Posted on 12/30/2001 6:14:13 PM PST by Justin Raimondo
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:49:49 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The mob arrived armed with knives and clubs while Rev. Joy Punnose addressed the 120 missionaries gathered in the small town of Dohad in northern Gujarat, an Indian state where Christians have become almost daily targets for Hindu mobs.
The kicks, punches and slaps that followed were not unusual in the northern part of this country, the so-called Hindu belt, where dozens of Christian churches went up in smoke this year, an Australian missionary and his two sons were burned alive, another priest was beaten to death, nuns have been gang-raped, congregations terrorized and priests made to walk naked through village streets.
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Wall Street Journal 9/2/98 Clifford Alexander "When he's in trouble, and even when he's not, Bill Clinton is known to play fast and furious with issues of race. He did it again last Friday in Martha's Vineyard, Mass., in a speech commemorating the 35th anniversary of the civil rights March on Washington. Mr. Clinton said the following: "Most of us who are old enough remember exactly where we were on Aug. 28, 1963. I was in my living room in Hot Springs, Ark. I remember the chair I was sitting in; I remember exactly where it was in the room; I remember exactly the position of the chair when I sat and watched on national television the great March on Washington unfold. I remember weeping uncontrollably during Martin Luther King's speech, and I remember thinking when it was over, my country would never be the same and neither would I." So spoke the man who in January could not remember whether he had been alone with Monica Lewinsky a few weeks earlier. And it wasn't the first time Mr. Clinton had suspiciously vivid memories on matters concerning race in America. On an earlier occasion he gravely told the nation of his vivid memory of church burnings in Arkansas when he was growing up. Journalists' inquiries revealed that there were no church burnings in Arkansas during Mr. Clinton's early years.. In his Martha's Vineyard speech he even compared himself to Nelson Mandela and Dr. King.."
The American Spectator 5/00 Mark Steyn “…… One typical March weekend in Brooklyn: Vandals smash the face and arms of a marble shrine to Our Lady of Fatima at St. Gregory's Rornan Catholic Church. The same night, a wooden image of Christ is torn down from the cross and broken into pieces at St. Francis of Assisi-St. Blaise Church. For parishioners at St. Francis, it was the second assault on their church in little more than two months: In January, the statues of both Francis and Our Lady of Fatima were decapitated. But so what? This kind of thing is becoming routine. A dozen Catholic churches have been desecrated in Brooklyn in the last six months - though, in a belated attempt at ecumenicalisrn, in the last week of March an Episcopal church was targeted, too. The media, happy to hop on Jesse Jackson's and Bill Clinton's bandwagon and be taken for a ride about an entirely mythical spate of black church burnings a couple of years back, are largely indifferent to the actual, real assaults on churches which occur every day ..”
Any suspects? Any theories about why this is happening?
Nice catch; and thank you.
But don't hold your breath waiting for Justin Raimondo to cry for them.
Why?
Could it be because their murderers are MUSLIM?
Oh, c'mon Montag, you don't think he's biased, do you?
It's wonderful if in fact it is true.
Then you won't get to God. That is your choice which I respect as it is your free will to do so.
Let me ask of you just one question. What religion is the only religion that does not require works to get to the goal?
"My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:" John 10:27
"Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it." John 8:44
Although you repudiate Jesus Christ and his message, in a back-handed manner you show him more honor than do liberal Christians who teach the lie that he was tolerant in the way they are tolerant.
You have correctly discerned that Jesus Christ was anything but wishy-washy, feckless, equivocal, and compromising. Now, if you possessed spiritual wisdom and insight you would see and understand that Jesus Christ's ethics--especially on this point--surpass anything any man has ever taught or lived. There is deeper wisdom here than you know or can know. I pray that perhaps someday you will.
What planet are we talking about here?
And what do you know of Hindu fundamentalism?
Planet earth.
Now instead of asking silly questions, why don't you try to refute me?
Give me one example, even from our worst enemies from other religions--e.g., Osama Bin Laden, the Taliban, Al Qaeda, or from extreme Hindu fundamentalists such as former BJP Indian Prime Minister Desai---anyone from the other major religions--who claims that Christianity is an evil religion.
You can't. Because they don't say that.
They say that America is evil and that Americans are evil, or that they have an evil government. But they do not condemn the religion of Christianity--unlike Christians, who condemn every other religion as evil.
I challenge you to find one example to disprove my point.
That would be a contribution to this discussion. So far you have contributed nothing at all except incredulity. Don't just say an idea is ridiculous. Say why.
I see you haven't read the Vedas. Not quite as bad as the Koran, I admit, but they're not about peace and love, I'll tell you that much.
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