Posted on 01/17/2012 8:39:35 AM PST by marshmallow
After the sweeping political victories Islamists made in the early round of elections in Egypt, the Deputy Patriarch of the Coptic Catholic Church Yohanna Qulta was interviewed on Arab television concerning the looming threat that Egypt's Christian communities will face in an Islamist society. The interview gives us unusual insight into the mind and heart of our Coptic brothers and sisters.
KNOXVILLE, TN (Catholic Online) - After the sweeping political victories Islamists made in the early round of elections in Egypt, the Deputy Patriarch of the Coptic Catholic Church Yohanna Qulta was interviewed on Arab television concerning the looming threat that Egypt's Christian communities will face in an Islamist society. The interview gives us unusual insight into the mind and heart of our Coptic brothers and sisters.
Although the interview is only a few minutes long, the Deputy Patriarch's comments are wide-ranging and pack a powerful punch. They cannot be ignored. Therefore, I have included the interview in the attached video at the top of this page if you want to watch it. I also recap and discuss three points gleaned from the interview.
The three points are as follows: First, the West's failure to assist persecuted Christians in the Middle East and around the world. Second, Yohanna Qulta's excellent insight into the reason for the separation of church and state. Third, his willingness to sacrifice himself to the point of martyrdom gives us an example of courage and how we are to live.
The West's failure to assist persecuted Christians
What Yohanna Qulta said about America was painful to listen to. He said, "What did America - with 150,000 soldiers armed to the teeth - do for the Christians of Iraq? Churches were [burned] down, Christians were martyred, and America did nothing. What did America do for the Christians of Lebanon?
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“What Yohanna Qulta said about America was painful to listen to. He said, “What did America - with 150,000 soldiers armed to the teeth - do for the Christians of Iraq? Churches were [burned] down, Christians were martyred, and America did nothing. What did America do for the Christians of Lebanon?”
The government is bent on destroying Christians on the home front as well.
Big difference here, Ameicans can do what is called “lock and load”.
Translation: use their Amendment #2 rights.
Wha the Egyptian Christians do not realize, is that the American political, academia, and media elites, are trying to get rid of Christianity in America itself. Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, universities that started as seminaries to train Christian ministers, have become hotbeads of anti-Christian activity.
Christianity is dying in Europe, and the same Muslim militants who are threatening the lives of Egyptian Christians, have been given special rights in European countries. Western European legal systems are now enforcers of Sharia law, and even elected European members of parliament are now being put on trial, for criticizing the Koran. Geert Wilders latest trial is a case in point.
American Christians need to pray for Egyptian Christians, and speak out in defence of their rights. But American Christians also need the prayers of true believers in Christ, such as those persecuted Christians of the Muslim world, so that America does not become an enforcer of Sharia law like Western Europe.
Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body. (Heb. 13:3)
The UN should create a coptic state in sinai. Preferably adjacent to gaza.
The Coptic Christians have one thing on their side—one thing that will see them victorious—Jesus Christ, King of Kings.
riiiight
because christians have NEVER lost a war before.
America did everything it could...to make the destruction of ancient Orthodox Christian Churches and Monasteries in Kosovo a reality.
It is possible that acceptance of dhimmi status and paying of the tax is a defacto submission to Islam. Jesus instructed the disciples once in how to obtain the temple tax, so one might argue that it is similar, but given the ROP’s notion of submission, martyrdom may be viewed as an alternative to apostasy.
Not sure about my interpretation here, just thinking out loud.
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