Posted on 04/14/2017 7:57:24 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
“Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? (My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?)” Those are among Jesus’ last words on the Cross that first Good Friday.
It was a cry of agony, but not despair. The dying Christ, to rise again in three days, was repeating the first words of the 22nd Psalm.
And today, in lands where Christ lived and taught and beyond where the Christian faith was born and nourished, the words echo. For it is in the birthplace of Christianity that Christians face the greatest of persecutions and martyrdoms since the time of Vladimir Lenin and Josef Stalin.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2017/04/will-christianity-perish-in-its-birthplace/#48A8K4iejUcDIzzC.99
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The only place which the Christian folks and shrines are protected is the Holy Land. That is a credit to Israel.
Seriously? I used to think Benjamin Netanyahu was exaggerating when he said "Israel is the only democracy in the middle east" but I've researched most of the "elections" in the rest of those countries and his statement is pretty accurate. Even in countries where they let "the people" elect their leaders, they tend to restrict the amount of involvement they have in choosing their government. The middle east is the LEAST democratic region of the world. I'd like to know what you've been smoking to believe its the MOST democratic.
I'm not smoking anything, you just misunderstood the point that I was making. Advocates of "regime change" and "nation building" in the Middle East want to overthrow secular autocrats and replace them with whoever is selected in a democratic election. The outcome of "democratic elections" in the Middle East is something like the Muslim Brotherhood (or worse), who persecute Christians and other non-Muslims. In contrast, secular dictatorships in those countries usually leave Christians alone or even protect them as allies against Islamist opposition.
If/when those dictators are overthrown or weakened, Christians and other non-Muslims are the first to be persecuted, expelled or killed by the new "democratically elected" leaders.
India was the home of Buddha—but the religion he started died out there—but lives in other lands.
Moslems wiped out the Buddhists of the Indian subcontinent.
They don’t want merely regime change, they want failed states. Dysfunctional countries are too busy in internecine conflict to look without, and certainly project any threat outside, their immediate lands. This is the neocon agenda and has been the plan since the early 1970’s. It’s demonic. And these people are monsters with the deaths of millions on their hands. And the obliteration of Christianity in the Middle East. But we shouldn’t be surprised, they’ve also sought to de-Christianize the West and are now virulently anti-Russian after the overthrow of the kleptocratic oligarchs (who Larry Summers and Stanley Fischer placed in charged of the major Russian industries when they planned the post-Soviet Russian economy) and rise of the Christian church in Russia. They react to the cross of the Christ in the same way Dracula does.
I like your post. Made me remember something:
Do you remember why National Review (at the height of their neocon infiltration) dropped Ann Coulter’s column? It was because she advocated “Christianizing” the Middle East.
OK, they may have had legit reasons other than that. But your post reminded me of that episode.
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