Thinking it over, I think it's also relevant that a lot of the Christian mythos is based on "we were persecuted for our beliefs" (eg the glorification of martyrs), and therefore saying that Christians have been harmed for being Christians can be viewed as a pro-Christian statement, and indeed this sort of stuff encourages the worst sort of Christians in the US.
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Date: 2023-08-03 12:24 pm (UTC)Thinking it over, I think it's also relevant that a lot of the Christian mythos is based on "we were persecuted for our beliefs" (eg the glorification of martyrs), and therefore saying that Christians have been harmed for being Christians can be viewed as a pro-Christian statement, and indeed this sort of stuff encourages the worst sort of Christians in the US.