Posted on 04/19/2004 4:36:17 PM PDT by Destro
Sadly, I admit I didn't know what was going on at the time, I do now of course, and am sickened. We were clearly on the wrong side, and this makes me wonder even more about Clinton's lack of reaction to Islamic terrorists who attacked us during his reign.
Yes, he and Hillary are anti Christian, that was made clear many times in this country, yet as stated in this article, too many Christians vote for the party of their pocketbook, ignoring such things as mentioned here, and the party of abortion, homosexuals, etc.
I think I am depressed now! But this article is just great, and very much needed.
One element missing was the definition of a Christian.
You moved right into an alignment of Orthodox Christians with 'being' a Christian and, quite frankly ... I didn't see the connect.
What is Orthodox?
What is (a) Christian.
What's the difference (if any)?
Correct. The news media managed to pretty well swamp this issue for nearly all Americans. I was stunned when I met a Serbian friend of a friend, and heard a very different story from everything I'd heard in the press. I really didn't know what to think.
We need more education....
I see now that you were not the author.
I apologize for that.
The questions remain.
"Over 300,000 Orthodox clerics were murdered by the Bolsheviks, and those who today recall these statistics and martyrs are largely restricted to White Russian circles of aging émigrés. The National Council of Churches, which bleeds so ostentatiously for the “liberation forces” and terrorists of Africa and Central America, have yet to organize even a memorial service for their coreligionists in the “Worker’s Paradise.” Religious scholars have not, so far as I know, devoted much effort to acquainting congregations and church hierarchies with the specifics of Communist and Socialist antireligious activities. From Under the Rubble, which updates the situation, is not now extolled from pulpits, so far as I know, nor is it included among stacks of worthy reading for mainstream congregations in the West. Yet From Under the Rubble warns, it points out, it compares, it points a finger toward the path upon which we are unwittingly embarked — and it makes its case by calling attention to not only Landmarks, but to what has happened since, which proves — beyond question — the arguments made by Landmarks."
"What is not so expected is that so many western Christians, Americans in particular, are willing to believe the worst about their eastern Christian cousins, who, only lately freed from Islamic (and later, in most cases, communist) servitude, are desperately attempting to avoid a repeat of the experience. Today, when all of the Russian North Caucasus is subject to plunder and hostage-taking razzias staged from Shari'a-ruled Chechnya, when not just Nagorno-Karabakh but Armenia proper is in danger of a repeat of 1915, when Cyprus and Greece receive unvarnished threats to their territorial integrity on a weekly basis for the offense of purchasing defensive weapons, and when the borders of Serbia are rapidly approaching those of the pashaluk of Belgrade to suit America's new-found friends in Bosnia and Kosovo, organized Roman Catholic and Protestant sentiment in America overwhelmingly sides with non- and anti-Christian elite opinion in its pro-Muslim, anti-Orthodox tendency."
"For example, in 1993 statements were issued by a number of Roman Catholic, Protestant, and Anglican spokesmen in the United States urging military intervention on behalf of the Islamic regime in Sarajevo. "We are convinced that there is just cause to use force to defend largely helpless people in Bosnia against aggression and barbarism that are destroying the very foundations of society and threaten large numbers of people," wrote the chairman of the U.S. Catholic Conference, at a time when the Muslim beneficiaries of the called-for intervention were not only roasting alive Serb POWs impaled on spits but were slaughtering Roman Catholic Croats by the hundreds in an offensive in central Bosnia. "What is going on in Bosnia is genocide by any other name," observed a prominent Baptist spokesman: "The ghosts of Auschwitz and Dachau have come back to haunt us. If we do nothing we are morally culpable." "Those of us who opposed the Gulf War believed that war was not the answer," opined the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, "but today we find ourselves confronted with an evil war, the sure elimination of which may be possible only by means of armed intervention." Thus did high-minded guardians of the West's Christian integrity give their blessing for NATO to assist the resumption of jihad in Europe. Granted, they were themselves to some extent victims of the melodramatic media coverage that has characterized the Balkan war, but that's not much of an excuse. Who told them to believe everything dished up by CNN?"
It is always good to endear your audience.
LOL!!!
OK. Then piss on T.V. Weber's minority whining. He should have stuck to reporting on UFOs.
It is always good to endear your audience.
I was thinking the same thing. He alienated his target audience. In the second paragraph no less. Not too smooth. Fat lot of good it does to make a point if nobody sticks around to hear it.
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