American Christians Under Attack, by Paul Brock

By Paul Brock, Church Militant, September 13, 2021

‘They will persecute you’

In a 2015 episode of Real Time with Bill Maher titled “Christianity Under Attack?” Maher, an atheist, opened up his show saying “Christians love to feel persecuted; it’s part of their origin story — but we’re a long way from them getting eaten by lions in the Colosseum.” As evidence for his lie of an opening statement, he then followed up by regurgitating the misleading statistic that 70% of the country is Christian, drawing absolutely no distinction between self-identified Christians and Christians who actually practice their Faith — a number that does not even enter double digits.

“Christianity Under Attack”

In 2015, 70% of Americans did self-identify as Christian, but even this is down from 92% a mere six decades ago.

And as of last year, just 68% of Americans called themselves Christian, one of the lowest numbers on record. …

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