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To: metmom; Kolokotronis; 1000 silverlings; Alex Murphy; bkaycee; blue-duncan; boatbums; caww
Then they have no reason to be arresting anyone for "proselytizing"

Do you know their laws? Do you know why they are being arrested, (if they are being arrested!)?

Big deal. Being *religious* means nothing. Lots of people are *religious* and it doesn't get them anywhere because it's not faith in Christ

Greeks are 99% Christian.

people trust in it and feel good about themselves, lulling them into a false sense of security by causing them to think they're actually doing something productive in regard to their afterlife

The same can be said about Christians. Have you been to "afterlife"?

Greek [sic] is the most highly *religious* country in Europe with its religious beliefs intertwined with its society, like Judaism, and yet they manage to divorce it completely from politics, but still arrest someone one for *proselytizing*.

Who said they completely divorce it from politics? We don't, why should they? Again, you are saying they are arresting posleyutizers (examples please), but don;t mention on what charges. Israel arrests missionaries too when they break Israeli laws and nobody in the Protestant community says about it.

Again, there is no one to "proselytize" to in Greece. They are 99% Christian. The Protestant missionaries need to go where the population and the culture is not Christian.

2 Timothy 3:1-7 But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

Oy, not again! In "last days"? Paul believed Jesus was coming back real soon. Guess what, he was wrong! If he was wrong on that, why should he be right on anything else?

Also, when was there time when people were not lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy?

This is the perfect example of what a Catholic influenced country is like in regard to freedom of religion

LOL! Catholic-influenced? Greece?

and what a Protestant influenced country like the US is like in regard to freedom of religion

Can you show me where in the Greek Constitution it says there is no freedom of religion?

Predominantly Catholic countries have very little religious freedom. Predominantly Protestant countries do

I hope you don't represent an average Protestant. If you did, I think that would be very troubling. Austria is a predominantly Catholic, so is France, Spain, Poland, Italy, Ireland, Malta, etc.

6,639 posted on 01/04/2011 9:38:31 AM PST by kosta50 (God is tired of repenting -- Jeremiah 15:6, KJV)
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a predominantly Catholic=a predominantly Catholic country.
6,640 posted on 01/04/2011 9:39:46 AM PST by kosta50 (God is tired of repenting -- Jeremiah 15:6, KJV)
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