USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Religious persecution is the systematic mistreatment of an individual or a group of individuals as a response to their religious beliefs or affiliations or their lack thereof. The tendency of societies or groups within societies to alienate or repress different subcultures is a recurrent theme in human history.

Detailed explanation-2: -Three alternative responses to persecution or the threat of persecution can be discerned in Scripture: Avoiding, resisting, and enduring for those affected, and mandatory solidarity for the rest of the body of Christ.

Detailed explanation-3: -Religious discrimination is treating individuals differently because of their religious beliefs and practices, and/or their request for accommodations of their religious beliefs and practices. It also includes treating individuals differently because of their lack of religious beliefs or practices.

Detailed explanation-4: -Roman Empire expressed in wars, riots, and persecutions, such as the Jewish–pagan riots in Alexandria in ad 38 and 115–116, the Jewish–Roman wars of ad 66–70 and 132–135, and the beginning of the persecution of Christians under the Roman emperor Nero in ad 64.