Posted on 11/06/2012 7:04:13 AM PST by marshmallow
I recently concluded my second visit to Cuba in eighteen months. On my way out, I asked the airline official why I was given the luxury of sitting in the exit row. He smiled and replied, The Holy Book says, Do unto others what you want them to do unto you. When I asked him if he believed the Holy Book was from God, he laughed. Of course! I am a disciple of Jesus Christ. Are you?
This was the last of scores of encounters over my previous week that signaled great changes underway in Cuba, both religious and political.
My sense of change is anecdotal, as it has to be. Cuba does not permit opinion polls that could be conducted freely, and publishes little or nothing reliable on the state of religious practice or political beliefs among the population.
Yet Christianity in Cuba is almost certainly experiencing a revival. Catholic churches are filling on Sunday mornings, and Evangelical churchesmostly Baptist and Pentecostalare growing continually. Worship is exuberant, with an intensity I have not seen even in the most enthusiastic charismatic churches of the States. Think of great Cuban musicwith trumpets and saxophones and drums and heroic voicesand add Spirit-charged zeal. The result is exhilaration.
I spoke to one Evangelical pastor whose church crowds with eight hundred worshippers on Sundays. He plans to build a church that seats two thousand. Young Cubans told me excitedly of growing spiritual interest everywhere they go. They go door-to-door inviting people to join home worship groups.
Things have not always been this way. In 1962, Castros government closed four hundred Catholic schools because their dangerous beliefs were spreading. Church leaders were sent to re-education and work camps, where many died. Until 1991, Christians, especially church leaders, were overtly persecuted. Professing faith in public usually........
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Castro is on the way out - for sure.
Castro is on the way out - for sure.
Change will only come when both Castros are below room temp. It’s nice to hear what you say, but that is the sad truth. There is no possible way other than their departure from the face of Cuba!
The Castro brothers are allowing these little tastes of freedom just to relieve the political pressure that could easily lead to another revolution and their ouster. Make no mistake Cuba is still a brutal communist dictatorship and always will be until the Castros are overthrown.
After watching him outlive so many US presidents, ill believe it when I see it.
And even then, the evil won’t be over. The Cuban people have been corrupted for generations. It’s not the land of Oz, where Dorothy’s house can fall on top of the wicked witch, and then everyone is free.
The author is right there will be change...soon.
WE do have Poland and other such nations as an example of what happens once the Communists lose power.
There is that...
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