Posted on 02/12/2019 6:58:37 AM PST by SeekAndFind
What does Matthew 10:34 say? Which things are forbidden according to Christianity? Can you describe the sacraments?
If these questions seem hard – even unanswerable – to you, you're lucky not to be a Christian asylum seeker in Sweden.
Since many years back, the Swedish Migration Board tries to differentiate between "real" converts from Islam to Christianity that risk persecution in their countries of origin, and "fake" ones who only seek a cheap way to gain asylum, by asking various questions.
Sweden being a very secular country, most officials who come up with these questions are not Christians themselves. Furthermore, they don't have much knowledge about Christianity – even though they might think so themselves.
Me and some friends decided to conduct an experiment. We designed a test called "Am I a Christian" based on real questions the Swedish migration board had been asking converts the last couple of years.
Apart from the three mentioned above, the test included questions like "How many parts does the New Testament have?", "What's the difference between the Protestant church and the Orthodox church" as well as the inflammatory "What are your thoughts on the New Testament being very anti-women?"
The test went viral. Pastors, priests, bishops, theologians, celebrities... all kinds of people answered the questions and shared their results on social media. Within four days, over 100,000 people had participated. Only 300 of them scored more than 60 % correct answers.
"Am I a Christian" sparked a huge debate. Most people agree that the questions converts face are too hard and do not really say anything about whether someone's faith is genuine or not. Several questions display a secular bias and an ignorance of what true Christian faith is about.
As the Swedish Council of Churches has pointed out, priests and pastors have far better competence to recognize genuine Christian faith. Thus, their testimonies should weigh heavy in these types of investigations.
The Migration Board themselves gave contradictory replies. Their representatives both defended the usage of these types of questions, and on the very same day denied that they are being used at all.
During the last couple of weeks, many more examples of ridiculous questions have been unearthed. In December 2018, a convert was labeled as disingenuous because he could not account for what All Saints Eve was about. Earlier, another convert was told he does not need to evangelize because "the Church of Sweden does not do missions".
Even more absurd, one convert was asked to recite the Lord's prayer. His interpreter mistranslated one line to "deliver us from traffic accidents", which made the Migration Board condemn the convert to deportation since him "only praying for protection against traffic accidents" was treated with suspicion.
This is a full-blown catastrophe. Genuine Christians are being deported to countries where Christians are persecuted simply because Swedish government officials are incompetent and hostile towards Christianity.
In olden days, testers handed the would-be Christians a piece of pork and said, ‘Bon-appetit’.
Soon to be islamist Sweden.
Shibboleth vs. Sibboleth.
Good article, but, “Me and some friends ...”
fingernail screeching grammar !
Have them eat pig products. Have them say out loud that muhamad was a pedophile. And force them to watch a gay pride parade.
And now you understand the Inquisition. It began at the request of the newly re-established Catholic monarchy in Spain to root-out undercover mohammedans and other “false-Christians” from their courts. It morphed into political targeting and persecution and went on for more than 4 centuries after the Church excused Herself.
Should Christians approve of gay pride parades? More pertinent is, would God raise a prophet who hates Jews, and denies Jesus is the Son of God? Every Christian today should acknowledge that Mohammed was a false prophet, and in fact possessed by demons.
Yet, the very fact that the Swedish Inquisition is “known to the government” (created BY the Swedish government to test and prohibit and limit potential Christian asylum) which is ENCOURAGING and FUNDING Muslim immigration and asylum with NO TEST, means that the test answers can get to their (intended) Muslim audience easily and without complaint!
Thus, a Muslim (who desires to cheat the standard) can “pass the Inquisition” by knowing specific “facts”, while an innocent Christian is trapped and deported.
“Me and some friends decided . . . “
Personally, I consider such offenses against grammar as a mortal sin!
Further, I would like to ask . . .
If we are commanded to honor our father and mother, shouldn’t we also honor our grammar?
our grammar?
Klevereeseemoe !
Monty Python would know what to do with this.
I’m happy to see ‘me’ used at all any more. The fear of being called out for the misuse of ‘me’ leads to very stilted, forced, and incorrect use of ‘I’ by most people.
Unless you’re prepared to pay the syntax.
So it is not enough to memorize the New Testament, but you have to know the chapter and verse numbers as well? The verse numbers were not added until the 1500s, so obviously there were no real Christians before that.
Presumably you're talking about Ferdinand and the far more talented Isabella, the Inquisition was nearly 300 years old at the time. Mostly killing other Christians. As it likely did in Spain as well.
Thanks Robert A Cook PE.
The Swedish Inquisition begins.
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