a war resister. It took the sap out of me. Years to recover from it. My family disowned me. But Jesus said these things happen. The Sermon on the Mount calls for non-violence in any situation.