Jade asked:


Personal experience testimony welcomed. Seems that all aggressive religion strains have three things in common:

1. they claim to be the only truth or at least the best purest truth

2. They claim to be the fastest growing religion in the world

3. They claim to be the only religion hated and persecuted by others

11 Responses to “What religion is the most persecuted in America and what religion does the most persecuting?”

1. Can I just change your nick? on September 27th, 2008 4:15 pm

   Satanists. All religions **** them

2. Bumble Bear on September 30th, 2008 6:27 pm

   Scientology is probably the most persecuted but it’s probably the leaders of the religion more than the followers and for obvious reasons.

3. mental1018 on October 2nd, 2008 9:46 am

   Most persecuting is Christians hands down. Most persecuted would be anything non-Christian, heh. Although, Muslims would probably be the most, then probably Pagans.

4. Jedidiah C on October 4th, 2008 12:58 am

   I would say that any of the three Abraham religions are the most persecuted.That is my opinion. And two of those three are statistically the fastest growing religions in the world. All religious extremes and non religious extremes persecute. If you want to focus on those people to support an arguement about religion, then you can. But if you look between them you’ll find very loving people, who suffer because of such generalizations. Anyone, who generalizes is not worth listening to, nor are they worth having a reasonable arguement with.

   Also I would like to add, that who is persecuted more then who is a matter of an opinion; a debate with an conclusive answer that will not satisfy either party.

5. Mossflower Wood on October 6th, 2008 7:31 pm

   Although not a religion, I’d say atheists are the most persecuted group. (Or perhaps Satanists, many of which are still atheists, though.)
   My reason for this is that, in a poll conducted in the R&S a couple weeks back… most Christians said they would prefer a Muslim president to an atheist one.
   Also, in several states, it is illegal for an atheist to run for a political position or testify in a court of law. Christianity, obviously, is the religion that does most of the persecuting.

6. crinkleberry8 on October 7th, 2008 9:14 pm

   All religions are based on man made doctrines to control and deceive the people with their pagan traditions, laws and rituals.

   Only the christians that are not affilated with a religion are the ones persecuted by other religions.

   The worst offender is the Catholic religion. 90% of atheists come from it.

7. The Lad Himself on October 8th, 2008 4:55 pm

   I don’t know who’s the most persecuted, but it is most definitely fundamentalist Christians doing most of the persecuting.

   If anyone tries to prevent the Christians from persecuting someone, they’ll be called communists or freedom hating anti-Americans.

   This is why so many Christians **** the ACLU – they stand up for people being persecuted.

   In recent news, a Bible believing Christian high school principal took it upon himself to indecently assault schoolgirls who had the audacity to stand up for a ******* pupil who he had mistreated quite horribly.

   Look whose side the Christians are on -

8. Enlightened on October 13th, 2008 6:37 am

   Islam is the most persecuted. Christians backed by the Jews are the most persecuting!

9. Loren is just plain Borin' on October 14th, 2008 10:40 pm

   I would have to say Mormons are the most persecuted.

   I am not mormon, but I live in mormon central (utah). In my travels around America it seems like a lot of other christians are under the impression that mormons are a cult or that they have horns, etc etc etc.

   I can honestly say that I’ve never heard a mormon say anything bad about any other religions. I’ve also never heard a mormon try and shove their beliefs down my throat, or profess to the world that they are the 1 true church and all others are wrong. That might be what they believe in their mind, but I’ve never heard them come out and trash other religions.

   It just seems like the other Christians (evangelicals, etc) look at mormonism as being some freakish religion, when its really not that bad.

10. ja1827 on October 16th, 2008 8:21 am

    I don’t think Satanists are the most hated.. they don’t have any real social or political power, and who really takes them seriously?

11. Mike K on October 17th, 2008 7:15 am

    Hello,

    The most persecuted has to be the Roman Catholic Church:

    “Bigotry against Roman Catholics, as well as the ideas that have rationalized such bigotry, have long been elements in North American politics and popular culture. Like racism and anti-Semitism, anti-Catholicism is a fluid, international phenomenon buttressed by political, cultural, and intellectual justifications; like them, anti-Catholicism has served as a means of ostracizing a social group to consolidate political and cultural power in other groups. Additionally, just as historians trace the origins of racism to the early modern period, so too anti-Catholicism dates from this period—a legacy of Reformation-era disputes and of the European religious wars prior to 1648. (With origins in the ancient world, anti-Semitism dates much farther back.) A distinguishing mark of anti-Catholicism is that it developed in tandem with the modern papacy, a religio-political institution whose activities were widely perceived as threats to non-Catholic religious and secular authorities. Significantly, since Roman Catholics were the largest U.S. religious denomination after about 1870, anti-Catholicism was thereafter aimed at a religious plurality, not a religious minority, within the national population.”

    Read further here:

    The religion that has done the most persecuting, verbally in this day and age are the Evangelicals starting with John Haggee who wisely is back peddling a little. Old ***** is another but:

    “John Hagee, a televangelist sought out by John McCain for political support, has repeatedly gone after the Roman Catholic Church, calling it, among other things, “the great whore” and “a false cult system.”

    As of today, Hagee feels bad about it.

    John Hagee, the controversial Evangelical pastor who endorsed John McCain, will issue a letter of apology to Catholics today for inflammatory remarks he has made, including accusing the Roman Catholic Church of supporting Adolf ****** and calling it “The Great *****.”

    “Out of a desire to advance greater unity among Catholics and Evangelicals in promoting the common good, I want to express my deep regret for any comments that Catholics have found hurtful,” Hagee wrote, according to an advanced copy of the letter reviewed by Washington Wire. “After engaging in constructive dialogue with Catholic friends and leaders, I now have an improved understanding of the Catholic Church, its relation to the Jewish faith, and the history of anti-Catholicism.”

    In the letter, addressed to Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League and one of Hagee’s biggest critics, Hagee pledges “a greater level of compassion and respect for my Catholic brothers and sisters in Christ.”

    Hagee also acknowledged that the slurs he’s used to denigrate Catholics are “rhetorical device[s] long employed in anti-Catholic literature and commentary,” should not be “synonymous with the Catholic Church.”

    Bill Donohue will reportedly accept Hagee’s apology.

    Cheers,

    ,Michael Kelly