Fox’s Rachel Campos-Duffy Declares ‘Christians Are the Most Persecuted Religion in the Universe’ During Segment About MN Shooting
https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/foxs-rachel-campos-duffy-declares-christians-are-the-most-persecuted-religion-in-the-universe-during-segment-about-mn-shooting/
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shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works · 140 pts · 363d
MehBlah@lemmy.world · 127 pts · 363d
Christian groups want to persecute everyone. Projection at its finest.
aceshigh@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 363d
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 363d
No, they think not being on a pedestal and having their unwarranted privileges slowly peeled away means they are "persecuted".
They also think it's "persecution" when they cannot brainwash other people's children while in captivity at public schools.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 362d
They also think it's persecution when other people aren't forced to follow their religion, like when gay marriage is allowed
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 362d
100% this. They simply cannot comprehend that in a secular nation, their rules are for THEM and not for anyone else that isn't in their little book club.
But they don't want the country to remain secular - they want to "fundamentally change America" (remember when the scary Blah man said that and how terrified they all were - more projection) so that the rules of their little book club are imposed on everyone else.
aceshigh@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 362d
Equality for some is persecution and oppression for others.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 362d
Very true - I know some xtians just about lose their minds when a "world religions" class is discussed, or talking about "the" bible as literature.
The notion that their chosen lifestyle were to be put on equal footing to other mythologies in an educational setting is just mind-boggling to them and absolutely enrages many of them.
xtians: "We want religion back in the public schools!"
normal Americans: "How about we teach kids about xtianity in the context of other religions? And have "the" bible included as part of Western literature?"
xtians: "NOOOOOOO! NOT LIKE THAT!"
desmosthenes@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 363d
beat me to it
MehBlah@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 363d
It is a very common thing about them. More and more people can see it. If a regressive accuses someone of doing something. Its a sure bet they are doing or planning to do that something to others.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 362d
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.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 56 pts · 363d
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 pts · 363d
Why does Christianity, the largest religion, not simply eat the other religions?
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 363d
They've tried
ElderReflections@fedia.io · 13 pts · 363d
DmMacniel@feddit.org · 8 pts · 363d
I hope our thoughts and prayers reach those Christians on Alpha Centauri, Romulus and Omicron Persei Eight in time.
frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io · 44 pts · 363d
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?
ceenote@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 363d
Consider that the whole universe might not have been made for you, then.
ameancow@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 363d
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 363d
Pretty sure the first half of that book is all in on rah rah Hebrews.
NABDad@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 363d
Seems like that's God's will then.
Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de · 13 pts · 363d
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.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 26 pts · 363d
So persecuted that we get days off work and school based on their calendar
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 362d
My days off are Saturn-day and Sun-day. Like all the other days of the week in English, those names have a pre-Christian origin.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 362d
Yes but the reason they're holidays is Christian. And I was also referring to Christmas and Easter
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 359d
Yule and Eostre? The early Christians didn't celebrate either (well, some did celebrate Pesach to some limited extent). They later did a hostile takeover of the pre-Christian soltitial and equinoctial festivities, in order to make sure nobody had any fun at them. They also converted a number of minor gods into saints (mostly now deprecated by the Catholic Church, but some still hanging around in Orthodox sects).
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 359d
Yeah but my point is that NOW we have holidays when we do to accommodate Christians
nibble4bits@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 362d
Let's also take off Moon-day, Tiw's day (Germanic Mars God of war), wOdin's day, Thor's day and Frigga's day (Odin's wife).
salarua@sopuli.xyz · 25 pts · 363d
Neopagans, Zoroastrians, Jews, Middle Eastern Bahá’ís, Muslims outside the Middle East, followers of indigenous religions, Sikhs:
h4x0r@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 23 pts · 363d
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 pts · 363d
So persecuted that they managed to colonize every continent and force their religious laws on people who were there first
Matriks404@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 362d
Do we know Christians that live on other planets?
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 362d
I thought Mormons get their own planet, but other xtians don't consider LDS "real" xtians, LOL, so there is that.
salarua@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 362d
The issue is that Mormons and other Christians seem to have differing views on who counts as a Christian. Most Christian sects use the Nicene Creed, which includes the basic set of beliefs all (or almost all, depending on your view ofc) Christian sects adhere to. Mormonism diverges from the Nicene Creed:
Mormonism, on the other hand, seems to believe that Christianity is simply accepting Jesus as a prophet sent by God and the Bible as holy scripture...but by that logic Muslims would also be considered Christians.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 362d
And I'm sure Mormons and other xtians that are not necessarily Nicean xtians might just say to those objecting that they are not "true" xtians: "well, that's like your opinion, man..." Or words to that effect. 🤣
I could easily see them pointing out - and probably many have; I have not read Mormon apologetics, though - that the Nicean Council was extra-biblical and put to a vote in a political atmosphere. Meaning, while the Book of Mormon is certainly a retcon (at least in my view), it can easily be argued that so is the Nicene Creed.
It makes a lot of sense why the ability for people to read "the" bible in their own language was something frowned on and often actively stamped out - under threat of death, even. Once the people are able to read the supposed holy documents for themselves, they are going to naturally start having their own interpretation of things, as well as start writing more fanfic to extend the cinematic universe of the original text(s)...it also explains why the printing press was followed by an explosion of xtian forks (or heresies, depending on the viewer's position).
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 362d
hell, in the 90s mormons didn't consider themselves xtians. it's a new thing.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 362d
They didn't? You have a source? That's news to me.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 362d
Aside from knowing a lot of mormons in the 90s, i found this:
the person who shared it claims it's from a book called Tribes published in 1992. That tells me it's from The Lost Tribes (1992) by R. Clayton Brough, page 148
also:
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 362d
Hrm, interesting. I happen to know many current and ex-LDS and I've never heard them say they are not xtians, and I've seen more than a few chafe at being called a "cult" and/or "not true xtians", etc...I could see that above passage being read as lumping all other xtians into a group, but... 🤷
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 362d
oh yeah they will and always have chafed at being called a cult. the whole "not true xtian thing", that i saw them caring about around 2005 i think? there's been lots of "Joey Smith is the new Mohammad" over the decades
gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 362d
the Gelgameks practice Roman Catholicism
Ironfist79@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 362d
Maybe your god could do something about that. Funny that he chooses not to.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 363d
What about scientologists? Xenu's influence is far and wide!
Kirp123@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 363d
Scientologists have an entire Galactic Empire oppressing them. Like I think they win.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 363d
Oh boy nazis are gonna love this news
18_24_61_b_17_17_4@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 363d
WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CATHOLICS!
Maeve@kbin.earth · -8 pts · 363d
Catholics were persecuted by Nazis too.
Edit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_persecution_of_the_Catholic_Church_in_Germany
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 363d
Didn't they collaborate with Nazis, as well?
Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 363d
Yes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_and_Nazi_Germany
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 362d
And even more closely with the Italian and Spanish fascists.
Maeve@kbin.earth · 6 pts · 363d
Yes. They thought if they weren't a current outgroup, they were safe. Much like I see what's going on in the Global West now.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 362d
yep, then with the US government to suppress communism in Italy. All while raping boys.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 363d
LOL, soooo persecuted.
Archangel1313@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 363d
I wonder if this is how she felt when the Charleston church got shot up. Was that about "persecuting Christians", too?
FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 362d
Not persecuted enough for all the bullshit and self-righteousness they've caused
cdf12345@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 363d
Pedro is disappointed.
She’s piece of shit.
HubertManne@piefed.social · 9 pts · 362d
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.
Furbag@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 362d
If only saying it could make it so.
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 362d
They're about to be
takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 363d
Universe...
nozone@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 363d
Nani!? It's over 9000!!! Her persecution fetish just went super saiyon!!!
Gork@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 363d
Does she know that this isn't about Christians?
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz · 6 pts · 363d
"Christian" is the only identity these people have. Therefore everything is centered about being Christian.
DarkSideOfTheMoon@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 362d
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
MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 363d
The Gelgamek Catholics agree!
DicJacobus@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 362d
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
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 361d
Yes, this. Even with the percentage of xtians falling by about 1% per year, I saw that in polling, an awful lot of people still distrust nonbelievers.
I cannot wait for xtianity to fall below 50%, but the cons are trying to stave that off by force if necessary, it seems.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 359d
Those who think for themselves have never been all that well-liked.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 359d
I like to think of it as the null religion.
Linktank@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 363d
I wish.
LemUser@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 361d
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.
sturmblast@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 363d
Fuck all religions
AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 363d
My local tree spirit is saddened by your attitude. It's never hurt anyone
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 359d
Justice for genius loci!!
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 363d
Extraterrestrial life confirmed