[barton]

I am not familiar with TheStar but a quick glance leads me to conclude that they are generally a bunch of liebral, atheist scum... even by vile Canadian standards. This is why I find the following piece noteworthy.

Christianity arguably the most persecuted religion in the world
by Ron Csillag

Virtually every human rights group and Western government agency that monitors the plight of Christians worldwide arrives at more or less the same conclusion: Between 200 million and 230 million of them face daily threats of murder, beating, imprisonment and torture, and a further 350 to 400 million encounter discrimination in areas such as jobs and housing. A conservative estimate of the number of Christians killed for their faith each year is somewhere around 150,000.

Christians face harassment in more countries “than any other religious group,” a Pew Forum spokesperson told the Star.
Put in sJesus focus, “at least” 75 per cent of all religious persecution in the world is directed against Christians, the conference was told.

Of course, the writer takes his own pot shot at Christianity...

Maybe pew-bound Christians should instead heed the sentiments of escaped American slave Frederick Douglass: “I prayed for 20 years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.”

The connotation is multifaceted. Basically, the author is saying that Christians are to blame for their suffering because God obviously doesn't answer prayer. He's saying Christians are stupid for continuing to pray to an uncaring God. He's saying that Christians should expect to face more and more persecution until they take up arms.

Well, guess what? Jesus is coming and it's not going to pretty for folks like Ron Csillag! Just wait till the Lamb starts paying everyone back.

[BelieverInGod]

AMEN Brother,

The thing is, if you're a white True Christian male, the liebrals seem to think that you deserve any prejudices or assults you receive as "payback" for "all dem yearz of slavry". Doesn't matter whether or not your family ever owned slaves, doesn't matter that you have done nothing yourself. But if you're a white Christian heterosexual male, you won't get the job because it has to go to a minority, you aren't allowed to park near the mall doors, you can't get government subsidies, you can't get rent protection. Nope, True Christians are on their own.

Yet somehow we seem to make it to the top.

[Lisa H]

How true Brother Barton. How times are we True Christian™ persecuted on our very own forum here at Landover Baptist.

[X-treme Zealotry]

Originally Posted by barton

Maybe pew-bound Christians should instead heed the sentiments of escaped American slave Frederick Douglass: “I prayed for 20 years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.”

What a foolish thing to say.
Does he think Frederick Douglass reached freedom under his own power?
Did Douglass think it was his power that prevented his slave-owners from running him down? No, it was the hand of God. God answered his prayer.
Perhaps if he had more faith, he would have run sooner. God undoubtedly had the way opened for him.

It's a case that echoes our bondage to sin. So many foolish people these days go about calling themselves "seekers" or some other New Age-y term and asking God for a way to save them from their sins, ignorant (perhaps willfully) that God has already provided that way through Jesus Christ. It is their fault for not taking what He has offered.

I disdain this atheist view of looking down on Christians as lazy who never do anything because they think God will do it for them. Christianity is hard work. That book in the Bible is called the ACTS of the Apostles for a reason. Christians do many things, the key is that we do them because it is God's will: "I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me." - Philippians 4:13