text: There are degrees in everything and you know it.  Was everything you described worse than what is happening in America today and equaled by what is happening in the Middle East today.  Absolutely.  I never inferred that the war on Christianity in our country was as bad as what is happening in the Middle East.  I will speak up about the war on Christianity as long as First Amendment rights are being infringed upon.  BYW, you might look up the definition of false witness.