Posted on 01/19/2014 5:05:00 PM PST by ReformationFan
Progressives will be furiously ignoring this development. Progressivists believe in linear history, where things just get more and more left wing. Bringing up the fact that the most progressive government in history, the Soviet Union, collapsed and had to rebuild itself as a more conservative, non-Progressive country. History is nowhere near linear.
LOL. My church sends missionaries to England and Scotland.
The end must be near.
e had two seminarians doing internships at our parish last year: one from Colombia, one from Romania.
Political movements come and go. Collectivism has built-in time limits which must lead to its replacement. And a suffocated people will seek air.
You can smash the Jew and the Christian, but God will remain faithful and restore.
Good point. The progs can ignore it all they want but that doesn’t mean it’s not happening. God is on His throne and His ultimate will will never be stopped by them.
**Hungary, Croatia, and elsewhere in Eastern Europe**
The churches in Poland were packed when I went there five years ago, but not so in Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Austria.
So to me, this is great news!
They’ll be dealing with the swelling Muslim hordes now slowly destroying Europe before they get a chance to be sent to us as missionaries. We’ll have to fend for ourselves I expect.
**Hungary, Croatia, and elsewhere in Eastern Europe**The churches in Poland were packed when I went there five years ago, but not so in Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Austria.
So to me, this is great news!
Our church supports a missionary family working in what was East Germany, in Berlin. It is a hard and hardened place.
Good news, thank you.
Not anytime soon, they have enough problems at home. In these two countries, particularly Croatia, there have been victories for Christianity and values voters, but that does not change the fact that there is still a large element of militant secularism trying to storm the gates.
Case in point, the marriage amendment in Croatia was the brainchild of the Catholic Church, using the law as it stood to get a referendum set up and circumvent an effort that was underway to bring civil partnerships to the country. The referendum itself was decried by people across all sectors of the government. So in Croatia, you have a government that is actually further to the left than the population at large. We’ve got a long way to go in that nation to preserve it as a bulwark against Euro-headed feminization and socially engineered destruction.
Hungary has a less daunting task ahead, mainly because the left wing there is in disarray. I think Viktor Orban is someone American conservatives should study. He was a communist in his teen years, but then had a change of heart and became a leading figure in the movement to free Hungary from Soviet satellite status. He gained political acclaim for his speech during the burial of martyrs after the failed 1956 Hungarian Revolution, where he demanded Soviet troops leave Hungary for good.
A few years later, he founded Hungary’s right-wing party, Fidesz.
For a while after the fall of communism, a Orban’s first presidency, Hungary’s Socialist Party was the major political player, but throughout the 00s, Orban engineered its downfall and the rise of his own political movement.
He now has a super-majority in parliament, as a coalition government with a sister-party, the Christian Democratic People’s Party. They control 263 seats out of the total 386. What’s even more impressive is that as a further roadblock to the Hungarian left, Orban has allowed the growth of the nationalist Jobbik Party that holds a further 43 seats and would never be in coalition with the Socialists.
During his tenure, Orban has clipped the wings of the activist judiciary precisely to prevent the things we see our own leftist judges doing right here in the USA. ‘One of the main reasons the Eurocrats HATE him and wanted to haul him into European court.
A class-A politician at any rate.
It’s also worth mentioning Poland. It was a wonderful sight to see them recently torch a massive, ugly rainbow set up outside a college in a night of protest. Poland’s right wing is growing.
I don’t hold out a lot of hope for the Czechs. They’ve become to westernized ‘absorbed by the Borg’ as it were. And Austria will be majority Islamic by about 2060, so I’d probably write them off too.
Although Slovakia will be part of a rising Christian sentiment from the east, by my estimation. They have more in common with the Russian side of Europe than the French side.
Ironically, American Christians may one day be moving there. The persecution is coming.
So-called “progressives” hate actual progress.Article 1 Section 8. The Congress shall have power . . . To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries . . .”Progressives” don’t oppose the patent office, of course. But while giving lip service to progress in the abstract, they put up a furious NIMBY blockade against any particular large project for the progress of the people. And as to science, they’re all for it - provided it doesn’t disturb their political agenda by debunking “manmade global warming.” Or any other “progressive” political agenda.
If you label socialists “progressive” in the future, scare quotes would be appropriate in order to avoid promoting Newspeak.
My parish has a parishoner, a gentleman whose son is a priest, the priest son has been ministering in Nigeria, his bishop gave him permission to come to the USA to get his doctorate and could very well come to my parish.
Look for Christian missionaries to be coming from the global south nations, such as from Africa and Asia to come to America as missionaries.
See the graphic. Note the horizontal blue line in the center.
That is the equator. Above that line is north, below it is south.
Note also that no part of Asia is south of the equator.
Asia is not and never has been any part of "global south".
To correct you.
Thank you for the information. I never thought about Asia being north of the equator in its entirety. I learned something.
So? No biggie.
No biggie except that you are apparently ignorant of geography.
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