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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_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_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":49301,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/21\/tim-wildmon-is-a-dolt-peaceful-christianity-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":24649,"position":0},"title":"Tim Wildmon Is a Dolt (Peaceful Christianity Edition)","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 21-Jan-15 10:40am","format":false,"excerpt":"There are differences, obviously, between Christianity and Islam, in particulars and in general thrust -- especially when you look at the centuries and geography that each of them spans. 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