Christians forgive themselves

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I was trying to say that there are many reasons for "persecution". But no hard fast reason. Its subjective and selective depending on many, many factors. My experiences of it are on the net exclusively. But, I'm a bit intimidating in person and that probably has a little to do with that. Although my dad (atheist) and brother (aggy) have no problem getting in my face about religion.

And I'm saying that you aren't being persecuted: as you showed, persecution is being discriminated against or abused based on your religion alone. You aren't; you're being treated with hostility in a conversation about religion, but the reason that it's happening has nothing to do with the fact that you're a catholic. It's because you're being smug.

No. You are not the subject of persecution here. So you don't have that first hand knowledge.

Neither are you.

When did I say "not in the rules"? You know not to whom you speak!

But, that is not the "rule" of the Catholic religion.

No. I meant... we "both" have "no proof". But, everything exists.

I say if atheists were right, we wouldn't be talking right now. In fact, no one would.

Oh, I disagree: we'd still be talking, we'd just be doing so on the basis of evidence and the promise of future investigations, not the presuppositions of people making claims they don't intend to provide evidence for, like religions do.