I am glad that people care about Kim Davis. But it makes me sad to see so many people read this string, yet so few stopped to pray for those being persecuted, as listed in this forum. This string has over 100 views. The strings for persecuted Christians get way less views than that. What Kim Davis is going through is a picnic in the park compared to what those others are suffering. People in other countries are just as loved by Messiah as those in this country. But do we love them as much?
I think what many people miss is that the horrific persecution and even execution of Christians in other countries, started with the kind of abuses we see Christians in America suffering now. So just because atheists aren't lopping the heads off Baptists yet, doesn't mean verbal abuse, threats against free exercise, isn't happening. And isn't perilous as a threat at that level so as to escalate to far worse later on.
Because when oppression is excused as it often is by those who make the feeble argument, well , it's not that bad and they're not suffering like other Christians are elsewhere and who are being killed, that's how the oppressors gain ground. Indifference touted by those not affected. Dismissal of the impact of such trespasses by those who argue they are benign and no real threat at all in comparison to....
Peoples indifference, some peoples pleasure even in watching what anti-Christian proponents claim is Christian privilege, being imperiled are what motivate the agenda that wants to quash the Christian religion entirely. But it has to start somewhere and it has to seemingly be benign in order to grow into the chronic level of threat. And what motivates that growth are those who disparage Christians and argue that for far too long they've enjoyed a privilege not entitled them and therefore need to be taken down a notch. And it is those type arguments in any form that give rise to the evolution of the oppression growing in strength and scope.
For instance, we teach our children in school all about the Constitution. The Bill of Rights. Then at graduation prior to, the ACLU and the FFRF meet with the principle of the school and forewarn him or her about the upcoming commencement speeches. And how there better not be any mention of God in them by students or else.....
In effect, those groups are hoping to teach our children that the Bill of Rights stops at the podium at graduation if they have it in their mind to thank God when they graduated Summa Cum Laude.
But that's OK, some will argue, because of the separation clause in the Constitution.
No, it is not OK. And that clause has not one iota of relevance in that graduation ceremony. That individual student and citizen of the United States of America is practicing the free exercise of their right to speak freely and invoke their religious freedom in thanking the deity of their choice for assistance in causing them to achieve that award.And it is perfectly allowed.
In fact, threatening that student to stand mute in that regard, is a legal offense that can have the ACLU and the FFRF on the receiving end of the lawsuits they thought they'd threaten the school with if the school didn't censor the students. Students who being they are graduating are no longer under the authority of that school. And that school cannot withhold their graduation certificate for non-compliance to the order to refrain from giving thanks to God.
Most will notice it is the Christian's God that is the foremost concern of the ACLU and the FFRF.
Should that school withhold that graduation certificate because the student defied an illegal order to refrain from thanking God during their commencement speech, that's another lawsuit.
What bolsters groups like the ACLU and the FFRF is money. They imagine those they target don't have the deep pockets the ACLU and the FFRF have in order to fight for their civil rights.
And that is how the greater oppression starts and began in those countries where today Christians are martyred in death by rich governments who know their targets are afraid or poor and are unable to afford to fight against what is now a full blown terrorist assault on their religious liberties. But it started out by taking the little rights and freedoms first. And when no resistance was able to be mustered against that, the restrictions grew.
This is why it is imperative no Christian, or anyone of faith for that matter, resign themselves to the propaganda that tells them their rights are being trespassed upon because it is necessary, it is legal, it isn't that bad, it's for the common good, it's because they offend others not of the same mind set, or any other reason there is given that thinks to convince a people that those inalienable guarantees in the , and the words here are key, BILL OF RIGHTS, are revocable on whim of those opposed.
And a for instance starts when the term Martyr is made to appear less than what it is, so as to imply to those unaware that until someone is killed they do not qualify as such. Misrepresentation and obfuscation of the facts is another inroad , another tactic, of those who are intent on stealing your religious liberties in small increments at first. Evidenced when they fail to post the full truth of the definition of Martyr!
martyr
[mahr-ter]
noun
1.a person who willingly suffers death rather than renounce his or her religion.
2.a person who is put to death or endures great suffering on behalf of any belief, principle, or cause:
a martyr to the cause of social justice.
3.a person who undergoes severe or constant suffering:
a martyr to severe headaches.
4.a person who seeks sympathy or attention by feigning or exaggerating pain, deprivation, etc.
verb (used with object)
5.to make a martyr of, especially by putting to death.
6.to torment or torture.
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God be with the Christians in America.
