With violence at houses of worship grabbing headlines, more U.S. churches are relying on members of the flock — and even pastors — to defend the congregation in case of a mass-shooter attack.
A growing number of conservative Christians also see it as their spiritual duty to pack in the pews and get firearms training.
“Religion and guns have become intimately entangled over the past few years,” said Ryan Burge, a political scientist and professor at Washington University in St. Louis.
In a 2022 survey by the Tennessee-based evangelical research firm Lifeway Research, U.S. clergy said they had become more reliant on armed parishioners for security. Only 21% said they would prohibit firearms in their house of worship, down from 27% in 2019. Fifty-four percent supported the idea of armed congregants, up from 45%.
— Deena Yellin in More Christian leaders are welcoming guns in church
“Fifty-four percent supported the idea of armed congregants, up from 45%.”
44% is “up” from 45%?
The author got it wrong.
Its 45% up from 44%.
Reading comprehension not your strong suit?
Careful. Poke that bear and you risk making him unleash another twenty comments and YT links down the page.
well…since you asked…
I didn’t post that.
Left wing killers: Bombshell FDA Memo Proves Biden Covered Up Pediatric COVID Vaccine Deaths.
ht* tps://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/05/13/bombshell-fda-memo-proves-biden-covered-up-pediatric-covid-vaccine-deaths-n4952818
You just gotta continue lying about the facts:
“The claim that an FDA memo proves the Biden administration “covered up” pediatric COVID-19 vaccine deaths is based on an internal memo from November 2025 written by Dr. Vinay Prasad, then director of the FDA’s vaccine division. While the memo asserted that at least 10 children died “after and because of receiving” the vaccine, the claims have been heavily criticized by the medical community for a lack of supporting data and evidence of a cover-up.“
I hope you are enjoying your $5/gallon gas, of course you’ll never ever be in the $1 billion ballroom that you will be forced to pay for but you can enjoy the $13 million paint job on the reflecting pool and $13 million arch in DC.
Personally, I’m wondering how you feel about the $1 trillion price tag for Trump‘s Operation Epstein Fury…
Hey look everyone, another ‘Miner49r’ has shown us he can’t read and comprehend and doesn’t understand what context means.
and WoW! Miner49r. Does your left wing mental illness know how to post anything but false and disingenuous and lacking context and lies?
I was going to post on each if the things you bought up, but the SNW ghost post thing doesn’t allow it so I’ll just give examples to keep it short and maybe it will post.
Example: The ballroom is costing around $400 million not $1 billion, and no tax dollars will be used and its privately funded.
Example: The democrats wanted to spend $300 million on the reflecting pool to replace the stone. Obama spent $34 million on it in 2012 and it didn’t fix anything actually. A stone replacement would have wayyy too expensive plus there are some issues it would not solve. Trumps solution (currently) costs ~$13.1 million and it solves the previous issues too.
Example: I’m wondering how you feel about the thousands of Americans Iran’s terrorism has murdered. More Americans have been killed by Iran than any other terrorist regime on Earth. I’m wondering how you feel about the recent ~40,000 citizens of Iran that Iran murdered. I’m wondering how you feel about the more than $15 Trillion democrats and democrat presidents have given to Iran over the last three Democrat president administrations.
“The ballroom is costing around $400 million not $1 billion, and no tax dollars will be used and its privately funded”
nope taxpayer funds for the ballroom, really? Except for the $1 billion taxpayer funds that will be used for the ballroom project:
“Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, has released a long-term immigration and border patrol funding bill that includes $1 billion earmarked for security improvements accompanying the overall ballroom project.
The legislation states that the money is earmarked “for the purposes of security adjustments and upgrades, including within the perimeter fence of the White House Compound to support enhancements by the United States Secret Service relating to the East Wing Modernization Project, including above-ground and below-ground security features.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/republicans-propose-1-billion-taxpayer-dollars-secure-trump-ballroom-rcna343637
You know, under Joe Biden’s administration the strait of Hormuz was open, and shipping moved without any danger or toll charges.
Today, Iran is in charge of the straits, shipping is not moving and gas average price in the US is approaching $5/gallon.
Remember just last week when Donald Trump said “when oil prices are up we make a lot of money”.
He didn’t mean you, he was talking about him and his billionaire buddies in the Epstein class.
“$1 billion earmarked for security improvements accompanying the overall ballroom project”
This is a security structure under the ballroom area. A separate project that was originally planned in the Obama administration but wasn’t funded. The ball room is a separate project that happens to be over that area and the ballroom is privately funded and no tax dollars for it.
“You know, under Joe Biden’s administration the strait of Hormuz was open, and shipping moved without any danger or toll charges.”
And gas prices were still up under Biden and Biden was lying about the economy and inflation AND paying Iran while their terrorism was slaughtering thousands and the democrats were stealing US tax payer dollars and laundering it through USAID to NGO’S that were using it to attack our country.
“nope taxpayer funds for the ballroom, really? Except for the $1 billion taxpayer funds that will be used for the ballroom project:
“Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, has released a long-term immigration and border patrol funding bill that includes $1 billion earmarked for security improvements accompanying the overall ballroom project.”
You used a left wing news outlet, and don’t know how to read and don’t understand context. See the word “accompanying”?
The ballroom is a separate project. Its not using tax payer dollars and is privately funded.
The “$1 billion earmarked for security improvements” – this is an underground ‘security structure’ and things to go with that. It was originally planned during the Obama administration but they didn’t go through with it. It would have necessitated tearing down the east wing.
The ballroom just so happens to basically sit over the underground security structure area so the overall ballroom project construction is “accompanying” the construction of the security structure.
Learn to read and comprehend Miner49er, stop it with your ‘confirmation bias’ reading and learn what context and actual research means and stop lying.
It is 100% false that “$1 billion taxpayer funds that will be used for the ballroom project”.
“You know, under Joe Biden’s administration the strait of Hormuz was open, and shipping moved without any danger or toll charges.
Today, Iran is in charge of the straits, shipping is not moving and gas average price in the US is approaching $5/gallon.
Remember just last week when Donald Trump said “when oil prices are up we make a lot of money”.”
Gee whiz, ya think you could be any more false and disingenuous Miner49er?
Yes, President Donald Trump stated on March 12, 2026, that “when oil prices go up, we make a lot of money,”. He was talking about U.S. produced oil. The U.S. is the world’s largest oil producer. When the price of U.S. oil goes up, the country does make a lot of money and it results in lower prices at the pumps here in the U.S..
But basically; the problem is that its offset by the price of oil from the middle east which is also a large portion of the oil used to produce U.S. products which results in higher prices at the pump when middle east oil is interrupted – and why is that? Its because every democrat president for the last 60 years has placed restrictions on U.S. oil companies that forced them to buy a certain amount of middle east oil which included Iranian oil because they wanted to appease Iran and when the price was factored in it offset the lower price of U.S. oil thus controlling the price at the pumps here in the U.S.
But that’s coming to an end. China is going to be getting its oil from the U.S. and is dumping Iran, Saudi Arabia is pulling out of OPEC and its collapsing, and the saudis will be bypassing the Strait of Hormuz to send its oil and allying with the U.S. to bring the worlds oil supply back up. And the restrictions on oil companies will be lifted so they are not locked into Strait of Hormuz.
Gas prices here locally is $3.23 a gallon (yesterday when I filled up), under Biden it was $4.89 a gallon to $5.37 a gallon. Its higher in some areas in the country because they screw the consumer by jacking with taxes and other factors, for example California where they jack with the taxes (tax at 71 cents-per-gallon, highest in the nation) and require a special blend (from whats in the rest of the country) to be sold. The reason for regional gas prices differences is:
Differences in state and local gas taxes
Distance from supply
Supply disruptions
Retail competition and operating costs
Environmental programs (for example, In California they require a special blend because of their ‘air pollution’ laws and special blends cost more.
“Today, Iran is in charge of the straits…”
This is false. Iran claims they are in charge of the straits. In reality the U.S. military is in charge of the straits.
“shipping is not moving”
This is false. Shipping is moving, its just not as much now.
“under Joe Biden’s administration the strait of Hormuz was open, and shipping moved without any danger or toll charges.”
disingenuous and false.
While Biden was in office he kissed Irans butt by letting them continue their nuclear program, which led to Iran being only about a few months away from being able to mount an Iranian nuclear warhead on an Iranian missile and launching by the time Trump took office for his second term. Ship were attacked by Iran during Bidens admin, for example, Iranian forces seized a container ship in April 2024, and there were many incidents involving attacks by Iran on vessels in the Strait during the Biden admin.
No one is actually paying tolls to Iran, iran says they have a toll but can’t enforce it so no one is actually paying it. No ship can go to or leave Iran, the blockaid. Shipis are starting to re-route away from Iran for oil, and getting it other places and are showing up the in Gulf or America to pick up U.S. oil.
Miner49er, you are upset that you are too stupid to realize whats really happening in the world. OK, fine, but take your mental illness BS elsewhere like to BkueSky with the rest of your mentally ill left wing buddies.
Correction for: “…Gulf or America”
Should have been …
Gulf Of America
to add to my above on the ballroom, even if the ballroom were not being built the ‘security structure’ would be and the east wing would have still been torn down to do the security structure. This ‘security structure’ has been planned for a while, even before Trump took office in his second term.
and to add, on the subject of oil above in my post….
Experts Explain Why Good News on Oil Prices Is on the Way – and UAE’s Plan Is One Big Reason.
ht* tps://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/05/15/trump-vindicated-as-experts-predict-oil-price-drop-n2202375
and…another reason oil shipping in the Strait of Hormuz has decreased is because oil shipping is using the Red Sea’s Bab-el-Mandeb Strait to move oil from the Middle East to Asia and its become their main route now.
And another reason oil shipping and other shipping in the Strait of Hormuz has decreased – its because of the blockaid where no ship can go to or exit Iran. Ya see, for many years, almost 70, up until Trump started doing something about Iran and their murderous rampage of terrorism, the majority of shipping in the Strait of Hormuz was to and from Iran. Take those out of the picture and you have decreased shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.
VICTORY: SC Gov Changes Course and Will Call a Special Session to Enact New Congressional Maps.
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Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
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🚨 JUST IN: South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster is expected to CALL A SPECIAL SESSION to DEFEAT the RINOs and redraw the 2026 Congressional map as 7R-0D, per Rep. Adam Morgan
LET’S GO!! RINO obstruction is about to be circumvented, MAGA will win 🇺🇸
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UPDATE: Special session confirmed via Politico:
South Carolina GOP Gov. Henry McMaster is expected to announce a special session on redistricting, teeing up the state legislature to pass a Republican gerrymander that would almost certainly cost Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn his seat in this year’s midterms.
Clyburn is the sole Democrat in South Carolina’s House delegation; the new map would dismantle his district, leaving the state with 7 likely red seats and no Democratic-leaning ones.
McMaster’s plan — confirmed by four people familiar with the decision, who were granted anonymity to share private details — is a reversal of his position earlier this month and follows pressure from President Donald Trump and his allies to gerrymander the state.
The looming special session comes after five Republican state senators voted with Democrats to block a measure that would have allowed them to redraw South Carolina’s districts this cycle without a call from McMaster.
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ht* tps://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2026/05/13/south-carolina-governor-might-call-a-special-sessions-after-all-n2676030
Felon does the FAFO challenge and looses: We Just Learned More About the Man Hit by a Frontier Airlines Plane, and It’s Raising Eyebrows
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Several Frontier Airlines passengers suffered minor injuries over the weekend when their plane, departing from the Denver airport, struck a person trespassing on the runway. That person was killed after being hit by the plane’s engine, which caused an explosion and fire that aborted the takeoff.
That man has now been identified, which is raising questions about whether this was a sinister act, given his extensive criminal history.
Authorities said Michael Mott, 41, was the man hit by the plane on May 9. Mott has been arrested 20 times previously, including for attempted murder. He was most recently arrested about a month before he trespassed at the Denver airport.
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Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg
NEW: The man who walked in front of a Frontier plane, which nearly ended in catastrophe for the passengers, had 20 previous arrests, including for attempted murder.
41-year-old Michael Mott’s most recent arrest was just one month before he trespassed at the airport.
In 2005, Mott was arrested for attempted murder with a gun. He later pleaded down to second-degree assault and was sentenced to just 6 years in prison.
He was also charged with felony assault using a weapon during his time in prison.
When he got out of prison, he continued to commit crimes, including felony assault on a peace officer and domestic violence, along with other crimes, according to the New York Post.
Liberalism is a plague on our country. Thanks to a ‘compassionate’ justice system, this guy almost killed everyone on board this plane.
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ht* tps://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2026/05/13/man-hit-by-frontier-plane-idd-n2676007
My church has a designated security team. Scheduled coverage for all services.
The congregation can carry, although we _request_ they talk to us first – mostly in case of an incident, so they know us and we know them. We may ask them to join the team. Background check same as any staff. We are Officers of the Land Owner.
We do a range qual at twice the frequency of local law enforcement. We also have quarterly classroom training, just so everyone knows what to do if SHTF.
Our insurance company describes our program as “exemplary”.
“Protect my lambs.” – Yeshua
How often are Islamic houses of worship attacked? How often have you seen the news media use the word “Christophobia”? How often have you seen the news media use the word “Islamophobia”? Compare and contrast.
“A mosque in Ypsilanti, Michigan, is burned to the ground. Yet another – in Tucson, Arizona – is broken into and its copies of the Quran ripped up. And just this weekend in Bloomington, Minnesota, a homemade explosive device detonated at an Islamic center around the time of morning prayers.
We mapped 63 publicly reported incidents from January to July 2017, where mosques were targets of threats, vandalism or arson. On average, that comes down to nine every month and at least two a week.“
https://www.cnn.com/2017/03/20/us/mosques-targeted-2017-trnd
Miner, you went back nine years to 2017 and that was the best CNN/CAIR could do. Let’s revisit the actual questions:
1. How often are Islamic houses of worship attacked?
In the highlighted cases: one building burned (arson investigation – 16 year old perp), one early-morning vandalism with ripped Qurans, and one pipe bomb at 5 a.m. in Bloomington with zero injuries. Oh and that bomber just happened to be tranz-identifying. (Look it up.)
These are mostly vandalism, threats, and property damage. They’re serious, but not mass shooter attacks *during services* requiring armed security. Churches get broken into and vandalized constantly too. Ask anyone who goes to church.
Armed church security exists because of actual mass shootings during worship. Not book-tearing or threat hoaxes.
2 & 3. “Christophobia” vs “Islamophobia”
Search any major outlet. “Islamophobia” appears constantly. It’s a go-to framing for any criticism or incident involving Muslims. “Christophobia” is basically nonexistent in MSM, despite documented rises in church attacks, global persecution of Christians, and anti-Christian incidents here. The disparity in language reveals the narrative priority. You posted a 9-year-old aggregation that mixes real incidents with threats/vandalism to imply equivalence to armed mass shooters. It doesn’t hold. The original questions highlighted a clear media double standard on religious violence and terminology. You ignored two of them.
Per capita, there are many more attacks on Islamic houses of worship then upon Christian churches:
“While smaller in total number compared to church attacks, studies indicate roughly 2% of violent incidents occur at mosques, which is double their statistical share of total U.S. religious institutions.“
https://www.dolanconsultinggroup.com/news/serious-violence-at-places-of-worship-in-the-u-s-looking-at-the-numbers/
Many evangelical Christians have a persecution complex, an unreasoning fear they are being targeted disproportionately.
It’s probably due to their guilt for having been responsible for so much violence and death over the centuries.
That’s to be expected from a religion thiat is built on human sacrifice and routinely practices ritual cannibalism.
“Many evangelical Christians have a persecution complex, an unreasoning fear they are being targeted disproportionately.”
stop describing your TDS in trying to lay it off on Christians with your made up BS.
With only ~3 fatal incidents over 25+ years across millions of Muslim worshippers and thousands of weekly prayer gatherings, the per-person risk at mosques is extremely low — lower than the overall U.S. homicide rate and far lower in proportional terms than for the much larger Christian population attending churches (where the overwhelming majority of incidents occur, often tied to domestic disputes, robberies, or personal conflicts rather than ideology). h*tps://www.wcvb.com/article/gun-violence-churches-america/69001647
If you want to explore religious persecution, do so on a worldwide basis and share your findings with us.
“Many evangelical Christians have a persecution complex, an unreasoning fear they are being targeted disproportionately.”
False.
Been doing research and tracking violence against Christians for a while. But basically, although Christians have been under increasing attack or threat since Biden got elected a defining point happened last year and the tempo has increased for the threats:
On the morning of August 27, 2025, a left wing trans murderer named Robert Westman (‘Robin Westman’ was his imaginary gender name) conducted a mass murder attack at the Church of the Annunciation in the Windom neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, a christian church (Catholic).
By the morning of August 29, 2025, on the left wing social media platform ‘BlueSky’ there were more than 3,000 posts celebrating the attack and saddened the death and injury count was not higher these left wing BlueSky users were expressing their desire to personally attack christian churches and slaughter more children, more than 2,000 of them were either trans or gay. In addition to this platform, numerous videos (over 1,000) appeared on TIkTok celebrating the attack and the people creating these videos were wanting more attacks on Christian churches. Almost all of the posts have since been removed out of fear the users posting could be identified or were removed because of violation of terms of service.
Since that left wing trans murderer attacked the church in Minneapolis, more than 123,000 violent threats against christian churches have been made, although not enacted, and more than 30,000 Christians, specifically because they were christian, have been individually assaulted (and some were killed) by left wing attackers.
Left wing pedophiles and trans frequently express on social media their violent sexual urges for children especially church attending christian children, TikTok removed more than 7,000 of these videos in the last three months.
There is an on-going systematic christian genocide in Congo and Nigeria being conducted by Islamic based Jihadist terrorist groups and millions face death, displacement and kidnapping from these groups.
The Biden administration systematically targeted millions of Christians, especially those of the Catholic faith, and disproportionately black Christians, by use of weaponized government, targeting churches and religious nonprofits on the basis of their beliefs through baseless secret investigations by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the FBI.
This is not “an unreasoning fear they are being targeted disproportionately”.
Christian Persecution: Massacres in Congo and Nigeria, Kidnappings in Pakistan.
ht* tps://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/05/14/christian-persecution-massacres-in-congo-and-nigeria-kidnappings-in-pakistan-n4952878
forget visiting the actual questions with Miner49r, his constant ‘goal post’ moving and not understanding what context means will keep that from happening.
Sparring with Miner has basically become a pastime. He’s the ultimate media narrative drone. Look back at the last decade of media lies. He was wrong on every single one.
“real incidents with threats/vandalism to imply equivalence to armed mass shooters“
So you don’t think arson, terroristic threats and vandalism are crimes of violence?
Fascinating position for MAGA to take considering their pearl clutching over BLM protest.
The fact is, the rate of threats/actual violence against mosques, etc. is double the rate of attacks on churches so of course there’s a higher incidence of media reporting.
Besides, Christians are filled with the power of the Holy Spirit so why are they acting like whiny little scaredy-cats?
Practice more of your ritual cannibalism and pray for strength:
“Gather ’round the table of the Lord, / Eat His body, drink His blood, / And we’ll sing a song of love, / Allelu, allelu, allelu, alleluia”
“So you don’t think arson, terroristic threats and vandalism are crimes of violence?”
The context of this article is armed security to protect against mass shooters. Churches aren’t interested in armed security to protect against after hours vandalism and book tearing.
“…so why are they acting like whiny little scaredy-cats?” What do you mean by this? Do you think it’s wrong to protect yourself and others?
“Churches aren’t interested in armed security to protect against after hours vandalism and book tearing.” Or CAIR unverified or later-disproven threats.
Miner49r doesn’t know what ‘context’ means.
Straw man arguments are his thing. Also notice the multiple attacks on Christians. Miner is a typical clueless and hate-filled Democrat.
“Search any major outlet. ‘Islamophobia’ appears constantly. It’s a go-to framing for any criticism or incident involving Muslims.”
The term ‘Islamophobia’ was invented by the Muslim Brotherhood as an ideological weapon to silence critics. While the term was first used in 1922, it only became a significant part of our vocabulary in the 1990s.
The Muslim Brotherhood publicized the term as an attempt to criminalize any criticism of their religious and political beliefs by implicitly comparing it to antisemitism. This deceptive ‘symmetry’ with antisemitism allowed them to gain moral advantages from the resulting victimhood status. Like the LGBTQ+ movement does today with their invented terms (i.e. ‘homophobe’, ‘transphobe’) to claim a ‘victim’ status.
Abdur-Rahman Muhammad, a former Islamist, was present at the meeting where Muslim Brotherhood allied members of the International Institute for Islamic Thought (IIIT) decided to ’emulate the homosexual activists who used the term ‘homophobia’ to silence critics.’ The FBI later proved the IIIT and Muslim Brotherhood are allied, the proof has appeared in FBI reports. They revealed that several of the IIIT founders and directors were Brotherhood members. But anyway, hence the term ‘Islamophobia’ was born.
Here’s more of that unfair media reporting you’re speaking of, this also must be fake news as well, right?
“3 killed, 2 suspects dead in shooting at San Diego Islamic center
Updated 9:20 pm EDT May. 18, 2026
See our live blog for continuing coverage
SAN DIEGO – At least three adults are dead following a shooting at a San Diego Islamic center, and authorities said there’s “no further threat” to the public as they investigate the incident as a hate crime.”
USA TODAY
https://apple.news/AIrvmeh1FQoyzx9xXdvI-yw
What do you mean by “unfair media reporting”? You’ve been conditioned by years of propaganda so you can read words and see something completely different. My point was the news media’s (propagandists’) use of the word “Islamophobia” out of proportion to attacks. If that isn’t propaganda, why wouldn’t they do the same for Christianity (which has more attacks)? Instead, they explain those attacks away and quickly drop the stories.
Miner, you could use logic and understand this and still not care. But you’re so far gone you don’t even understand it. That’s why the propagandists do what they do. Many people are highly susceptible to this kind of conditioning.
“My point was the news media’s (propagandists’) use of the word “Islamophobia” out of proportion to attacks“
The only evidence you offered to prove your point is your ‘feels’.
“Christianity (which has more attacks)?“
Fake news, I provided a reference above that shows there are twice as many attacks on Muslims per capita as opposed to Christians in the US.
It’s not surprising that the Abrahamic religions are violently feuding with one another, they are all death cults that originated in Abraham’s incestuous relationship with his sister and rely on human sacrifice and ritual cannibalism.
“And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.” — Genesis 20:12 (KJV)
“The only evidence you offered to prove your point is your ‘feels’.”
What are you talking about? First of all, it’s common knowledge. Secondly, I previously left a link. Replace the “*” with a “t” and go to that url. That specific url which I have already provided lists attacks on US houses of worship. Per that site (check it yourself), “The majority of the killing incidents, 97%, took place at Christian churches, reflecting the large number of Christian churches in the United States.”
You asked something like: “Christianity (which has more attacks)?” Then followed up with: “Fake news, I provided a reference above that shows there are twice as many attacks on Muslims per capita as opposed to Christians in the US.”
Reread those two lines a few times until you see the mistake. Have you found it yet?
You pivoted straight from raw numbers (where Christians face the overwhelming majority of incidents, as expected given their numbers) to per capita rates for Muslims. That’s a classic moving of the goalposts. I wasn’t even trying to play the “oppression Olympics” with you. That’s how you immediately took it. Then you disparaged Christianity multiple times while defending Muslims, all while claiming to “hate all religion equally.” Plus, previous death rates (not threats or vandalism) were even lower per capita. Maybe (unsure) they aren’t now after you add in the three from yesterday, but the total numbers stand which isn’t even the point. The point was media bias and propaganda.
You can easily look up word frequency in media archives (Google Trends, news databases, etc.). “Islamophobia” gets used orders of magnitude more often than “Christophobia” or “Christianphobia.” The disparity tells you which concerns get amplified and which get minimized.
This isn’t about “feels.” It’s about observable patterns in incidents and coverage. Data from sources like the Family Research Council tracks hundreds of hostility incidents against churches in recent years (vandalism, arson, etc.).
Multiple studies confirm the bulk of house of worship violence hits Christian sites because that’s the vast majority of them, about 94-97% in many datasets.
You seem to have a difficult time with reading comprehension on this. It’s because you’ve been conditioned to react a particular way to certain stimuli. Years of selective propaganda will do that. Have you listened to Yuri Bezmenov’s (Soviet defector) presentation on demoralization? If not, you should check it out. He described how ideological subversion works over decades: education, media, and culture erode the ability to process basic facts. A demoralized person is shown evidence and still can’t assess it properly because the framework is already installed. That’s the tragedy he pointed out.
Awaiting moderation.