Nov 16, 2012

Five stages of persecution (of any group)

The five stages leading to persecution(of any group)

1. Stigmatize the chosen group(any group) to make it feel unworthy and an imposition on the society.
2.Marginalize the group from the main stream society so people don't interact with them and easy believe lies about the group.
3.Vilify the group.Make it the enemy of progress and name it as is the cause of all of the society's problems.
4.Criminalize the group. Place legal restrictions on its activities and its existence



5. Outright persecution.

Many experts and scholars believe that the Catholic Church in the US is at the end of stage 3 and entering stage 4 of the persecution.


The question I have is this:


Shall we(especially we who went through a lot back in Albania) let the process happen and this part of mystical body of Christ here in the USA end up like that in Communist Albania?! 


What do you all think?