French priest Father Jacques HamelPosted on 09/17/2016 3:45:42 PM PDT by NRx
Liberal Church leaders in Sweden have opposed an initiative aimed at showing support for persecuted Christians. After the murder of French priest Father Jacques Hamel by jihadists in July three Swedish priests started an initiative called Mitt kors (“My cross”) in which Swedish Christians took “selfies” with a cross to show solidarity with persecuted Christians. However, the initiative has been attacked by liberal church leaders apparently concerned that it might offend Muslims! The head of communications for the Church of Sweden even called it “seditious and un-Christian”. The Church of Sweden's attacks on the "My cross" initiative continued until one of the priests who had started it publicly left the Church of Sweden. In a newspaper article, Johanna Andersson, the priest who has resigned wrote:
"Church leadership has for several weeks been running a campaign against us who started the group 'My cross.' In this campaign, I have been discredited, called 'questionable', 'unclean', 'agitator', 'un-Christian' and attributed xenophobic hidden agendas."
French priest Father Jacques Hamel
The Church of Sweden’s campaign against the “My cross” initiative has led Dr Ann Heberlein, a lecturer in Theology at Lund University to accuse it of effectively replacing Christianity with Humanism. In a newspaper article commenting on the church’s stance she suggested that:
"The leadership of the Church of Sweden no longer wants to lead a Christian community; they want to lead a general ethical association for humanistic values of the most vulgar kind."
Sweden deserves everything they get. And, from the look of things they are gonna have a rough road ahead.
Speechless but predictable.
This is evil and cowardice rolled up into one disgusting bundle. May these so-called vicars of Christ roast in hell for their perversion of Christianity.
Ten thousand swedes running through the weeds......
Many of the churches and the pastors that run them have lost their way.
CHURCH leaders?
What kind of church leaders are these when they won’t even support their own flock?
They are the most utmost cowards and should be stripped of any ‘leadership’ role.
Well the good one manned the long ships and escaped 1600 years ago.
Theres a certain dead king of Sweden who is rolling over in his grave...
he died fighting for his country to have the freedom to worship as Christians..
I am offended by Muslims.
Odin needs some new sacrifices.
The joint ecumenical event will take place in the city of Lund in anticipation of the 500th Reformation anniversary in 2017.
Rapid as the advance of Islam is, it is not nearly as rapid as the retreat of Christianity.
Oden! Guide our ships,
Our axes spears and swords
Guide us through the storms that whip
And in brutal war!
But then the Swedish government would ban death metal.
Sweden has become a nation of snowflakes. No different from Minnesota.
That is what makes this so detestable.
I went on the facebook page of this and the selfies of crosses are about as mild and inoffensive as can be. Many are just of personal crosses people own. This draws the ire from supposed leaders? The cross of Jesus Christ is indeed a stumbling block in this fallen world.
Islam is offensive: Surrender or Die! is not only offensive, it is a statement of criminal intent to murder.
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