There has always been a crusade against Christ and those who follow him. We need to realize that the world is not going to change to accommodate us. It is going to fight tooth and nail against what we represent.
We tend to think that this crusade is new because modern Americans don’t want to give up the consumer culture and the luxury it represents. We want it adapt to us, even though it is everything that Christ told us not to be.
True, there has always been opposition to Christ and His followers, but the opposition is getting more marked and more nasty at this time. No question about it.
Marxists have redefined “secularism” to mean authorative atheism. Yes, they always kill, torture and imprison Christians. We are the opposite of their world view. Marxism’s “culture of death” is no joke and they just got started with abortion.