“For how long should we accept Saudi Arabia’s ban on Christianity on their soil while, simultaneously, aiding them in promoting Islam on our own?”
Very good question.
If it’s a genuine conversion, and they know that it doesn’t aid their ‘asylum’ request, I can’t see a valid reason for ministers not to christen them. Granted, we in the West have functionally abandoned the Christians of Iraq and Egypt in preference of a (supposed) multicultural deference to Mohammadans, and many so-called Christians even on this site would seem to favor Israeli Jewish interests over Palestinian and Lebanese Christian ones, if they are even acknowledged, should they ever be in conflict. But if we’re going to be fair-minded, we can’t just do it when it’s convenient or easy, or not do something we think is right just because someone somewhere isn’t going to like it or threatens to do harm.
Only if we claim no one else but us has agency can we absolve others of responsibility for the things they do. And those who do absolve all others outside the West of responsibility for their actions, and who particularly absolve all those beyond heterosexual men of European descent and Christian heritage, claiming that the bad things they do are only due to the things we do - how can they defend this position in light of its conformity with what they would deride as racist thinking? And is then the counterpart to that line of thought also something they claim - that the good things other peoples do are due to the things we do?
“If it’s a genuine conversion, and they know that it doesn’t aid their ‘asylum’ request, I can’t see a valid reason for ministers not to christen them.”
- Totally agree. We shouldn't hesitate to spread Christianity.
The World needs more of it.
Thanks for contributing and the usual hearty greetings from Gothenburg!