# Are Christians in America persecuted?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [January 18, 2013, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-christians-in-america-persecuted/647639 "2013-01-18T18:51:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 18, 2013, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-christians-in-america-persecuted/647639/2 "2013-01-18T18:56:22Z")

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I’ll post what I’ve already stated in the two other threads where this is being discussed. (Was a third really needed?)

Here is your definition of persecution:

> [@Where does right-wing paranoia come from?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-right-wing-paranoia-come-from/647551/72):
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> Christians know what persecution is, it’s what the early Roman Emperors did and what the early martyrs suffered, and, no, anything that does not rise to that level is probably **not** persecution.

Since I concede that the Christians in America today aren’t literally getting fed to the lions in the Colosseum then I guess I agree that they aren’t being “persecuted” according to your absurd definition of the word.

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