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.
>>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.
Worse than crucifixion, throwing them to the lions, burning them alive?
If we started living for Christ instead of just using him as a decoration for our mostly-secular lives, then you’d see that the modern crusade against Christians is laughable! Now, that’s in the western world. In many foreign countries, Christians do have to undergo the kind of persecution that early followers had to endure.
Look at it this way: if some store declares “War on Christmas” by ordering its employees to say “Happy Holidays”, do we refuse to shop there? Perhaps.
But what if that store is the only place that has the special “must-have” toy that every kid is demanding this year? Do you sneak in, buy the toy, sneer at the poor hourly employee that has to say “Happy Holidays”? Or do you explain to your child that he didn’t get the toy because your relationship with God is far more important than one toy and one day he will understand?
There is a crusade against Christ, and most Christians are marching with the forces of the secular world.