Some conservative Christians believe that major persecution of
churches in North American is imminent, and may already have started. Many Christian leaders
say that they have
already detected ominous signs of a serious increase in religious hate crime --
the assassination of Christians across the U.S., presumably by non-Christians bent on exterminating
Christianity. They feel that conservative Christians in particular are being
directly targeted.
This
essay examines recent murders that have occurred in or in front of churches.
School incidents which might have involved religious hatred are also studied.
We have concluded that:
Many, perhaps most, murders in churches and schools are of Christians
from conservative Protestantism.