The recent referendum was not a triumph of Egypt’s nascent democracy — which is the way it was played in the media — but a rigged enterprise designed to give the advantage to the Muslim Brotherhood. The Ikhwan is the only political force that is well-organized and ruthless enough to fill the current power vacuum, provided that elections are held quickly. Thanks to the referendum scam, Egyptians will vote in September, which should be soon enough for the Brotherhood’s purposes.
Egyptian Copts understand very well that “democracy” in Egypt does not bode well for the Christian minority. The majority of Egyptians favor sharia, which means that Christians are likely to face persecution — democratic persecution.
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The head of the bible society needs HIS head examined. His last statement that when Christians are "under duress the Gospel will flourish" and "if we get the freedom we are yearning for the faith will weaken." Wow!
So, why don't we just torture every Christian in Egypt? That will REALLY strengthen the faith. Let's start with him.
The Copts in Egypt live in garbage piles. They have their churches bombed and burned, their priests shot their followers beaten and murdered and their daughters kidnapped. This man is sick. If this man speaks for the Copt community they are in deep deep trouble. I am surprised that CBN ran this clip without rebuttal to his statement.
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The Ikhwan is the only political force that is well-organized and ruthless enough to fill the current power vacuum, provided that elections are held quickly.
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Most people who have studied democracy in any Western sense know that ruthlessness and democracy cannot co-exist.
Democracy is not the result of ruthlessness either.
You can't be ruthless one day and democratic and tolerant the next.
This is a tyranny of the minority, if the MB wins big.
A tyranny of the majority if they don't.
But either way, it will be tyranny, not democracy in any way I would define it.
He wasn't saying this as though it were a happy thing, Babs, but from an historical and truthful assessment of what it will take for Christianity to flourish. Christianity has grown considerably in Iran, in spite of intense persecution. Christianity has increased by the tens of thousands in Algeria, after the Salafist Army slaughters of entire villages began...especially among the Berbers, who resent the crushing Arabization of their culture. He is speaking a profound and ageless truth about the spread of Christianity in history, from Greece, Rome and beyond.
Look at Europe, where the culture is no longer Christian, and churches are empty. No one is holding a gun to anyone's head and being told to renounce Christ. They've gone and done that freely, and now that they stand for nothing, they fall for everything.
Jewel, you beat me to it and you said it better than I could have.
This man does not need his head examined, he is perfectly sane and he is showing amazing courage in the face of extreme trials ahead. It's just that in the comfortable West we have forgotten what this kind of courage under duress looks and sounds like!
God bless him and his compatriots!
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Look at Europe, where the culture is no longer Christian, and churches are empty. No one is holding a gun to anyone's head and being told to renounce Christ. They've gone and done that freely, and now that they stand for nothing, they fall for everything.
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True words!
I commend you indeed!
Sorry, I happen to disagree. You do not have to live in fear of death or live in a garbage pile to love Christ. Christianity has faded in the west due to creeping government socialism taking the place of religion.
Anyone that invites strife in order to promote religion is not my friend.
"Christianity has faded in the West" For lack of interest. There is precedence for persecution making it more compelling
Babs, persecution is the great sifter, separating the true believer from the chaff. Persecution, as has been promised in the scriptures, purifies our faith. Makes us focused on not just how we live but how we die, as well. We essentially have said the same thing about Christianity fading in the west. By choice. The people have chosen Baal to provide over God. There isn't persecution here now, at least not like there is in the rest of the dark and weary world, but there will be. For certain. Then you will be required to choose.
In America, we have had a bilious fraudulent 'gospel' preached from our televisions and radios and pulpits for the last 40 years, promising health, wealth and prosperity and happiness for those who have enough faith and who send in the right 'love offering'.
Now that hard times are upon us, we have to look over the smoldering ruins of this evil ideology and reject it. It might just require desperate poverty and hatred to purge that long-festering evil from our churches.
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