Candida Moss on the Movie “Persecuted”

Candida Moss has a candid and critical review of the movie persecuted.

Now I have to confess that I’m certainly one to whinge about secular elites regarding Christians with disdain (some Aussie secularists are pretty scary). However, Christians tend to be mocked in the media and marginalized by policy makers rather than persecuted in any significant sense in the west. So over-playing your hand on the issue of persecution especially in light of world events is not altogether helpful.

Thus, Moss writes:

Given the amount of violence in the world—the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, ISIS’s destructive rampage through Iraq, war in the Ukraine, and actual persecution of various religious groups around the globe—it might seem strange or, I daresay, insensitive and delusional for any American Christian to claim that they are persecuted. And yet they do. Claims that American Christians are unfairly victimized, attacked, and persecuted continue. Some even think they are on the cusp of being martyred. Martyrdom, in this context, being defined as “mockery, slander, ostracism.” Or, as I like to call it, middle school.

HT: Jim West