And yes, there are issues of conscience well worth hurting someone’s feelings-also known as “offending”-over
there are ‘hurt feelings’; and there is the finality of the loss of a loved one by conscious choice...apples to oranges, really...
If it was easy, martyrs wouldn’t exist in history.
one hardly attains martyr status by refusing to attend a wedding...
That loss works two ways.
No one’s been burned at the stake yet. But Christians are losing their livelihoods and their property for the “sin” of refusing to decorate cakes to celebrate a sodomite union, or take pictures of the sodomite celebration. They are even fired (the fire chief in Georgia” for expressing their private opinion, on their private time, in opposition to the sodomite agenda. That’s persecution. No one, namely myself, even said that anyone in this present day, was a “martyr” of the type which was killed for their conscience. But there is definitely persecution.