posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 12:11 AM
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I guess, Carl, that my so called brethren in Christ, at least in the US, are too busy with their mega churches. I don't know if I am having a crisis in my faith, but I find more kinship with the Jews than with Christians of late. Somehow, the idea of loving one's neighbor as one would love oneself has freakishly morphed into "if we be nice to them, maybe they will like us." I don't know if this would work, but I think that if we would publically denounce Mohammed as a false prophet, and Allah as a false god, the way Father Zakaria is bravely doing, using the words of the prophet against Islam. He seems at least to be making inroads into the minds of Muslims, causing them to question their faith. I only wish the Christians would do it here. We are cowards and traitors to our God and our scriptures. We should hang our heads in shame.
I suppose the question can also be asked in the same manner....
"Has the Main Stream Media(MSM) ever published anything that real True Christans have ever said?"
The MSM hardly ever presents the Truth about what happens in Israel - so do you expect any different treatment from the MSM for the real Christian Community? (And who takes notice of Christians anyway - the United Nations ?( yeah right),the Goverments of...America ?,
England ?, China ?,Saudi Arabia? - your joking right??? )
There are more Christians getting slotted now than anytime in history - all over the world - been going on for some time - ever read it about in your local newspaper (T.V , Radio) ?- ever read about the North Korean Christains who actually lived underground in hiding for years until they were betrayed and
"re-educated"?
Ever read about Egyptian Christians getting killed and their family fleeing - ever see anything in the paper about them?
Yes - the Christian Community knows ( where I live anyway) alright and prays hard out for them and try to help - just don't expect to see anything in the MSM about it.Also there is the security angle - one wrong word said and a Christian person/Christian Community can get "re educated in the fields" somewhere - that is reeducated by a 9mm or years in a "reeducation camp" - and I am not joking. I have to careful of what I say on the internet to one family in a foreign country.
Sometimes Carl you just have to ask the right people.
Carl, maybe it's the same reason why so many Christians said nothing about the Jews being led to slaughter by Hitler. As long as they are safe, to hell with the Joos!
It is not fair to say that Christians are silent about this.
The secular major media are silent, but that is because they hate Christians more than Jews. I know that Christian churches - Catholic, Evangelical and otherwise, have discussed this frequently.
When you have a media which would rather talk about Darfur than the oppression of Christians in the same country, doesn't it tell you all you need to know? The LEFT is Philo-Islamic because the enemy of their enemy is their friend. That Islam is the enemy of Western "Liberalism", both historically and currently defined, makes no difference to them.
Secularism is the enemy, and those in control of the major media are haters of religion - but only the religions they know.
I suspect that for the Catholic Church one of the reasons is that they don't want to make the situation worse for Christians in Muslim dominated lands. Muslims take offence very easily. Hence while the plight of Christians in Gaza received some play in December as it was possible to (implicitly) blame the Israelis for it, the far worse conditions of Christians in Pakistan were ignored. As good dhimmis the Christians in the MidEast would find some way to blame the Americans or the Jews, but the Pakistani Christians have no such scapegoats, they'd finger the touchy Muslims. Any crimes commited against them would then be put down to poverty or ecological disasters.
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