I should preface this by saying that I myself am a Baptist and I have been for the majority of my life. I used to be more conservative politically, but in recent years I've realized that many aspects of modern American conservatism are incompatible with my faith. Though I'm quite active on the internet, most of my time is spent on places like Reddit which have a more Leftist focus and a large atheist demographic, so it's entirely possible that I'm connecting dots where there are none and thinking my own little bubble represents the world as a whole.

I've recently noticed that a particular portion of the internet seems to be biased against Christianity. Now, don't get me wrong, I don't want to come off as having a persecution complex - Christianity in the largest religion in the world and a large number of elected officials are Christian - but it seems to me that criticism of Christianity is more widely accepted online compared to criticism of other religions. If you criticize or show disagreement with other religions such as Islam or Judaism, chances are you'll be labeled Islamophobic or antisemitic. In other words, it seems that it's okay to criticize religion as long as Christianity is the religion in question.

Of course, I can kind of understand. Sadly, Christians have caused a lot of suffering in the world; the crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, the Salem Witch Trials, discrimination against LGBT people, etc; there are even some sects of the KKK that claim to be Christian. But all the other religions out there aren't innocent either. With Islam you have the Taliban, child marriage, extreme infringement of women's rights and persecution of LGBT people. With Judaism you have the current genocide against the Palestinians -- and I want to clarifiy: I don't support neither Hamas nor the Israeli government. Both of them have done terrible things and need to be punished accordingly. A nation's people is separate from it's government.

The point I'm trying to make is that everyone has skeletons in their closet. Surely, most major religions all have blood on their hands. We should criticize everyone equally. If we mock one group, we may as well mock them all. Why single specifically Christians out?

I'm not here to cause an argument, just thoughtful discussion.