Dr. Tom Williams

We will not give you a place at this table.

We will do everything we can to thwart your rise here because we don't trust you, because we disqualify you because of that faith, because of that deeply held belief, because of that devotion that you feel.

You're not able to be unbiased.

You're going to be

problematic in your rulings because of that faith that you possess.

So we see how history really does repeat itself.

It is those Christians who are willing to live by their faith and take it seriously enough, they are the ones who are going to suffer for it.

And if you're willing to accommodate, if you're willing to say, hey, whatever,

We can't stop progress.

If this is the way society is going, let's just all get on board.

Let's get on the bus and they'll let us keep our rosaries.

Those are the ones who are going to do just fine.

The drivers of Christian persecution are intensifying.

And the traditional and historic bastions against Christian persecution, those that uphold religious liberty, those that defend and protect Christians, are weakening.

And these two things going hand in hand set up a situation where things cannot but get worse.

And there's a problem which, you know, I hope this book will address this problem, will alleviate in some way this problem, the widespread ignorance as to the magnitude of the problem.

People do not realize how many Christians are actively persecuted around the world and how this persecution, which is very bloody in many places, is becoming more

bloody right before our eyes,

even in the post-Christian West, even where persecution used to mean for a Westerner, a little ostracization, a little bit of ridicule in the academy, a little bit of, oh, isn't that sweet, that devout kind of benighted figure.

And now it's something that becomes more and more hostile, more and more aggressive.