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Swedish bishop wants to remove crosses from church and mark direction of Mecca
Jihad Watch ^ | 10/4/2015 | Robert Spencer

Posted on 10/07/2015 5:20:09 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski

How wonderful and generous and ecumenical and multicultural this is. Watch for mosques everywhere to remove their mihrabs and install crosses so that Christians will feel comfortable praying there. This is what a society and culture in the midst of suicide looks like. Bishop Eva Brunne has proposed to remove the Christian symbols of the Seamen’s Church in Freeport to make it more inviting for visiting sailors from other religions.

The bishop wants to temporarily make the Seamen’s Church available to all, for example by marking the direction of Mecca and removing Christian symbols, as is already done in common prayer rooms at airports and in some hospital chapel.

“Making a room available for people of other faiths does not mean that we are not defenders of our own faith. Priests are called to proclaim Christ. We do that every day and in every meeting with people. But that does not mean that we are stingy toward people of other faiths,” writes Bishop Eva Brunne

The proposal has triggered protests. Patrik Pettersson, priest of the Oscars parish in Stockholm, thinks that the proposal is noteworthy and writes on his blog:

“The church chapel can not reasonably be equated with prayer rooms at airports and hospital chapels anyway. The Christian churches and chapels are not public areas at any time.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cross; islam; mecca; moreoldnews; sweden
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To: laplata

“It wouldn’t be bad if their actions and beliefs only affected themselves.”

Exactly, we’ll all being put in danger because of them. They need stopping, somehow.


21 posted on 10/07/2015 6:19:59 PM PDT by Lucy Hamilton (Lucy from Occupied Europa)
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To: Jan_Sobieski


22 posted on 10/07/2015 6:20:17 PM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: Lucy Hamilton

They need stopping, somehow.


One bright side: The Muslims will take out a whole lot of them.


23 posted on 10/07/2015 6:24:35 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Bryanw92
Decedents of Vikings in dresses with no balls
24 posted on 10/07/2015 6:32:06 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have it.)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

I suppose next he’ll insist that the Swedish Bikini Team has to wear Burkas.


25 posted on 10/07/2015 6:32:18 PM PDT by BuffaloJack (Political Correctness is Suppression of Free Speech. Thank the Commies for Political Correctness.)
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Sweden has the highest rate of rape in Europe, and virtually all of them are committed by foreigners, yet they can’t learn.

Cultural suicide is right.


26 posted on 10/07/2015 6:36:05 PM PDT by Gunpowder green
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To: Bryanw92
The affected religious organizations are not, nor have they ever been, Christian.

Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak 1 Corinthians 14:34

Humans have been erasing various absolutes in God's word for so long, they're nothing but man made social clubs.

Matthew 15:9: In vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men

27 posted on 10/07/2015 6:37:29 PM PDT by LouAvul (Freedom without responsibility is anarchy.)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

So, Sweden is looking to take the title of “biggest p*ssies in Europe” away from the French, I see.


28 posted on 10/07/2015 7:22:39 PM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: Lucy Hamilton

I’m pretty sure they are usually given the option to renounce Christ and become a sex slave. That is probably the option she will pick.


29 posted on 10/07/2015 7:34:07 PM PDT by nitzy (I don't vote for Republican'ts)
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To: Sicon

And to think this was the home of the Vikings?

Johann Hegg for President of Sweden.


30 posted on 10/07/2015 7:40:06 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Maybe she can help out the muzzies with the beheadings.


31 posted on 10/07/2015 8:17:10 PM PDT by grumpygresh (We don't have Democrats and Republicans, we have the Faustian uni-party)
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To: Bryanw92

She is a lesbian with a partner too. So what did you expect?


32 posted on 10/08/2015 12:51:35 AM PDT by bjorn14 (Woe to those who call good evil and evil good. Isaiah 5:20)
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