Int’l Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church
November 8 is the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church.
Let me start off by saying, quite clearly and without any waffling: people being killed, denied jobs or housing, imprisoned, taken from their families, or otherwise abused simply because of what they believe, is WRONG! I don’t care who it is, I don’t care what the national rule is. Abusing someone merely for belief (however ridiculous and morally corrupt that belief might be) is wrong.
But, I have to also say that in much of the West, and especially here in the United States, it is the Christians who are the persecutors. Throughout our country, even today, Christians are organized and actively persecuting others. They have the mistaken idea that it is okay to deny access to gays, atheists, and people of other religions when it comes to jobs, housing, adoptions, and other things.
I have to say that I’m a bit befuddled that Christians would be asked to pray for other persecuted Christians while at the same time NOT speaking up against those Christians who are actively persecuting others here in this country. Does this not seem rather hypocritical? I say let the Christians stop persecuting others before they have a right to ask consideration for those being persecuted.
Of course it’s hypocritical! That’s exactly why many of those Christians are trying to play a semantic game to hide the fact that they’re persecuting others?
Take the National Organization for Marriage’s talking points, for example. They make it clear that none of their supporters should explicitly state that they oppose same sex marriage. They make it clear that this is because they’ve found that such an honest statement causes them to lose support. Instead, they recommend that their supporters talk about “supporting traditional marriage” or “opposing the redefinition of marriage.” It’s all a word game to them to hide their true aims.
I’ll also point to the cottage industry here in the states of Christians trying to paint themselves as martyrs. Whether you’re talking about PFOX, Maggie Gallagher, Ben Stein and those who helped him make “Expelled,” or Cindy Preejan, they’re all about trying to make it clear that they’re the real people being “persecuted.” Granted, you have to twist every aspect of logic into a pretzel to buy it, but there you have it.
But then again, when you look at their actions, you find that in the end, most of them really just want “religious freedom” for the “one true religion”: their own. All those “false religions” can get toasted, for all they care. Look at the guy who burned the Muslim prayer rug.
November 8th, 2009 at 3:22 pm