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| Why Don't Christians Care (by John Hinderaker of Power Line) |
| 2010-03-12 |
| In a number of places around the world, it is open season on Christians. We read of Christians burned out of their homes and slaughtered in Pakistan. Most recently, at least 500 Christians were murdered in Nigeria. The attackers in all cases are Muslims. "We have over 500 killed in three villages and the survivors are busy burying their dead," said state information commissioner Gregory Yenlong. "People were attacked with axes, daggers and cutlasses -- many of them children, the aged and pregnant women." I don't know what denomination those Nigerian Christians were, but Lutherans are the most numerous Christian denomination in Africa. I'm a Lutheran, but I have never heard a single word from any church source, local or national, about the mass murder of African Christians. No one he means, I think, no one in the Lutheran Church hierarchy seems to care. No doubt readers can refer us to some Christian sources--evangelical, most likely--who have tried to draw attention to the plight of Christians in Africa, the Middle East and Asia who are being exterminated. But any such effort has wholly failed to gain traction in the "mainstream" Christian community similarly the historic arab slave trade never seems to be noticed by blacks, the anti homosexual pronouncements of various Imans never seems to be noticed by gays, the misogynist actions in the Umma never seem to be protested by women. Why? I can't explain it. Maybe "mainstream" Christianity is dead, except as an appendage of secular liberal opinion. Maybe, as the world's largest religion, Christianity has become so diffused that New World Christians don't much relate to their co-religionists in Africa and Asia. I don't know. What I do know is that it is much more dangerous to publish a cartoon of Mohammed than to slice apart a Christian with a machete. |
| Posted by:lord garth |
| #3 I don't believe that's a fair assessment, Highlander. How many churches have you attended? |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-03-12 13:17 |
| #2 One must first define "Christian". IMHO, mainstream Western denominations are no longer Christian, except in ritual, but are indeed arms of secular humanism. |
| Posted by: Highlander 2010-03-12 10:54 |
| #1 Cause it so much more fun---safer too, to condemn Israel. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-03-12 03:55 |