{"id":40150,"date":"2013-12-20T12:27:24","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T19:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/20\/the-martyrs-who-cried-wolf-2.html"},"modified":"2014-01-07T15:37:12","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T22:37:12","slug":"the-martyrs-who-cried-wolf-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/20\/the-martyrs-who-cried-wolf-2.html","title":{"rendered":"The Martyrs Who Cried Wolf"},"content":{"rendered":"
Yes. This. A hundred times this.<\/p>\n

"Being persecuted for our faith is different than being persecuted because we\u2019re acting like jerks."<\/i>\ufeff<\/div>\n

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Real vs. Fake Christian Persecution: how you can spot the difference<\/a>
\n One of my biggest pet peeves in this world, is when folks in my tribe play the “persecution” card. On one hand, we can’t help it– we’ve been programmed to label any negative experience related to …\n <\/p>\n

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Yes. This. A hundred times this. "Being persecuted for our faith is different than being persecuted because we\u2019re acting like jerks."\ufeff Real vs. Fake Christian Persecution: how you can spot the difference One of my biggest pet peeves in this world, is when folks in my tribe play the “persecution” card. On one hand, we … Continue reading “The Martyrs Who Cried Wolf”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,109,378,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-church-state","category-intolerance-persecution","category-religious-zanies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135655,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/13\/tragedy-persecution-american-christians.html","url_meta":{"origin":40150,"position":0},"title":"The tragedy of the persecution of American Christians","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 13-Dec-17 7:06pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The tragedy is that it doesn't exist, but some Christians in the US are convinced it does. 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