Christian missionaries. If citizens stop financing Christian Missionaries trying to convert people and make the entire Earth only the Christ's Kingdom, the wrong view will retard. This Earth is God's kingdom not Christ's kingdom. The God can be called by any name including Yehova, Alla, Vishnu, Buddha, Zarasutra etc.

Proselytizing everyone is a big problem, but the thing is that the Bible promotes that. The other problem is myopic ignorance. I saw a guy on a TV show talking about religion and he said, "Jesus said either believe in me or GO TO HELL!" Jesus never said anything like that, nor would he.

The Bible and Christianity contain good messages which I think everyone can benefit from hearing and (hopefully) following, but I do not think that they are going to Hell just because they do not, and I think a lot of Christians should calm down on that, and several other, points. Mainstream Christians are notoriously judgemental and intolerant, but we are not all like that.

- Manodogs

but i have never felt "persecuted" on ridiculed here... really!

... between being a Christian and preaching it. Most Christians, I think, including the mainstream ones, try to live it without making a big deal about it. But there are many others who like to proclaim it. Gives them their jollies, I suppose. Trouble is, when they do, they open themselves to contradictions, to detected hypocrisies. And since they themselves have got all the press, their failings get the same press. And then are projected on the rest of the "people of faith".

It's the same for Judaism, Islam, Buddhism ... But since both Christianity and Islam began life as persecuted minorities (Christians as a forcibly-excluded sect of Judaism - most of the "anti-Pharisee" diatribes in the Gospels date from this schism, and are likely NOT out of the mouth of Jesus himself - and Islam as a monotheistic cult in a polytheistic culture), the sense of self-justification is perhaps stronger in these faiths than in others.

There's a reason why Jesus told his disciples not to pray in public.

every religion seems to feel persecuted nowadays-- it's a complex? but i can say yep, I am a Christian but I was never ridiculed here.. in fact most of the time prolly, i wasn't acting like one? IS IT ME ??? argghhh!!!