Is Christianity Playing Away? — Feel free to wear your Sikh bangles or Muslim turbans, but perish the thought of wearing a minuscule Christian cross. Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you (Jesus, Matthew 5:11,12).