I am always leery of charts which list numbers of countries which persecute each particular religion, as this article does. To state a number instead of a particular country gives us a false sense of what's going on. For instance, if we state five countries persecute Christians as well as Buddhists, it is vastly different when we discover the populations of China and Russia as part of the Christian list, but the five countries for Buddhists include countries with populations significantly smaller. In other words, just because more countries persecute a particular religion, it doesn't follow that more people persecute them, or that more members of a particular religion are persecuted. I would much rather see specific relative percentages as a comparisons, but that's just me. This is how we tell an incomplete story. It would be like the media showing two competing political candidates at podiums, yet never showing that one is addressing a crowd barely filling a high school gymnasium of a hundred while the other is addressing a packed stadium of thousands. Did they both fill their venues? Yes, but only one obviously has the voter's ear.
To read the rest of this post on persecution, please follow this link to my blog, “The Path”: Life under the Sword: Christian Persecution
It is the challenge of each person to overcome fears that lead to unjust persecution of others: be either party the majority or minority.
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