# Why do Christians — America’s most populous religious group — feel so victimized? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [March 31, 2014, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-christians-america-s-most-populous-religious-group-feel-so-victimized/685012 "2014-03-31T18:53:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 19
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2014, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-christians-america-s-most-populous-religious-group-feel-so-victimized/685012/19 "2014-03-31T20:00:49Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > I realize this is snark, but that’s a pretty good example. If a bit of internet snark is “persecution”, the word has no usable meaning. I don’t agree. Words have meanings, to be sure, but I usually take the dictionary’s meanings as authority for the proper use of words. “Hostility and ill-treatment, esp. because of race or political or religious beliefs.” (per Google) If you’d like to defend the proposition that on the SDMB, Christianity is NOT subject to hostility and ill-treatment, please feel free. I agree, of course, that the SDMB is not inflicting bodily injury, hounding people from their homes, or denying them job opportunities. But that’s not the limit of the word. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-christians-america-s-most-populous-religious-group-feel-so-victimized/685012)._