Two places in the world where you can go to jail for being a Christian: Iran and the United States.
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For one thing, I'm sure there's many more countries than that, including North (Fake) Korea.
For another thing, explain yourself not being in jail. Or the hundreds of millions of other Christians in the United States that aren't imprisoned.
Then why are so many Christians still running around, openly worshipping their god in the United States? Oh, that's right, because it's not illegal.
"Two places in the world where you can go to jail for being a Christian: Iran and the United States."
Cardinal Biggles: '...and Saudi Arabia.'
Cardinal Fischite: '...that's three, three places in the world where you can go to jail for being a Christian: Iran, Saudi Arabia, United States...'
Cardinal Goomy pls: '...and North Korea.'
Cardinal Fischite: '...that's four, four places in the world where you can go to jail for being a Christian: Iran, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, United States... I'll come in again.' (*Exits *)
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The twit didn't go to jail for being a Christian.
The twit went to jail for breaking the law and ignoring a judge's direct order.
If you cannot see the difference, then you need to apologize to society for wasting so much effort to allow you to exist.
Yet many Middle Eastern Christians would love to seek refuge in the USA. Somebody ought to tell them that conditions are terrible for Christians there, as there is a church in pretty much every settlement, the religion is taught and practiced in thousands of schools across the country, and that Christian holidays are acknowledged and celebrated by the state, before it's too late for them. I'm sure they'll have second thoughts then.
No one I know has gone to jail for being a Christian. On the other hand I am aware of some, like Kim Davis, who have gone to jail for contempt of court.
Surely you aren't confusing the two?
In the John Rylands Library,Manchester, England are kept the largest collection of 17th & 18th century Quaker records called the 'Midgley Collection'
One of the records relate to the Boston law of Quakers. The Massachusetts legislature in 1658 enacted a law that every member of the sect of Quakers, who was not an Inhabitant should be banished on pain of death.
In 1660 Marmaduke Stephenson, William Robinson, Mary Dyer and William Leddra who were condemned to death and executed by public hanging for their religious beliefs under the legislature of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Many more Quakers lay under the sentence of death, but had their punishment commuted to that of being whipped out of the colony from town to town.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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