Different or Indifferent

#1778

With hundreds of thousands more migrants set to pour into Sweden, a Bishop in Stockholm has proposed removing crosses from a Christian church and replacing them with Islamic symbols in order to cater for Muslims.

Bishop Eva Brunne wants to remove Christian symbols from the Seamen’s Church to make the building “more inviting” for Muslims, reports SVT, Sweden’s national public TV broadcaster.
“Leasing a room to people of other faiths, does not mean that we are not defenders of our own faith. Priests are called to proclaim Christ. We do that every day and in every meeting with people. But that does not mean that we are hostile toward people of other faiths,” wrote Brunne, attempting to justify the plan.

Brunne, who is the first openly lesbian bishop of a mainstream church in the world, wants the church to be treated more like a public airport, where prayer rooms are made available to Muslims, by removing Christian symbols and “marking the direction of Mecca.”

The proposal has drawn backlash, with Patrik Pettersson, priest of the Oscars parish in Stockholm, arguing, “The church chapel can not reasonably be equated with prayer rooms at airports and hospitals. The Christian church and chapels are not just any public areas.”

The Seamen’s Church Director, Kiki Wetterberg, also publicly opposed the idea.
“I have no problem with Muslim or Hindu sailors coming here to pray. But I believe that we are a Christian church, so we should keep the symbols. If I visit a mosque I do not ask them to take down their symbols. It’s my choice to go in there,” said Wetterberg.

It’s also ironic to consider that while Brunne is insistent on being so welcoming to Muslims, she would be executed for being a lesbian in some Islamic countries.
“This is what a society and culture in the midst of suicide looks like,” writes Robert Spencer.
If you think this story sounds too bizarre to be true, then you haven’t acquainted yourself with the progressive “utopia” that is Sweden.

This is a country in which some politicians have called for giving free housing, jobs and welfare to returning ISIS jihadists – all at taxpayer expense.
This is a country that is suffering a major housing shortage yet simultaneously has politicians telling its citizens that they may need to give up their garages in order to house third world immigrants.
Sweden is also a country that hires ISIS-sympathizers to run its immigration boards. The country’s taxpayer-funded “expert” on Islamophobia, Michael Nikolai Skråmo, also went on to join ISIS.
Watch the interview below in which a Bosnian immigrant to Sweden explains the disastrous results of the country’s open door border policy.

The guidelines published by CoExist House, a US and UK-based interfaith group, recommend an outright ban of pork products from office kitchens to avoid “offending” employees of the Muslim and Jewish faiths. “It would be good etiquette to avoid heating up foods that might be prohibited for people of other faiths,” said Andy Dinham, a University of London professor who wrote the guidelines for CoExist House. “We also say, ‘Don’t put kosher or halal and other… special foods next to another [food] or, God forbid, on the same plate.”

The guidelines come as both the U.S. and the U.K. open their borders to a record number of Muslim migrants.  Other European countries, such as Sweden and Germany, have practically mutilated their own cultures to appease the new arrivals.  Similarly, German public schools were ordering teenage girls to not wear mini-skirts or shorts that Muslim migrants find “offensive.”  German Chancellor Angela Merkel is also working with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to censor social media posts critical of “the wave of Syrian refugees entering Germany.”  This despite the fact that only one out of every five Muslim migrants claiming asylum in Europe is from Syria.

“The EU logged 213,000 arrivals in April, May and June but only 44,000 of them were fleeing the Syrian civil war,” the Daily Mail reported.  An influential Iman Sheikh, Muhammad Ayed, encouraged Muslims to use the migrant crisis to breed with European citizens and “conquer their countries.”

“Europe has become old and decrepit and needs human reinforcement… they are not motivated by compassion for the Levant, its people and its refugees,” he said. “Soon, we will trample them underfoot, Allah willing.”

In this writer's long life, believers and non-believers, pretenders and antagonists;  I have found that it is almost impossible to tell the difference.  God will sort this out, he knows, he cares.  And just as I believe he has enough spare mercy to take care of my own hipocracy I hope he will care for my fellow man... even some "make believe" preachers, such as the lesbian above.  The one billion Catholics who believe that another man, who they call Father can forgive them of their sins, or the one billion Muslims who think that "works" such as eating pork, smoking, alcohol, naming a child Muhammad will have some effect on their salvation.  The eternal word of God is not a "joke book", it is the "manufacturer's handbook", it is the "answer book".  God means what he says, honors his word.

Christianity is not complicated, just tough.  There is no room for compromise.  I have found that most of my friends, associates, even family members desire for God to be in their image instead of them, and me, living in his image.  Christianity is fact, not feeling.  The paradox of hospitals for turtles, when at the same time "planned parenthood" killing and selling tissues of aborted babies must make God cringe.  "Man plans, God laughs."  Do we really believe that we will escape the wrath of God?

This sightless writer, mostly home bound but, one immutable fact if you choose to call yourself a Christian, bear the name of Christ you cannot help but be different AND, you must be able to recognize the plight of those who are indifferent.

Just as I am dictating this article to someone, one weekend I had a 6th grade teacher taking dictation from me.  I said to her, "you are in the education system, you are out in the world of people, do any of your friends, parents of your schoolchildren, fellow professionals have any concern at all about the future of my country, the country for which I have given my eyesight?"  She said, "Everyone I know, every person with whom I come in contact, completely indifferent."