"The Criminalization of Christianity in Finland January 22, 2022 | George Neumayr"
RELATED FROM: ALETEIA Finnish lawmaker [and Bishop]acquitted of hate-speech
charges for tweeting Bible verses John Burger - published on March 31,2022
Posted on 05/13/2022 11:05:02 PM PDT by balch3
In a foreshadowing of America’s future under coercive secularism, a Finnish politician and Finnish bishop will go on criminal trial next week for merely upholding historic Christian teaching on sexual morality. The trial is a telling measure of the erosion of Christianity in Europe. Juhana Pohjola, a Lutheran bishop, and Päivi Räsänen, a member of Finland’s Parliament, stand accused of an act increasingly forbidden in the de-Christianized West: quoting the Bible. “According to the nation’s top prosecutor, the two people are accused of violating the equality and dignity of LGBT people,” reports Christianity Today. Simply quoting the Bible’s condemnation of sexual immorality is now sufficient to qualify as a “hate crime” in Finland. What Christianity has always taught — hate the sin, but love the sinner — is no longer permissible in the eyes of Finnish authorities. They say that Pohjola and Räsänen are guilty of “ethnic agitation” — an absurdly vague charge they would never dream of applying to members of any other religion besides Christianity.
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Our new allies /sarc
This Finland is not the Winter War Finland.
2 Timothy 3
1 But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days.
2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,
4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God—
5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.
6 They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over gullible women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires,
7 always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.
8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these teachers oppose the truth. They are men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected.
9 But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone.
A Final Charge to Timothy
10 You, however, know all about my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance,
11 persecutions, sufferings—what kinds of things happened to me in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, the persecutions I endured. Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.
12 In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,
13 while evildoers and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
14 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it,
15 and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,
17 so that the servant of God a may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
Huh?
Calling sodomy evil is now a “hate crime” there?
Using any negative descriptions of homosexual behavior can get one fired in America. That is especially true on college campuses.
If you’re going to call faggots faggots, have to do it with multiple layers of anonymity for sure.
Isn’t it already a hate crime in America?
Calling sodomy evil is now a “hate crime” there?
Isn’t it already a hate crime in America?
I’m still praying for the welfare of Barronelle Stutzman (Arlene’s Flowers) and Jack Phillips (Masterpiece CakeShop), two brave Christians who stood up for their beliefs about the sin of homosexuality, and were financially and professionally persecuted for it.
OMG!
Covid sifted the church per John MacArthur. He should know. He has an awesome Q &A about never backing down even when threatened repeatedly with long jail times. Now, more sifting… keep it up n get rid of the unelected folks playing church.
Leftist puppets need to be taken out of government and media in a hurry. Talk radio is not even listenable anymore, over 25% of air time used to promote homo.
Amen
No but they'll still beat the Rissians. Everyone knows that Russi is a paper tiger with nukes.
"The Criminalization of Christianity in Finland January 22, 2022 | George Neumayr"
RELATED FROM: ALETEIA Finnish lawmaker [and Bishop]acquitted of hate-speech
charges for tweeting Bible verses John Burger - published on March 31,2022
but how far are we behind them?
Finland’s top prosecutor announced Friday she will appeal a unanimous court decision rejecting her allegations of “hate speech” against a Christian politician for quoting the Bible on Twitter. This means Member of Parliament Paivi Rasanen, who has already spent three years being investigated, interrogated, and prosecuted by her government, must now keep fighting in court so that Christianity stays legal in Finland, and possibly all of Europe.
Indeed. I wish more pastors had his spine.
But as you say, we are being sifted.
Who would have thought persecution would come so fast in contemporary western culture?
H.R. 5665
Not far my FRiend. Not far.
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