376:. The issues are best explained in their main article; not in an article about Christianity. Regarding this article, it assumes a modern definition of "persecution"(measured using the modern ideas of human rights etc etc) and applies it to the time where common understanding on the issue were different. This does not mean that those who were "persecuted" didn't feel any pain. In order to explain my point better, I'll give an example. We kill animals today, don't we? Let's assume that the science progresses and we can make artificial meat. After awhile people will become more sensitive with respect to animal rights and may look back at us and call us all "persecutors". Is that fair? No. Do animals suffer now by us? Yes... Today, Governments draw strict boundaries separating their countries from their neighbors. They discriminate between people living inside the border and those living outside but very close to the border in the sense of providing welfare and granting certain rights to their own citizens. But all these borders are artificial. Is this really "discrimination"? At least not today but later generation might add that to the wikipedia...I am not saying that such an article can not exist. Persecution has always been a reality and it has been naturally practiced at times by those who were in power. If Christians happened to be in the charge of an empire, wouldn't we expect persecutions? Of course we do. This should be addressed but should be addressed carefully. So, all in all I agree with The Behnam's comment above.--
621:. Acknowledging that acts of violence have been committed in the name of almost every religion is not inherently POV, it's the plain truth as verified by hundreds of reliable, published sources. No doubt all articles of this nature need to be closely watched to prevent POV and OR, but an article on the self-declared persecution for religious reasons by Christians throughout history is not OR in itself. Once again, an article that direly needs cleanup is not the same as a being unencyclopedic.
664:- Articles that allege horrific things about a race or religious people are not encyclopaedic, and they all should be deleted. This one is no more worthy of deletion than any others alleging racial or religious bias. They all should be deleted. If the others remain, then this one should be kept too. Otherwise its demonstrating an unreasonable bias. - PS this one wasn't linked from the other 2 so I think some people missed it.
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nature of the article, much of the persecution was done by people who were nominally
Christian for reasons unrelated, or largely unrelated, to their religion. The article creates the sometimes false impression that the persecution was done because they were Christian. Historical Persecution by Muslims and Historical Persecution by Jews should likewise be deleted for the same reasons.
730:- The article might have some hope of making a good historical article if all the pov is cleaned since Christians as well as the mayority of religions have indeed been known to practice discrimination aganist members of other religions, or did everybody forgot about the crusades and the genocide by Christian Spaniards while invading (mostly Latin) America? -
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Moslems didn't persecute people, just Christians, huh? Well... that's different, then. Generally, I don't like group nominations, although in this case, it probably would have been better if we had had a "persecution package". I don't blame the nominator at all, since so many of us
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Of course it uses a modern definition of persecution. Because that's what a modern reader will understand by the word. The point is, though, that this word is used by the relevant historical textbooks, etc., so why should the fact that these acts may not have been considered persecution at the time
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I don't see how this amounts to a "novel narrative". Sure, it combines information from several sources, but it doesn't make any implications that aren't present in any of them. The basic facts are verifiable, and the article as a whole presents no thesis that isn't presented in at least one of its
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All of it is unsourced save the subsection "Massacres of
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Look at the footnotes on this article. It is sourced very largely with primary sources. The section on the United States is almost entirely OR. Its all citations to the Texas
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Catholics persucted early Protestants, and that Christian colonials persecuted non-Christian natives are both well established theories well discussed in relevant literature. Certainly, a google book search finds large numbers of books that could be
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This article is a very notable and encyclopedic topic. Seems odd to me that the nominator gives no reason why this should be deleted and simply listed it. Saying religious persecution is an original research topic that cannot be treated with any neutrality may be the most asinine idea I've ever
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489:(myself included) grouse about mass nominations being unfair. Maybe the delete on all three of these should be revisited, since they're debated on different days.
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