""thankyou don for supplying the rationale and apparent justification for persecuting christians in atheist states.if only christians would hide their faith in Christ or deny him when challenged they could avoid harrasment ,arrest and even death on occasion!""

Hysterical crap.

They are persecuted along with other groups (you said it yourself), and the reason is that they challenge the Communist governments, not that they practise their religion.

You and Iona have been doing the same thing for twenty seven pages on this thread. You throw your religious beliefs in peoples' faces and demand they share those beliefs. and then get all hurt when they don't roll over and see things your way.

Be a Fundamentalist Creationist fruit loop by all means, but don't presume to tell me and all the other non Fundamentalists and non Christians in the bloody world what we should believe. We have our own faiths, and the fact that you and your kind don't like it doesn't say one damn thing about the faiths and the people in question, but it says plenty about the arrogance of your position.

Don T.