Christianity; the World's Most Violently Persecuted Religion

[Thumpalumpacus]

[...] that's just homophobic bigotry, that bigotry however is a choice people make, as is the adherence to a religion.

Without trying to derail this thread, I just want to say that I'm not sure that adherence to a religion is a choice, insofar as adherents tend to be raised from youth in this or that religion before they're able to think through for themselves the ramifications.

I know I was indoctrinated, and that indoctrination was only broken because I saw the contradictions between my beliefs and the real world. At that point, sure, there's a choice to be made. But not everyone is confronted with circumstances which bring them to that point, and so remain in thrall to their indoctrination without having made any choice at all.

Conversions are a thing as well that we shouldn't ignore, but regarding theists, conversionists are, I suspect, a minority perhaps as small as atheists.