Posted on 07/07/2022 6:39:01 PM PDT by marshmallow
(CP) Finnish lawmaker Päivi Räsänen, prosecuted for voicing her traditional Christian beliefs about marriage and sexuality, believes that a "heavy hatred for Christian values" in Western society will cause many Christians to censor themselves for social acceptance.
The former interior minister who has served in Finnish Parliament for nearly three decades was one of several global political figures to speak at the annual International Religious Freedom Summit in Washington, D.C., this week.
The event aims to increase "the public awareness and political strength for the international religious freedom movement. The summit is led by former Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback, who led similar events at the State Department headquarters during the Trump administration.
In March, Räsänen was cleared of hate speech charges for repeatedly asserting her belief that marriage should be between a man and a woman. But her legal battle continues as the prosecution has appealed the ruling to a higher court.
She spoke with The Christian Post ahead of her participation in a panel discussion at the summit focused on religious freedom in the Western Hemisphere Thursday.
As she faced a possibility of up to six years imprisonment, the 62-year-old politician attributed her prosecution to Finland becoming a "post-Christian world" where "Christian values are, in fact, a minority."
"The change has been so fast that it is difficult to understand what is happening," She said.
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Well, ya. Jesus kind of showed us this.
6 years for expressing a personal belief.
Many of is will be following her to jail or the chopping block.
And she’s 1000% correct.
Western society hates Christ and Christianity more than Jihad Islam.
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If somebody could please go back in time and kill Karl Marx as a baby.
The Atheist Left hate Christianity. They demand no limits on their sexual appetites.
They consider themselves as gods, or at minimum, the government as god on earth.
And it is being replaced by something so much better. /s
She is a Lutheran pastor’s wife.
There were plenty of socialist and communist advocates before Marx.
Pink Swastika is alive and well.
Typically at the end of a civilization religious values are lost.
You are basically looking at the end of a civilization. This is a common thread throughout history, documented well in the Bible.
Jews embraced Baal worship and were overrun.
In the east Buddhists devolved into ancestor worship and animism then communists took over.
The Mayan priests (certainly a deviation from what we would see as a religion), no matter how many humans were sacrificed, the rains wouldn’t come.
Now the west has mostly abandoned Christianity and Judaism and we are nearing the end, unless there is either a serious revival or a separation into religious and atheistic countries (which would be the best outcome given the times, but the busy bodies on the left will not stand for anything but total submission to their perversions).
Yes, we live in the last days. Enjoy.
It’s true.
““If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also. But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. He who hates Me hates My Father also.
But this happened that the word might be fulfilled which is written in their law, ‘They hated Me without a cause.’”
John 15:18-23, 25 NKJV
https://www.bible.com/114/jhn.15.18-23,25.nkjv
Two words: Second Amendment
it’s not ‘western society’ that hates Christianity.
it’s the progressive left and their atheistic mantra pushed on kids.
this is further compounded by the freakshow pushing every sexually deviant behavior as ‘normal’ and any opposition as ‘backward’ or ‘close minded’
screw them
Pretty ironic since Western Civilization wouldn’t really exist if not for Christianity.
pastor in America arrested twice for preaching the gospel at gay rallies- They told him he couldn’t be there- he told them he had a right to be there- and they arrested him
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Many Christians will act like Peter did
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