Editing Christophobia

[[File:Christophobia.jpg|thumb|304px]]{{Quote|It was the nineteenth year of Diocletian's reign and the month Dystrus, called March by the Romans, and the festival of the Saviour's Passion was approaching, when an imperial decree was published everywhere, ordering the churches to be razed to the ground and the Scriptures destroyed by fire, and giving notice that those in places of honour would lose their places, and domestic staff, if they continued to profess Christianity, would be deprived of their liberty. Such was the first edict against us. Soon afterwards other decrees arrived in rapid succession, ordering that the presidents of the churches in every place should all be first committed to prison and then coerced by every possible means into offering sacrifice.|The Christian historian Eusebius on [[Diocletian]]'s purge of Christians.}}
The '''persecution of Christians''' can be historically traced from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_the_1st_century first century] of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_era Christian era] to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_the_21st_century present day]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Christianity Early Christians] were persecuted for their fait at the hands of both the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Christians_by_the_Jews Jews] from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split_of_early_Christianity_and_Judaism whose religion Christianity arose] and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Christians_in_the_Roman_Empire Romans] who controlled many of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_centers_of_Christianity lands across which early Christianity was spread]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_the_4th_century Early in the fourth century], a form of the religion was legalized by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edict_of_Milan Edict of Milan], and it eventually became the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_church_of_the_Roman_Empire State church of the Roman Empire].

Christian missionaries as well as converts to Christianity have been the target of persecution ever since the emergence of Christianity, sometimes to the point of being martyred for their faith.

The schisms of the Middle Ages and especially the Protestant Reformation, sometimes provoked severe conflicts between Christian denominations to the point of persecuting each other.

In the 20th century, Christians were persecuted by various governments including the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam Islamic] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire Ottoman Empire] in the form of the [[Armenian Genocide]], the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyrian_Genocide Assyrian Genocide] and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Genocide Greek Genocide], as well as by atheistic states such as the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union Soviet Union], Communist Albania and North Korea.

==Known Anti-Christians==
===Communists===
#[[Vladimir Lenin]]
#[[Joseph Stalin]]
#[[Mao Zedong]]
#[[Pol Pot]]
#[[Kim Il-sung]]
#[[Kim Jong-il]]
#[[Kim Jong-un]]
#[[Fidel Castro]]
#[[Che Guevara]]
#[[Leon Trotsky]]
#[[League of Militant Atheists]]
#[[Khmer Rouge]]
#[[Jim Jones]]
#[[Enver Hoxha]]
#[[Communist Party of China]]
#[[Josip Broz Tito]]
#[[Hồ Chí Minh]]
#[[Xi Jinping]]
#[[Workers' Party of Korea]]
#[[Antifa]]
#[[Nikita Khrushchev]]
#[[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]]
#[[Socialist Unity Party of Germany]]
#[[Mengistu Haile Mariam]]
#[[Derg]]
#[[Communist Party of Czechoslovakia]]
#[[Nicolae Ceaușescu]]
#[[Communist Party of Vietnam]]
#[[Polish United Workers' Party]]
#[[Communist Party of Cuba]]
#[[Władysław Gomułka]]
#[[Sandinista National Liberation Front]]
#[[Communist Party of Romania]]

===Atheists===
#[[Craig Stephen Hicks]]
#[[Devin Patrick Kelley]]
#[[Pekka-Eric Auvinen]]
#[[Christopher Harper-Mercer]]
#[[Matthew Murray]]
#[[Eric Harris]]
#[[Dylan Klebold]]
#[[Connor Betts]]

===Islamists===
#[[Osama Bin Laden]]
#[[Ayman al-Zawahiri]]
#[[Anwar al-Awlaki]]
#[[Anjem Choudary]]
#[[Abu Bakr al-Baghadi]]
#[[Abdolmalek Rigi]]
#[[Al-Qaeda]]
#[[Al-Shabaab]]
#[[The Islamic State]]
#[[Boko Haram]]
#[[Abu Sayyaf]]
#[[Maute group]]
#[[Maute group|Moro Islamic Liberation Front]]
#[[National Thowheeth Jama'ath]]
#[[House of Saud]]
#[[Ruhollah Khomeini]]
#[[Ali Khamenei]]
#[[Omar Mateen]]
#[[Guilherme Taucci Monteiro]]
#[[Luiz Henrique de Castro]]
#[[Muammar Gaddafi]]
#[[Hamas]]
#[[Bashar al-Assad]]
#[[Hezbollah]]
#[[Nation of Islam]]
#[[Muslim Brotherhood]]
#[[Recep Tayyip Erdoğan]]
#[[Omar al-Bashir]]
#[[Idi Amin Dada]]

===Other===
#Some [[Alt-Right]] Groups
#[[Adam Lanza]]
#[[Larry Gene Ashbrook]]
#[[Creativity (religion)|Creativity]]
#[[Atomwaffen Division]]
#[[Dogolachan]]
#[[Benito Mussolini]]
#[[Young Turks]]
#[[Aleksandr Dugin]]
#[[Adolf Hitler]]
#[[Nazi Party]]
#[[Supreme Council of Government]]
#[[Jewish Defense League]]
#[[Varg Vikernes]]
#[[Order of Nine Angles]]
#[[National Fascist Party]]
#[[Meir Kahane]]
#[[Arauco-Malleco Coordinator]]
#[[Lee Kuan Yew]]
#[[Alexander Lukashenko]]
#[[Ukrainian Insurgent Army]]

==See also:==
* [[Islamophobia]]
* [[Anti-Semitism|Antisemitism]]
* [[Militant Atheism]]

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