Is anyone else getting the feeling

[NessaWyvern]

I don't think they mean globally. I may be wrong, but I think they're talking about uses of the term similar to the annual Fox News report about the war on Christmas.

The thing is, this is a global forum, and if you do not specify the area that is being referred to, then it should be considered globally.
Someone from the countries where Christians are very much being persecuted probably wouldn't like reading about it being "amusing" to a person, when that person did not say specifically which Christians they were referring to. All they said at the time were something along the lines of Christians in relation to the last 2000 years of history. Christians have been persecuted a lot globally in the last 2000 years.