This is Moscow at some Muslim holiday.
Posted on 04/24/2017 12:31:03 PM PDT by IDontLikeToPayTaxes
It appears that Russia is leading the way towards a much-needed rejection of "religious freedom" in the West:
Source from NRO: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/446966/russia-jehovahs-witnesses-ban-continues-putin-religious-persecution
Russia’s crackdown on religious activity took a major step forward this week as the Justice
Ministry banned Jehovah’s Witnesses. Russia has steadily curtailed rights to evangelize in recent
years, but this move signals their commitment to aggressively policing private religious activity.
The Russian supreme court ruled that Jehovah’s Witnesses amount to an “extremist group,” and
therefore the government is shutting down their headquarters and local chapters, seizing their
property, and banning them from meeting.
Vladimir Putin’s campaign to strengthen ties between the government and the Russian Orthodox
denomination has included the passing of absurdly broad laws that prohibit “religious discord” and
can easily be deployed against any religion or sect. This ruling will directly harm the 175,000
Jehovah’s Witnesses in the country, but it also poses a clear threat to other minority religious
groups, such as Protestant Christians. Without genuine protections for the free exercise of
religion, the government has remarkably free rein to determine the social benefits of a given
religion — and that means trampling the consciences of those who fall victim to government caprice.
I don't suppose there are any other religious groups that pose a similar threat to the Russian people, their security, and public order, are there?
Religious freedom is a bogus and ill-considered pseudoright. In practice, it has been turned into a weapon that is almost solely used against Christianity across the West, and therefore it has to be abandoned. It has always been a charade anyhow; any religious belief or practice that challenges the state is always going to be banned no matter how sincerely held it may be. No one is about to let Aztecs start mass sacrificing to the sun or permit Druids to burn people in wicker baskets, no matter how historically legitimate their religious traditions are.
In like manner, any religion that harms the commonwealth merits similar outlaw status. Let people live among others of like religion if they wish to practice their religious traditions. How serious and sincere can their beliefs be anyway, and how much do those beliefs merit respect, if non-Christians would rather live in Christendom among Christians than where Islam, Hinduism, Shinto, or Judaism are the state religion?
Don't be fooled by the appeal to imaginary fears for Protestants. The concept of religious freedom in the USA died the moment prayer was banned in the public schools, and the coffin was nailed shut when Muslim immigration was encouraged. There is no legitimate moral, legal, or philosophical reason that every nation in Christendom should not proceed to ban all non-Christian religions as readily as atheist regimes banned Christianity in the 20th century.
The Enlightenment, such as it was, ended a long time ago. It failed. It is long past time to reject its failed liberal precepts.
Oh I'm sure the Cuckservatives will get their panties in a bunch when they read this.
Religious freedom! It's in Muh Constitution!
Satanism and Islam have just as legitimacy as Christianity!
IBTZ
Religion more than anything else represents a world view, a way of life.
It is logically impossible for two religions, or world views, with 180 degree opposite values to peacefully coexist together.
Such is the case of islam and just about any other religion.
So the idea of “religious freedom” is moronic at best, and the first amendment with the protection of the EXERCISE of religion is misguided at best, and irrational in fact.
How can you allow the free EXERCISE of a religion that wants to kill or enslave all those that exercise a different religion?
Trolling skills = 2 of 5 stars
The REAL problem is islam!!!!
As a “religion”, islam has as “much” legitimacy as the religion of the Aztecs or of the Moloch-worshiping Canaanites!!!! This was pointed out in a course on the Constitution given by Hillsdale College. Of course, I do not see any federal court doing things that way.
However, one can outlaw the muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization, and close its mosques and CAiR, etc. The Trump Administration has been thinking about this, but I don’t see any action!!!!
In reality, islam is a totalitarian ideology more than a religion. Phooey, anyway!!!!
I’m not attempting to troll.
Freedom of religion for muslims means others must die.
Islam demands everyone on earth submit or die.
They are commanded by their prophet to subjugate, convert or kill everyone else on the planet.
Islam means submission.
And they are serious about that.
"Freedom of Religion" has been used as a weapon against Christianity for decades.
It's not just Islam, it's the Left's assault against Christianity.
That's the thrust of the article.
Whenever one debates with a person who does not know or accept the Bible, they typically think all religions are basically the same. But they are not. Not by a long shot.
<>In like manner, any religion that harms the commonwealth merits similar outlaw status.<>
AMF islam.
Read the opening to our Declaration, and the Preamble to our Constitution. An ideology that opposes these first principles cannot be a right!
This is Moscow at some Muslim holiday.
The Russian Orthodox Church as rightfully identified feminized churchians from the US as a vector of pozzz.
At any rate, this is all moot, as Mr. "Cuck" has been banned.
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