Ask them how Jesus and the Apostles get around between the various cities. (they walk) What's the climate? (warm to hot in the day, cold at night -- middle east was scrub land almost a desert back then) No hotels along the way. So how did they sleep -- cuddled up to each other. And there was no funny business between them? You can see the wheels turning... It can be fun.

Seems like god has always been way too inquisitive about bedrooms and what two consenting adults do there.

Persecution is the Catch Cry of most religions, Christianity in particular.
Without their totally imaginary persecutions they 'd be bereft of anything to support their endless pushes for Religious Freedoms, those same freedoms that they have enjoyed and reveled in for the past 1,600+ years.

If they ever get the power they will put an apple in your mouth, a stake up your rectum, and roast you on a spit.

It is really just whimpering about his loss of status and power and that some of that has shifted to groups he used to be able to persecute with impunity.