Posted on 07/30/2017 6:38:04 PM PDT by marshmallow
Recently, Barnabas Aid has drawn attention to the increasing hostility to evangelical Christians that has characterised some sections of the media and even some government institutions. Over the past 12 months we have seen Christian politicians asked overtly theological questions and attempts by some mainstream media in the recent UK general election to ”out” parliamentary candidates as Christians, declaring them “unfit” to hold public office because they held mainstream Christian beliefs such as believing in miracles.
In other words, a significant parallel is now developing between how gay people were treated by the press a generation or so ago, and the way that evangelical Christians are now being treated by the media and some sections of government.
One of the reasons for this is that the ideological beliefs of social liberalism are now being treated as a litmus test of social acceptability - not by society at large, but by a large part of the political and media class. Some social liberals are attempting to hijack the definition of extremism to foist their own sectarian ideology on wider society and brand anyone who disagrees with it, including evangelical Christians, as “extremists”.
This week The Spectator drew attention to the risk, pointing to a poll that the Evangelical Alliance recently conducted on what people regarded as ”extremist”. The Spectator observed...
(Excerpt) Read more at barnabasfund.org ...
If from Islamophilia or support for the poofters, we can expect this to intensify.
I know a lot of FReepers are still living in the 1960s, but it may well be that Christians in parts of China have more freedom of worship and expression than do Christians in parts of Europe.
>held mainstream Christian beliefs such as believing in miracles.
Believing in a miracle is one thing, making law with it is another. Nothing happens until it happens. Reality included...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDiZG-eAk30
“but it may well be that Christians in parts of China have more freedom of worship and expression than do Christians in parts of Europe.”
You are correct
As an Anglophile and an English-speaking Christian, I consider the demise of Christian Britain a huge tragedy. I don’t understand how a people turns its back on and abandons its culture, especially one with such a rich legacy.
See OT Israel and Judah. It can happen.
True.
“As an Anglophile and an English-speaking Christian, I consider the demise of Christian Britain a huge tragedy. I don’t understand how a people turns its back on and abandons its culture, especially one with such a rich legacy.”
You’re absolutely right. It is indeed a tragedy.
This sounds similar to what Bernie Sanders did in that committee hearing, saying that an applicant for a gov’t post was not acceptable because of his belief in who was condemned, which was standard Christian doctrine.
If you are an atheist who believes in evolution, you believe in miracles, too.
I'd say the atheist's faith has to be great....consider what they believe.
Something came from nothing.
Life came from lifelessness.
Not to mention the incredible odds it would take for life to show up on this planet in just the right environment.
That's tremendous faith.
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