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This
is the way it looks to what is seen and it certainly is very
real. But Christ is raising up His church from what is not
seen. Through His recovery and the way of the cross.
Christian
Indifference to Christian Suffering
 Christians are being persecuted all over
the world. Churches are being burned and destroyed, girls are
being raped and ancient Christian communities reaching back 2,000 years
are being obliterated. And the world yawns. Most
shockingly, many Christians in the West, worse than yawning, look away
and in some cases embrace the perpetrators and blame our allies.
This begs
the obvious question: Why do so many Christians in America and
Europe seem to not care about what is happening around the world to
their fellow disciples of Jesus? Why are we looking the other way
while the brutal murder, persecution, rape and ethnic and religious
cleansing is happening right before our eyes?
The answers
are complicated and unfortunately, don’t offer much hope for the future.
First some history:
The fact is,
Christians have never been united. Even before 1054 and the Great
Schism between Rome and Constantinople, Christians were at odds with
each other. The Schism just made it official. The
Protestant Reformation of the early 16th century further
divided “Christendom” into a multitude of fractures, ending any hope of
a united Christian Church.
While the
Eastern Roman Empire was, for centuries, holding off the oncoming
Turkish Muslim hordes, the Western Church did worse than yawn; in 1204
they irrevocably weakened the Byzantine Empire when they sacked
Constantinople on their way to the Holy Land. Much of the beauty
of Venice was the booty stolen from their fellow Christians of the
East. When Constantinople finally fell in 1453, aid did not come
from Christian Europe in spite of frantic pleas for assistance.
There have
been great moments in the history of the West, when Christians fought
together against a common foe. Most notably when the Pole Jan
Sobieski lead a heroic charge of Catholics and Protestants at Vienna in
1683 and likely saved Europe from being overrun by the Turks and
becoming Muslim. But most of the history of the West has seen
Christians at each other’s throats, one long trail of bloody wars after
another with World War I being perhaps the last light in the Christian
West going out. Perhaps Sobieski only bought us a few hundred
years before the Muslim onslaught.
And finally,
the scourge of political correctness and the influence the Left has had
on our culture is perhaps the greatest reason why we lack the will to
fight. Or even to care. We see it in Hollywood, the media,
in our politics and, of course, in our churches.
Even I, as a
non-Catholic, yearn for some kind of leadership from the Vatican.
Pope John Paul will live forever in the hearts of those who love
freedom for his courageous stance against Communism. There was
hope for Pope Benedict early on, but those hopes were quickly
squashed. When the Pope would make a statement about the
persecution of Christians in the Middle East, he would invariably
mention, the “occupation,” “two state solution” or some other canard to
blame Israel for what the Muslims are doing to Christians. To do
so is disgusting and shameful and a further blight on the Church.
May this new Pope find the courage that so many others have lacked.
When we look
to other Christian churches, the news only gets worse. American
and European main-stream protestant churches are pathetic examples of a
post-Christian world. We see a full embracing of the Palestinian
cause and an apology to their terror. They have so fallen into
the leftist mantra that they can’t see the evil before their
eyes. I liken it to western feminists saying nothing about the
plight of women under Islam; the genital mutilations, beatings, rapes
and honor killings. They don’t care about women; their cause has
nothing to do with “women’s rights.” They are pushing a political
agenda. It goes the same with much of the Western Christian
churches. We can raise all the awareness that we want, but they
just don’t care.
There is
some hope, though it is fleeting. Among the evangelicals,
Catholics, Eastern Orthodox and scattered other remnants, there are
those that still do care. And they must be awakened to move
against this great evil and injustice to their fellow followers of
Christ. In addition, we must reach out to our allies outside of
Christianity. Jews, Hindus, Buddhist and so many others are very
much victims today of Islamic terror and persecution. An alliance
must be formed.
For
Christians, any human suffering is a cry for help, whether they be
Christians or otherwise. But it is especially critical that we
heed those who are being martyred for their belief in Christ.
Differences of history, doctrine, ethnicity and nation must be set
aside. We, in the West, are in the greatest position to help, in
whatever ways that may be determined. And before we look the
other way, we need to think about when the persecution comes home, and
that time will arrive if we are to do nothing now. Who will be
left to save us?
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Comment from Erasmus Of America. I strongly agree
with this report above and think all Christians who are Christians need
to send this report all over America and let us form a common national
front to save Christianity before it is too late to save Christianity.
For Christians today comes the burning question of whether they care
about their fellow Christians or not? Christ said that we were supposed
to love our brethren in Christ like we l. The
Christians answer with silence which never won any war in history, but
only defeat. Those who agree with me, send me your email and say
"I believe like you in a united front for Christianity in America
and across the world." My website is www.fastboomamericaneconomy.com
itself for long? The
time for excuses is over in Christianity. It is time for action as the
enemies of Christianity think that Christianity is now ripe and ready
to be defeated in America and across the world
I call the lovers of Christ in
the Roman Catholic Church, the Greek Orthodox Church and associated
churches, and in serious Protestant chuches my brethren in Christ.
Where there are differences, they can be resolved by honestly governed
and intelligently based scholars of Christianity. But early
Christianity taught the greatest treason against Christ in Christianity
was schism meaning Christianity was so divided that it was incapble of
any unity as Christians and Christianity. Our enemies attack
Christianity with unity, finances, and focused goals how to win. The
Christians answer with silence which never won any war in history, but
only defeat. Those who agree with me, send me your email and say
"I believe like you in a united front for Christianity in America
and across the world." My website is www.fastboomamericaneconomy.com
My email is fastboomamericaneconomy.com@gmail.com . Let us form
our national and world front and turn the tide from defeat back to
victory for Jesus and Christianity on earth.
Yours for God and Country,
Erasmus of America (pen name for one who believes that we are supposed
to be one church for Christ, not 20,000 or more. However, we
can practice the policy of Paul written in the New Testament that
we could have room in formal Christianity for some differences of
opinion in Christianity but retain common unity over major
principles founding common support among serious Christians who love
Jesus as their Savior and Lord. "The Kingdom Of God Should Be
Defended Like Any Other Kingdom On Earth." It is time for the
Christians to arise and champion their faith on earth. As Bishop Fulton
J. Sheen predicted in the 1950's, it would be the common laity of
Christianity, not so much the formal clergy, who would save
Christianity from defeat and collapse when it counted worldwide in the
future.)
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