(October 27, 2014 at 6:22 pm)Chas Wrote:(October 27, 2014 at 4:06 pm)trmof Wrote: I would argue that if we were talking about sheer numbers, Christians are much more likely to suffer persecution in the real world than atheists, but I'll refrain from opening a debate about that.
Good thing - because you have absolutely no facts to back that up.
Depends how he's defining "persecution". If he means "pointed and laughed at for believing in fairytales and/or for being gullible enough to get suckered into lies from bottom-feeding preachers", he might have a point.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'