• CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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        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.

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          They also think it’s persecution when other people aren’t forced to follow their religion, like when gay marriage is allowed

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            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.

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            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!”

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        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.

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    21 days ago

    Not on Earth, of course. But when you add up all the persecuted Christians orbiting Alpha Centauri and Romulus and Omicron Persei Eight…

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    So persecuted that they managed to colonize every continent and force their religious laws on people who were there first

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      I thought Mormons get their own planet, but other xtians don’t consider LDS “real” xtians, LOL, so there is that.

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            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:

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              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… 🤷

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                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

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    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