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Archae

(46,327 posts)
Tue Apr 7, 2015, 01:25 PM Apr 2015

Christians are going to be killed en masse?

What bloody PLANET are these ditwits on?

Conservative Columnist Warns Of Imminent Genocide Of Christians In US

Submitted by Miranda Blue on Tuesday, 4/7/2015 12:48 pm

John Zmirak, a conservative columnist and senior editor of James Robison’s “The Stream” website, warned in a radio interview this week (as he did in a recent column) that Christians in America are on the verge of being violently persecuted like Armenians during the Armenian Genocide, Jews in Nazi Germany, or Tutsis in Rwanda.

Citing the case of an Indiana pizzeria that shut down after facing backlash after its owners said they wouldn’t cater gay people’s weddings (and which has since received more than $800,000 in donations), Zmirak told Alaska’s Joe Miller that “I think this vilification of faithful Christians could lead to violence in America.”

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/conservative-columnist-warns-imminent-genocide-christians-us

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Ilsa

(61,695 posts)
2. I have a distant family member who insists she
Tue Apr 7, 2015, 01:31 PM
Apr 2015

might get beheaded by the "mooslims" because of some stupid Revelation of John prophecy.

Behind the Aegis

(53,956 posts)
4. That would be a feat, given the vast majority of this country are Christian.
Tue Apr 7, 2015, 01:36 PM
Apr 2015

I seriously doubt any group will be killed en masse in this country. No, they are more content to limit our freedoms (Indiana/Arkansas bill, reproductive rights restrictions, gerrymandering) and kill us by continuing the "death by a thousand paper cuts." Sure, there may be a time when a large group might get killed, but it won't be like any holocaust/genocide.

rurallib

(62,411 posts)
5. These folks have hero for Jesus fantasies
Tue Apr 7, 2015, 01:38 PM
Apr 2015

believing that they are privy to special information from Jesus who will work through them save the believers. No doubt once the war breaks out our heroes will stand up to the side of Satan that is bent on killing them with a variety of weapons that they had to fight the establishment to obtain.

In short, I don't know the medical terms, but these guys have real fantasies about being some hero called on by Gawd to save the planet.
George Zimmerman had such a fantasy on a smaller scale that ended up in the death of a kid who was walking home at night.

longship

(40,416 posts)
8. And these people are today's GOP.
Tue Apr 7, 2015, 02:03 PM
Apr 2015

Either they believe this rubbish or they pander to it. This is the GOP ignorant, delusional, mad-as-a-hatter base. And that is also today's GOP. Only a fellow delusional lunatic, or an ignorant buffoon, would knowingly vote for them. Unfortunately there far, far too many of them both.

Lex

(34,108 posts)
9. OK, so they don't get the right to discriminate so they are the victims.
Tue Apr 7, 2015, 02:07 PM
Apr 2015

They are their own worst enemies but are too busy judging everyone to realize how repugnant they are to most.

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
12. Who is going to do the persecutin? 77% of Americans self identify as christians
Tue Apr 7, 2015, 02:48 PM
Apr 2015

I wish they'd get it that they are not in a minority that is being put upon.

The other 23% of us are getting a little freaked out.

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