Totally agree. Never said anything different. I would add, as I have done that whilst the thugs carrying out the dirty work perceive them as Christian, and the media allow for the extra shock value of having you mentally compare them to sweet old ladies organising a beetle drive in the church hall.....

The ones ordering the persecution invariably use the time honoured political stance of finding a large but not too large minority to let people blame for their ills, rather than the blame laying at the door of the ones in charge.

You see Putin with gay people, Eastern European governments with the Romany, Israelis with Palestinians, Palestinians with Israelis, UK governments with unions and in general, holy war has to be against other ideologies..

Nothing deep or meaningful, just happens, we all know it happens.

Of course, try telling Keith it is anything but because they are Christians. Go on, it's alright. I can get the posts up easily enough if he wriggles out of his own stupidity.

As I said, dragging it back to this thread. You use propaganda to fire up your soldiers to think their cause is noble. Snag is, the other side do too....

Oh shit, Musket had a song coming on, where's my earplugs?

The Second World War boys, it came and it went.
We forgave the Germans and now we are friends.
Though they murdered six million,
In the ovens they fried.
The Germans now too have,
God on their side.