Posted on 07/23/2004 8:29:49 PM PDT by JerseyHighlander
LOL! Yeah, but, I mean other than that it's very broad minded and tolerant.
And in the churches, groups are studying the latest pop-church bestseller, the Purpose-Driven Profit or whatever the latest one is, and leaving Bibles largely untouched.
Well stated. It cannot compete on the level playing field of the marketplace of ideas. For liberals, politics is their religion.
Who'da thunk it 20 years ago...the government of Slovakia protesting religious persecution by the government of Sweden?
Coming to a town near you thanks to hate crime legislation. Chilling thought, isn't it?
But then Christians know they will be tortured, jailed, beheaded and killed for the faith in the end times.
In the meantime, we sit idly by while our politicians pass the very laws that will hang us. Vote them out of office.
"[Canada is doing this too.
We are surrounded...]"
Too late to circle the wagons,
The activist judges among us , who legislate from the bench, will bring these things to pass in the USA
The US military is sworn to protect and defend the constitution, I think the Marines should go string up the Supreme court BEFORE it's too late !
We've heard that before. We're getting tired of saving you from fascist tyrants.
We're busy fighting the socialist liberal crap that you exported to our country.
It's getting old with you Euroweenies.
Now it's jail, next it's gas. Then we have to save your a$$.
Nonsense. We simply have more targets now.
Saddle up. Lock & load.
This is a preview of coming attractions. It's coming to a Church near you, soon.
We'll have this problem right here, and probably very soon. For years they've been jailing priests and ministers for protesting at abortion clinics. Christianity is under full assault, from without and within.
" a left wing liberal ideology was trying to introduce tyranny
The Judeo-Christian communities in Europe better wake up, as well as here in the US. This is a scary glimpse into the future unless we stop the Tyranny of the Minority. Every Christian and Jewish person should see this article.
Exactly.
"Take heed to yourselves; if your brother sins, rebuke him----" (Luke 17:3)
Calling all fence sitters...time is coming where the sides will be obvious and decisions will have to be made. God is already sounding the call....Are you for me or against me. Separation of sheep and goats. Seems we are losing our safe grey areas of complacancy. I don't think I have ever seen such a polarization, and so evenly split. But bottom line.... God says he has a remnant...which is merely a piece of the whole. We are going to be out numbered and we will have to make our stand. We don't lose, keep the faith, stay strong and get as close to Him as you can, its the ONLY safe place to be.
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil," said Edmund Burke, "is that good men do nothing."
IF: A minor opposition politician makes a stump speech in Sweden, calling the current political oligarchy a corrupt, heathen, anti-moral and fascist regime worthy of open contempt and derision, scathing critique and formal protest. Will the politicians declare themselves a offended class/group of society, such as minorities or Jews, and declare the minor opposition politician a bigot worthy of a jail sentence for hate speech? On the slippery slope, it's not even a babystep away, and it's inevitably going to occur in one of the "liberal" Western countries in the EU, and set precedence over the entire EU.
IF: A Christian group made similar complaints against an Imam, would there be any action? Dhimmitude for the population, built up many times similarly during Muhammed's and original Caliphs' treaties with city-states on their borders. The Imam's followers will be above reproach as they acquire power and influence through any means necessary, until such time as open rebellion by the remaining few, or an outside force returns sovereignty to the native Swedes.
I don't consider myself religious, this news disgusts my very core beliefs, and scares me thoroughly. My Slovak side of the family escaped persecution in Slovakia, came to America and returned to fight and die in Eurpe during WWII. The tyranny of economic and religious persecution and fascist governments has returned, more powerful and guile than before.
I don't believe the EU, with a start date of the Euro currency circulation, will survive any longer than the 3rd Reich reign. The decline and fall has already started, the aftermath will leave the continent devastated once again.
What Judeo-Christian community? There are only isolated pockets of such people left in Europe. What passes for "Christianity" in most of the nations of the EU is a bloodless, state-supported church whose doctrine is nothing less than complete apostasy. All they do is to sponsor hordes of phony "refugees" - often members of the "religion of peace" - to colonize the country and spread their evil. Compassionate "conservatism" at its finest.
The most foolish and idiotic thing that the former Soviet bloc nations like Slovakia and Poland could ever have done was to hand over their newly attained sovereignty to an unaccountable cabal of leftist Eurocrats in Brussels. Hate speech laws like the one used to imprison Pastor Green are part of the EU's proposed constitution. It's so bad that they're attempting to force a monastery on Mt. Athos (which has been there a 1000 years and never allowed women on the site), to admit women visitors because some Dutch lesbians were unhappy. Here's what's even better: No matter what is said or how much killing is openly advocated in sermons delivered in Mosques, the leftists in charge of enforcing such speech codes will only go after Christian churches who don't kowtow to PC doctrines. The Muslims are part of the "oppressed other", you see. They are exempt from the PC codes in the same way that Farrakhan & Co. are exempt from the charge of racism irrespective of their genocidal rantings.
Oh, and BTW, that is the ultimate goal here in the USA as well. Don't be fooled by these leftists for a second - no matter how "reasonable" they sound.
Does that mean that Jacques Chirac has to be imprisoned (due to the fact that he offends me) or does he get off because he's a government official?
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