tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post9161623136862225220..comments2024-03-22T11:37:52.668-05:00Comments on Byzantine, Texas: Spree of church burnings in Canada continuesByzantine, TXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845681957622343484noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-60071738943194054942021-07-29T09:09:16.632-05:002021-07-29T09:09:16.632-05:00‘I am inclined to think that we had better look un...‘I am inclined to think that we had better look unflinchingly at the work we have done; like puppies, we must have ‘our noses rubbed in it’. A man, now penitent, who has once seduced and abandoned a girl and then lost sight of her, had better not avert his eyes from the crude realities of the life she may now be living. For the same reason we ought to read the psalms that curse the oppressor; read them with fear. Who knows what imprecations of the same sort have been uttered against ourselves? What prayers have Red men, and Black, and Brown and Yellow, sent up against us to their gods or sometimes to God Himself? All over the earth the White Man’s offence ‘smells to heaven’: massacres, broken treaties, theft, kidnappings, enslavement, deportation, floggings, beatings-up, rape, insult, mockery, and odious hypocrisy make up that smell.’<br /><br />- C. S. Lewis<br /><br />May God help us. Deepest Shane that a churches of people fleeing religious persecute would be caught up in this as well as many indigenous churches. It does call to mind the destruction of Orthodox Churches in Russia by baptised Orthodox Christians in 1920s. <br /><br />The discovery of graves though known for years has unleashed a very scary anger against Christianity and the Catholics churches response has not helped.Michael Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03910016378835393764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-42083880239076319272021-07-27T18:21:28.913-05:002021-07-27T18:21:28.913-05:00The US government is also conducting an investigat...The US government is also conducting an investigation of "Indian Boarding Schools" and unmarked child graves. There is at least one such school in my state. While surely in "the woke" spirit, there is real meat for repentance here. While no Orthodox were involved, it was largely a "mission" to 'Christianize', i e. make white native children. <br /><br />Since a good deal of the current Orthodox spirit is still ethnic centered Greek, Arab, Slav comes first, it is a sprit which produces meat for our repentance too Michael Baumanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03025213649848660526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-44988758369643908742021-07-26T08:46:44.278-05:002021-07-26T08:46:44.278-05:00They found graves in old cemeteries that were no l...They found graves in old cemeteries that were no longer maintained from an era before antibiotics.The Anti-Gnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04386593803225823789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-90345789090274727662021-07-26T06:42:21.261-05:002021-07-26T06:42:21.261-05:00It is a horror. There is no excuse for burning ch...It is a horror. There is no excuse for burning churches. Neither is there any excuse for Christians to not recognize that we are all created in the image and likeness of God and that we all have sinned and fallen short. Repentance is the path to salvation. <br /><br />In situations like this people are looking for justice and retribution. But as Shakespeare said "In the course of justice none of us should see salvation" Out Lord said. "I will have mercy, not sacrifice"<br /><br />That bring said the "blood libel" against the Church is a form of justice. Repentance is neither easy nor without pain especially when facing egregious acts of one's forbearers.<br /><br />Michael Baumanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03025213649848660526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-52735760838099781472021-07-25T18:51:16.496-05:002021-07-25T18:51:16.496-05:00Ongoing blood libel against the Church in Canada.Ongoing blood libel against the Church in Canada.The Anti-Gnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04386593803225823789noreply@blogger.com