Posted on 11/16/2025 5:29:35 AM PST by MtnClimber
The story of Christianity, from its birth in persecution to its global witness today, is one of triumph through suffering. The Church was conceived in martyrdom and strengthened by the blood of those who refused to deny Christ. Across two millennia, it has known both glory and exile, power and abasement. Yet its endurance has never rested on wealth or empire but on the courage of believers who acted — who built, sheltered, defended, and bore witness in the face of mortal danger.
Today, the question of Christianity’s survival bears both the weight of history and the anguish of the present. Across the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, Christians face violence, dispossession, and the deliberate erasure of their faith. Churches are burned, families displaced, children kidnapped, and entire villages emptied. To be Christian in parts of the Muslim world is to live one’s faith under siege. In the secularized West, the threat is different but no less grave: the slow amnesia of God, the polite apostasy of comfort. The Church thus confronts a double peril — annihilation by the sword and corrosion by neglect.
From the seventh century onward, Arab-Islamic conquests reshaped the religious landscape of the Old World. Lands that had been vibrant centers of Christianity — Syria, Egypt, North Africa, and later Asia Minor — fell under Muslim rule. Christians endured centuries as “dhimmis,” tolerated yet subordinated, their survival purchased through tribute and silence. Over time, conversion, migration, and persecution reduced once-flourishing Churches to remnants. The vast Church of the East (i.e., the Nestorian Church), which stretched from Antioch to China, was nearly extinguished. By the twentieth century, only scattered enclaves remained, living relics of the faith’s earliest centuries.
This tragic decline is put down to savage warfare, genocidal-scale massacres, and deculturation.
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Those inviting muslims into their countries seem to be trying to destroy Christianity.
New York, Dallas, Houston
Those who invite this savage Muslim world into formerly Christian Europe and America already destroyed Christianity by ignoring and then refusing it. The invitation of Muslims is pretense of higher moral authority.
The Left seems willing to throw them all to the wolves. And we know who the wolves are. There are genocides in Africa right now that they refuse to even recognize.
Along with Denver, Minneapolis, Los Angeles and every other blue run city.
Tagline.
Tucker: [Bonhoeffer] reach[ed] the end of reason, or even Christianity. Bonhoeffer decided that Christianity's not even -- he was a Lutheran pastor -- Christianity's not enough, we have to kill the guy [Hitler]. I'm not judging Bonhoeffer, who was a great man in some ways. But that's inevitable once we decide that some people are Nazis.
Certainly not this pope. Certainly not the “Protestants” in Europe who marry 4 homosexuals in one big mess. Certainly not Anglicans who gave up their churches for mosques. Certainly not Europe which submitted to Islam.
If I had to guess now? The Hindus and Sikh. Maybe even the Chinese to protect their economic interests. This pope is too busy partying with celebrities to worry about his flock being massacred.
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