This data has readily been out for a while but no one in the corporate media seems to want to talk about it. 

(Study: Christians Most Persecuted Religious Group In the World, Near "Genocide" Levels)

While it's true that there are members of the faith who resemble pearl-clutching Karens who are holier than everyone and use God as a cudgel to beat everyone over the head to display and enforce their sense of morality like modern-day Pharisees, most Christians are just normal, good-natured people with a moral boundary that causes them to steer clear of, and not take part in, various worldly lifestyles and vices. 

That seems to fly for the far stricter and punishing Muslim faith, but apparently, that's not allowed for Christians. 

My personal belief is that the reason many parts of our society hate Christians is because it's easy to do so. Christians aren't the violent type. We've been taught to shrug off a lot of the insults and injuries that come at us and "turn the other cheek." To be fair, we adhere to a brand of pacifism...but don't misunderstand what kind of pacifist a Christian is. 

A pacifist, at least in the case of a Christian, is a person who chooses not to do violence when violence could be considered warranted. The operative word here is "chooses," because Christians are capable of great and terrible violence and exhibit this when the need arises for it. Christian pacifism has a line. 

The same people who kneel before the altar on Sunday morning are the same people who load their rifles and practice on the range on Sunday afternoon. You'll find many Christians among those who put on uniforms and a badge strap a gun to their hip and spend the day enforcing the law. When many a soldier is deployed to bring the terrors of the Earth to their country's enemies, they're not asking Zeus for guidance, safety, and a steady aim. 

At some point, the radical left mistook the Christian community's penchant for non-violence and pacifism as a weakness. Their brainwashed-driven hatred of Christians sent them to Christian establishments with the idea that they would enact some sort of revenge with ease on soft targets. 

As Streiff reported on Monday, a transgender shooter showed up at Joel Osteen's church in an attempt to murder Christians but was stopped after wounding a 57-year-old man. But they were prepared. Other Christian communities weren't. Most famously, the shooting of a school in Nashville took the lives of six people, three of whom were children. (Since the publishing of this article, authorities have cleared the confusion about the gender identity of the shooter, noting that while she used male aliases, she has never considered herself "transgender." Regardless, the point of the article still stands.)

Yes, these Christians were caught off guard. They were caught off guard because many didn't think our enemies would be stupid enough to murder our children. Many didn't think that the media would try to excuse it afterward. Many thought we lived in a world where some boundaries still existed, but it's pretty clear that that time has passed. 

With every attempt at a Christian life, the bear awakens, and soon it's going to get up and it will be terrifying to behold when it rises up and bares its teeth. 

Am I saying that Christians are going to go on an LGBT murdering spree? No. That's not our way. "Vengeance is mine," sayeth the Lord. But it does mean that Christians will be far more prepared in the future, and when trouble arises, you can bet that the person holding the gun that defends the people will be a God-fearing individual. 

That "turn the other cheek" message in Matthew was not Jesus saying that Christians should allow their family, friends, and community to be murdered by bad people. 

People are going to die, and it won't be Christians with the higher casualty rate.

The brutal truth is that if the LGBT community was right and Christians were the mass-murdering, LGBT genocide-loving people they claimed, then there would be no LGBT community. The practice would be wiped out globally in a month at most. The Western world would never celebrate another "Pride Month," and corporations wouldn't ever change their social media profile pictures to rainbow-colored versions. Anyone who was gay would never indicate they were and would live their life quietly, not loudly and proudly. The corporate media and Hollywood would be destroyed, gay clubs would be shuttered, and school libraries would be purged of anything that remotely discusses homosexuality. Porn sites would immediately be deleted from the internet in their entirety. 

But none of that is happening. Why? Because Christians aren't the dictatorial theological terrorists the left says they are. For the most part, Christians live their lives and leave others alone, being in the world but not of it, and let everyone else use the free will that God gave us to live their lives how they see fit. We preach to those who need to hear it and try to show people the way, but leading a horse to water doesn't make it take a drink. Embracing Christ is up to the individual. 

My advice to the greater society? Stop trying to paint Christians as the bad guys, because we're clearly not. That legitimately belongs to the radical left, and if you want to stop transgender people from dying (another greatly exaggerated claim by the media), then it would be best to stop making it seem like radical violence is a solid option for the mentally ill, because Christians aren't the soft targets you think we are.