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True Christians are being persecuted by those who don't recognize them as True Christians In fewer words, according to the SBC's Baptist Press, anything that involves equal treatment of religions, or doesn't actually acknowledge evangelical Christianity as the One True Christianity, is in fact persecution of the One True Christianity, and a sign that our … Continue reading “True Christians are being persecuted by those who don't recognize them as True…”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,109,27,8],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-24649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-church-state","category-religion","category-zt-pc","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":128794,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/13\/not-all-christians-shifts-to-not-even-most-christians.html","url_meta":{"origin":24649,"position":0},"title":""Not All Christians" shifts to "Not Even Most Christians"","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 13-Nov-15 2:11pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The article makes (and occasionally fumbles) some important points.Christianity is not a monolith. 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