Posted on 05/19/2022 5:59:31 PM PDT by marshmallow
“The rules of political correctness enforced on modern Western society are broadly incongruent with the teachings of the Bible”, Metropolitan Hilarion, Head of the ROC Department for External Church Relations, observed in his interview with the Russia 24 TV Channel. The Metropolitan was referring to the case of Finnish MP Päivi Räsänen, a physician and a mother of five in Finland, who was sent to trial on accusations of inciting hatred by quoting the Bible.
The case created a disturbing precedent, though Päivi Räsänenwas was eventually acquitted of all charges.
Päivi Räsänen is known as staunch defender of traditional family values. She made her point in her 2004 pamphlet “Male and Female He Created Them”, in a 2018 radio debate, and a Twitter post in 2019, in which she questioned her church’s sponsorship of an LGBT pride event. She asked how this kind of support was compatible with the Bible, linking to a photograph of a biblical passage, Romans 1:24-27, on Instagram.
Police began investigating Räsänen in 2019. The Prosecutor general argued that her statements were “likely to cause intolerance, contempt, and hatred towards homosexuals.” The 62-year-old Räsänen was charged with incitement against a minority group. She faced several years in prison.
The Russian Orthodox Church followed the case closely. “If quoting the Bible is considered a crime in Finland, what kind of time are we living in now?” Metropolitan Hilarion said. Some Protestant denominations have fallen for the spirit of the times and opted for revision of the Bible's moral standards, declaring the “admissibility” of same-sex partnership, or even introducing a certain ritual of “blessing” these unions.
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Because God Almighty isn’t politically correct, last time I checked.
Keep in mind this is the same church that rubber-stamps the Russian aggression in Ukraine. “By their fruits you shall know them”.
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Zelensky here is clearly not a Godly man, but is a sick pervert, and with him playing the piano with his pecker, and other instances involving him, he is sick in the head:
“By their fruits shall ye know them” and Zelensky needs Jesus.
And lots of churches rubber-stamped the war in Iraq and the U.S. has largely abandoned traditional values, adopted homo marriage, and went the way of Sodom.
Catholic Church overrules the bible every day
That’s why the doctrine of Sola Scriptura is so essential.
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