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Punishing Christians
Washington Times ^ | 3/31/19 | Everett Piper

Posted on 04/01/2019 3:04:18 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal

If there was any remaining doubt, this past week’s news puts it to rest. Christians are now being punished in America.

From San Francisco, California to San Antonio, Texas, the church is being persecuted. Faithful Christians — those who still believe in the Bible as their rule of faith and practice — are being harassed for simply holding to the millennia-old creeds of their faith. Devout Catholics are being blackballed from our nation’s courts. Evangelicals are being excluded from the public debate. Today, orthodox Christians are not only considered politically unpopular, but they are now dubbed morally unacceptable to even engage in local commerce.

If you’re a Christian business owner who dares give money to a charitable cause grounded in traditional morality, your company will be targeted, protested and shut down. Your restaurant will be shuttered. Your bakery will be shunned. Your flower shop will be attacked. Faithful and devout Christians are now officially considered a cultural embarrassment. They are a pariah that must be removed from the market square. They cannot be tolerated. They must be barred. Under the rainbow banner of “inclusion,” Christians are now excluded from speaking, buying or selling in the arena of public life.

Proof?

On March 22, the San Antonio City Council announced with great pride and fanfare it was officially banning Chick-fil-A from doing business in the San Antonio International Airport over what it called the fast-food chain’s “anti-LGBTQ behavior.”

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Current Events; Moral Issues; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: antichristian; bibleprophecy; christian; christianity; christianpersecution; hatingjesus; lastdays; oppression; persecution; prophecy
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Keep praying & looking up!
1 posted on 04/01/2019 3:04:18 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: Roman_War_Criminal; SkyPilot; null and void; metmom; firebrand; Maudeen

A Sign of the Times.


2 posted on 04/01/2019 3:05:18 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

If this were a localized satanic movement, we could dismiss it. But the campaign to push perversion is world-wide.

We are at the end of the Age.


3 posted on 04/01/2019 3:18:15 PM PDT by fwdude (Think about it: Blacks were made slaves in Africa, but were made free men in America.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal
I meant to say, obviously the Church has suffered persecution since its beginning but now America, once a place where it was practiced rather freely, has become spirit of antichrist in many ways since 2008.

Thank God for President Trump. Anti-New World Order, Anti-Globalist, pro-America, stops the Paris Accords and the “Iran Deal”, friend to Israel, moves the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, reaffirms Israel's right to possess the Golan Heights.

Now if we could get him to understand to not be part of dividing Israel (I hope it doesn't happen on his watch).

As you said, keep praying and keep looking up.

4 posted on 04/01/2019 3:19:17 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: fwdude

[But the campaign to push perversion is world-wide.

We are at the end of the Age.]

Indeed. Witness Spain making a man as their “beauty queen”.

The madness is world-wide indeed.


5 posted on 04/01/2019 3:20:21 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal
I'm A Christian AND I'm An American And
I Believe In Defending The Faith!

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6 posted on 04/01/2019 3:23:17 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: SaveFerris

Agreed, it’s a sign of the times. A nation that was founded on Christian principles is now persecuting that very belief system. America has now become ancient Israel/Judah.


7 posted on 04/01/2019 3:27:02 PM PDT by ducttape45 ("Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people." Proverbs 14:34)
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To: SaveFerris

Satan has tried many times over the ages to eradicate Christianity, and it’s still here and will always will be.

He hates and wants to take as many people to hell with him as possible, and it looks like he is seriously succeeding.

What it seems he hasn’t learned yet is the persecution makes the church grow and purifies it and it blows up in his face.


8 posted on 04/01/2019 3:30:45 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: ducttape45; Lera; 444Flyer; SVTCobra03; mitch5501; FES0844; Freedom56v2; Bulwyf; captmar-vell; ...

IMHO, the large last obstacle to the New World Order.

True, you’ve got places like Hungary but the U.S.A. is a huge domino. The biggest domino that needs to fall for the New World Order to succeed (no, I’m not advocating the fall of the U.S.A. btw, in case anyone asks).

I’m just saying NWO and spirit of antichrist forces are trying to take down the U.S.A. Hollywood and the media are doing a pretty good job of helping it fall, too.

IMHO, after the U.S. falls, it will be the world versus Israel.

The Antichrist will be a wonderful politician up until then; some will say “messiah-like”. And then he will declare that he is God and demand to be worshiped as God, sitting in the temple of God.

And then shall be Great Tribulation such as never was before, no nor ever shall be.


9 posted on 04/01/2019 3:32:54 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: metmom

He’ll get his 7 years. Especially his last 3.5 years.

He knows his time is growing short.


10 posted on 04/01/2019 3:33:49 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: fwdude

“We are at the end if the age”

http://patburt.com/ (a true story) Jesus didn’t give the day or the hour but suggested we look at the times. Besides no one knows when his or her last breath will be . . .be ready!


11 posted on 04/01/2019 3:47:37 PM PDT by Maudeen (JESUS . . .The United States of America's ONLY Hope)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

These persecutors will face the wrath of God one day, it won’t be a happy reunion.


12 posted on 04/01/2019 3:48:14 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: metmom

Well the gates of hell will never prevail over the Church no matter how long Christianity endures this age.

But Luke 18:8 always has me guessing based on the devil’s complete eradication of Christianity in some nations - and the falling away in all other western nations. That the longer the Lord tarries, the less faith He’ll find when He returns.

Technology alone should tell us that time is almost up.


13 posted on 04/01/2019 4:06:12 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Like Enoch, Noah, & Lot, the True Church will soon be removed & then destruction comes forth.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Liberals should be careful what they wish for..If being a Christian is bad for business,someday being pro abortion will get libs booted....


14 posted on 04/01/2019 4:07:18 PM PDT by Hambone 1934
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To: fwdude; SaveFerris

True.
Time is incredibly short IMHO. The USA is living Romans 1.

Russia & Iran’s population demographic collapse alone leaves a window of only 10-15 years MAX that Ezekiel 37/38 can happen on it’s appointed schedule.


15 posted on 04/01/2019 4:08:26 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Like Enoch, Noah, & Lot, the True Church will soon be removed & then destruction comes forth.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

All Christians and All Catholics are walking targets. But let the Holy Spirit protect you.

Convert them!!!


16 posted on 04/01/2019 4:09:58 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Fiddlstix

Great post.


17 posted on 04/01/2019 4:10:46 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation

18 posted on 04/01/2019 4:14:14 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Hi.

“Keep praying & looking up!”

Yes.

And BLOAT.

5.56mm


19 posted on 04/01/2019 4:14:57 PM PDT by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! BUILD THE WALL!)
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To: M Kehoe

;)
Amen!


20 posted on 04/01/2019 4:17:21 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Like Enoch, Noah, & Lot, the True Church will soon be removed & then destruction comes forth.)
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