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To: P-Marlowe
The Prince of Wales. Don't believe the crap the liberal media tries to feed you about him - when they don't publish anything he says that they disagree with, and only publish the few things he says that they like, and because he's a conservative, they try to make him out to be a joke by selectively publishing only certain photos and ignoring everything else he does. This, added to their hero worship, of the later Princess of Wales, that makes them think they have to paint him as a villain in that very complex situation (he was far from faultless, but so was she), means people have a very warped idea.

Read the following, which is from a speech he made just because Christmas in 2013 - have you heard about him saying these things? Because it's also not the only time he has done it.

For myself, I have for some time now been deeply troubled by the growing difficulties faced by Christian communities in various parts of the Middle East. It seems to me that we cannot ignore the fact that Christians in the Middle East are, increasingly, being deliberately targeted by fundamentalist Islamist militants. Christianity was, literally, born in the Middle East and we must not forget our Middle Eastern brothers and sisters in Christ. Their church communities link us straight back to the early Church, as I was reminded by hearing Aramaic, Our Lord's own language, spoken and sung a few hours ago.

Yet, today, the Middle East and North Africa has the lowest concentration of Christians in the world – just four per cent of the population and it is clear that the Christian population of the Middle East has dropped dramatically over the last century and is falling still further.

This has an effect on all of us, although, of course, primarily on those Christians who can no longer continue to live in the Middle East: we all lose something immensely and irreplaceably precious when such a rich tradition dating back two thousand years begins to disappear. It is, therefore, especially delightful to see such a rich panoply of church life here to-day, including the Antiochian, Greek, Coptic, Syrian, and Armenian Orthodox Churches, the Melkite, Maronite, Syrian Catholic, Chaldean, and Roman Catholic Churches, as well as the Church of the East, and Churches established, dare I say it, somewhat more recently, including the Anglican Church!

In saying all this about the difficulties facing the Christian churches in the Middle East I am, of course, conscious that they are not the only faith community in this region suffering at the moment, nor is the Middle East the only part of the world in which Christians are suffering, but, given the particularly acute circumstances faced by the church communities in the Middle East to-day, I felt it worthwhile to draw attention to their current plight. It is important to note, above all, that the decline of Christians in the region represents a major blow to peace as Christians are part of the fabric of society, often acting as bridge-builders between other communities.

8 posted on 09/07/2015 7:20:40 PM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: naturalman1975

So he’ll be strapping on a uniform and demanding a Declaration of War when exactly?

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9 posted on 09/07/2015 7:23:26 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: naturalman1975

I had read a few years back that he was contemplating becoming a Muslim.


11 posted on 09/07/2015 7:26:25 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Tagline pending.)
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To: naturalman1975

He won’t be the first Christian caricatured by the media. I read someplace today that the Queen is worth about 30 billion dollars. I assume he’ll get that if he doesn’t die before his mom, who seems to be doing great at eighty-eight.

I hope you are correct. Honestly, though, I don’t put any confidence in that Anglican Church at all. Hopefully, he supplements his Christianity elsewhere.


15 posted on 09/07/2015 7:36:29 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True Supporters of our Troops PRAY for their Victory!)
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To: naturalman1975

It’s not the liberal media that’s been giving us that impression. Its HRH himself.


32 posted on 09/07/2015 8:38:05 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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