“(hatred of the good for being good).”
This is very short video shows this well,
https://youtu.be/7M1-NVjVfFw

We are currently observing what Ayn Rand called:
THE AGE OF ENVY (hatred of the good for being good).

Look at the seven virtues that Ayn described and think about how few are being encouraged in society and politics today.

It's not "Christianity" per-se ... it's those who abhor deception and crave truth.

mminnick says: .. not "pushing Christianity. I am pushing religious freedom for all individuals." Complete agreement.

The only thing I would add to 'religious freedom' is freedom not to have a religion.

Someone says "they have been asking for it". An Objectivist has to question the way the word 'they' is used here. It should just mean 'they' who did bad stuff in the past rather than those who use the same label today.

From my position of no religion this persecution gives me no comfort. Being wrong in belief and philosophy has to be a fundamental right. Those who practice violence, they may call it retribution, can and do inflict horror in any direction.
Leaders of the big Christian groups are being deliberately quiet about persecution in Africa and the Middle East. They will not even defend rights of Christians in the West to choose a lifestyle. This cowardice is bad and deserves condemnation but violence must be resisted, by violence if necessary.

They sure aren't persecuting the ones with the guns.

This is not a real problem. It is a pendulum swing, and the Christians have themselves to blame for how high the weight was lifted.
Christians have no position. Twelve minutes ago they were arguing with the democrats for segregation, and six minutes ago they were arguing against gay relationships. Two days ago they were driving spikes through Bruno's palate to silence his words offending god regarding heliocentricism.

No one else lifted the pendulum. Christians have been asking for it. We have real problems with freedom. Taking the high road for freedom, should be enough.

The false history the leftest believe causes them to assume that Christians deserve this treatment because someone in their past made them the object of a pointed finger because they could not control the perversions of their own brain.
Not to mention that Christians as a whole are better people than the barbarians and the parasitical humanoids that attempt to rule them and us.

Yes, because one of the major persecutors (Russia) survived. It was even worse following the Communist takeover in China.

Also, just before World War II ended it went into high gear.

Political correctness is in the OP. Anti-Christian hostility???? What a politically correct euphemism for murder and extermination almost to the level of genocide by MUSLIM TERRORISTS..
It is not Communists who are burning and raping and blowing up Christians. It is ISLAMIC JIHAD!!!!
All of you are programmed and propagandized into the same Political correctness and don't even know it.

I'm looking back in history a little and seeing something very similar just before WW II...

It's almost like jealousy because you can do all those things and they can't, They have no control, intelligence, skills, conscience nor a wish to be moral and they feel that they have been upstaged.

Loths, despises, finds mentally unstable etc., etc., etc. Almost any negative derisive term would fit the feelings of the left against the people you describe.

They want NO rules for themselves and those they have created in their own perverted image but they will have a crap load of rules for everyone else to follow or die.

The naughty left HATES anything that encourages people to be good, honest, loyal to their spouse (of the opposite sex), diligent, prosperous and above all moral.
It's not Just Christianity, it's objectivism, or anything that allows mankind to make the world a better place.

Well look right here in Washington, D.C. Are these Christian antics going on? The ant-religious factor is loose and thriving!

Communists consider all religions to be "opium for the people." Me dino has received mail asking for donations to help out with Bible smuggling for Christians persecuted in what used to be called Red China.
There is only one religion me dino knows that persecutes all other religions and that would be King Barry Hussein's "religion of peace."

The persecution is the final step/result of applying Alinsky's process to a group of people. By the time those principles have "Worked their Magic" The majority or at least a significant minority are ready to do whatever it takes to rid society of the "Evil" people.

Marxism is all about inciting hate then assisting the mobs as capitalism and other of their undesirables are wiped out from the face of the earth and from history.
Political Correctness is just one of their tools to accelerate the process.