Those if the Abrahamic Faiths were most often ostracized because they would not tolerate other faiths and viewed them as wicked and in need of destruction. This is what has happen recently with the Georgia Guide Stones.
Yeah, saw some lovely Roman and Greek classical statues in a museum once. They had been crudely vandalized in the Middle Ages by having big crosses carved into them. Imagine being so insecure in one's faith one feels the need to vandalize your ancestors' art.
It has been precisely that kind of behavior that has been the main cause of why Christians were "persecuted".