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Yep.\u00a0 That\u2019s about right<\/a>.\u00a0 Largely because we, in the West, have focused on the sins of Christianity so long, I doubt most care.\u00a0 Even some Christians.\u00a0 Many former colleagues from more liberal denominations had no problem jumping on the \u2018Christianity is the most evil belief in human history\u2019 bandwagon.\u00a0 When people like Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens maintain the everlasting admiration of our media culture, it\u2019s not hard to see why no one particularly cares that Christians are being targeted for extermination.\u00a0 If it were some other group, maybe.\u00a0 If it were some Christian based culture going after a non-Western, non-Christian culture, you better believe we would be pitching hissy-fits right now.\u00a0 But it isn\u2019t. It\u2019s just Christians who are beginning to be targeted. For years we\u2019ve heard folks tell Christians to stop bellyaching about being hated, loathed, mocked, ridiculed, and verbally attacked.\u00a0 Now they are being physically attacked and I\u201dm still not seeing a turn around from those who once said there was nothing to worry about.\u00a0 I\u2019m starting to wonder if it\u2019s not because they don\u2019t care, but because they do, and are firmly on the side of those doing the persecuting.\u00a0 Maybe not, but it\u2019s enough to make me wonder.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"