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“If We Stay Quiet They Crush Us”

Rich2018 said:
I did

Would you not agree that ambracing all forms of human diversity and strong gun control are two very appealing reasons for living in California...though countered somewhat by the high p[rice of gasoline.
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No.

That is a nice platitude, but not an intelligent manner of addressing reality.

Definition for Diversity. The concept of diversity encompasses acceptance and respect. It means understanding that each individual is unique, and recognizing our individual differences. ... Understanding and appreciating interdependence of humanity, cultures, and the natural environment.

There are individuals and groups whose diversity includes their desire for race supremacy...surely you dont respect that, right? Or jihadi terrorists, you embrace that do you? Do you agree that those oh so many mentally ill, across the broad spectrum of all groups, would you respect their diversity when alloting gun ownership?

Are we still so sure of that junk formulation?
 
Logicman said:
I don't. I bailed out of that left wing sewer a long time ago.
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Good call... what a dump of a State... (at least anywhere relatively near any of the population centers)
 
Cuban Christian Man Jailed After Police Confiscate Bibles, Told ‘Our God Is Fidel Castro’
https://www.christianpost.com/news/...e-bibles-told-our-god-is-fidel-castro-215136/

By Samuel Smith, CP Reporter, Jan 256, 2018

Details have emerged about the arrest and imprisonment of a Cuban Christian rights activist who was sentenced to three and-a-half years in prison late last year after authorities raided his home and confiscated Bibles and crucifixes.

Misael Diaz Paseiro, a dissident who is a member of the Orlando Zapata Tamayo Civic Resistance Front, was arrested in November and charged with "pre-criminal social dangerousness" by the Communist government, according to the watchdog NGO Christian Solidarity Worldwide.

Paseiro's arrest came after state security agents raided his home on Oct. 22 and confiscated two Bibles, several crucifixes and five rosaries. According to CSW, it was on Nov. 4 that Paseiro was beaten by "political police."
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Well their God Fidel Castro is dead. But still they worship and follow his evil actions. Castro tried for decades to do away with religion in Cuba. But the church in Cuba has not only survived, it has grown do to church leaders persistence and missionary hard work.
 
FORB DEFENDER DETAINED AND CHURCHES HARASSED
FoRB Defender Detained and Churches Harassed - Christian Solidarity Worldwide

2 Mar 2018

A prominent Cuban advocate for freedom of religion or belief (FoRB), Leonardo Rodríguez Alonso, was detained on 28 February in Villa Clara, and is being held without charge in the Provincial Unit for Investigations in the city of Santa Clara.

Rodriguez Alonso is a regional coordinator for the Patmos Institute, an independent civil society organization that promotes inter-religious dialogue and FoRB for all. He was arrested on his way home from the town of Caibarién, where he was leading meetings with human rights defenders who were discussing responses to a series of FoRB violations affecting Apostolic Movement churches in central and eastern Cuba.

According to Reverend Mario Felix Lleonart Barroso, a founder of the Patmos Institute, Captain Erick Francis Aquino Year, the regional Head of Confrontation (Jefe de Enfrentemiento) dealt directly with Rodríguez Alonso. Captain Aquino Year reportedly told members of Rodríguez Alonso’s family that the government considers the Patmos Institute to be a counter-revolutionary organization, and that if charges are brought against him they will be serious.
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The Castroit regime does not cease its targeting and harassment of those working on freedom of religion. CSW said “Cuba’s religious-freedom violations remained high, with the latest figures showing a general trend of steady increase.”
 
The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom in its 2017 Annual Report said "the Cuban government actively limits, controls, and monitors religious practice through a restrictive system of laws and policies, surveillance, and harassment”. Its report also accused Cuba of “short-term detentions of religious leaders, demolition of churches, and threats to confiscate churches.”
 
Christians denounce the upsurge of religious persecution in Cuba
Christians denounce the upsurge of religious persecution in Cuba

“The sustained growth of the churches unnerves the government”, Cuban Pastor Mario Félix Lleonart, says. Several evangelical leaders have been interrogated and arrested in the last months.

SOURCES Protestante Digital AUTHOR Javier Bolaños, Evangelical Focus
HAVANA 14 MARCH 2018

Leonardo Rodríguez Alonso, a religious freedom activist in Cuba, was arbitrarily detained on February 28, and released days later.
He is one of the regional coordinators for the Patmos Institute, an independent civil society organization that promotes inter-religious dialogue and freedom of religion and belief for all.

The detention was confirmed to Spanish news website Protestante Digital by Pastor Mario Félix Lleonart, general coordinator of the organization, who is in exile.
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Each time a prominent political or religious figure visited the island, many Cuban pastors are arrested or kept under surveillance. The regime Office of Attention to Religious Affairs (OAAR) represses the religious freedoms of all religious Cubans. The regime through the OAAR control all religions and try to eliminate them.
 
If Castro did one thing right it was shoving religion into the trash where it belongs.
 
The Castroit regime copied the Chinese system for religious repression. The regime State Security implement a similar system to control religious denomination through the Register of Associations of the Ministry of Justice (MINJUS) to achieve the same thing that the Chinese system and stop the growth of the religious organizations.
 
Sandokan said:
Seems that Pope Francis adopted the Liberation Theology, which was fought forcefully by Popes John Paul II and Joseph Ratzinger. He is a vocal critic of capitalism, has associated with ex-priest Leonardo Boff, a strong supporter of liberation theology left wing causes, which in an interview said, “Francis is one of us.” In 2015, Pope Francis canonized Bishop Oscar Romero, one of the main figures in the liberation theology movement. In an interview with the Spanish daily El País, he said that “Liberation Theology was a good thing for Latin America.” But Ratzinger referred to Liberation Theology as a “singular heresy” and a “fundamental threat” to the Church. No wonder Pope Francis is called the Red Pope.
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Let's remember what was going on when liberation theology became a thing. Many right wing governments in Latin America were going way beyond Fidel's repression, murdering tens of thousands of their citizens for any suspicion of leftism. My favorites were the good Catholics in Argentina. When they arrested (disappeared) a pregnant woman, they would wait for the childbirth, then kill her, often giving the kid to a childless military family, not wanting to harm the fetus. Imagine the woman thinking about that as labor began. (See the film, "The Official Story"). Top that Fidel! (FYI, I had the pleasure of meeting the "grandmothers of the disappeared," women trying to find out what happened to their daughters and the children they were bearing when disappeared.)

Liberation theology was a response to situations in various countries where a few families, I think 14 in El Salvador, maybe 20 in Guatemala, controlled the best land and used it for export crops, letting peasants starve, killing any who objected. In Argentina, an extra twist, with Jews were persecuted more than others, some being forced to kneel before crucifixes before being killed. Naturally, Reagan honored these monsters cause they were anti-commie, with a communist being, as Steinbeck said, any SOB who asked for 50 cents an hour when the pay is 45.

I'll take the Red Pope over JP II, who heroically opposed oppression in Poland, but fell silent about Argentina.

And for the record, Oscar Romero was originally a conservative bishop whose elevation worried liberals, who took issue with the military murdering people wholesale in El Salvador. That was not a liberation theology move -- Moses would have backed him up. Romero was killed the day after he called on soldiers to obey the commandments and not kill innocents. His killer, Roberto d'Abuisson, celebrated by some conservative politicians in the US, confessed and repented on his deathbed.
 
Communism and socialism can be interpreted as religions themselves. They profess atheism, another form of religion from a philosophical point of view. The change in 1992 by the Castroit regime from atheism to a lay one, was a change in name but not in practice. Totalitarian regimes repress people of faith and persecute them. They are intrinsically evil from which no good can come from.
 
Sandokan said:
Communism and socialism can be interpreted as religions themselves. They profess atheism, another form of religion from a philosophical point of view. The change in 1992 by the Castroit regime from atheism to a lay one, was a change in name but not in practice. Totalitarian regimes repress people of faith and persecute them. They are intrinsically evil from which no good can come from.
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Atheism is not a religion from any point of view.
 
zyzygy said:
Why did you bring your boring blog here?
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Boring? Well maybe to someone who believes Christianity should be banned. This is absolutely the most important and best topic I have seen on this forum to date.

The communists don't want to ban Allah from the schools because Islam is the ultimate form of liberation theology. Its humanism. There is nothing Divine about Islam. So, naturally, communists and muslims abide by the same spirit and both trees bear bad fruit.
 
Ploughboy said:
Boring? Well maybe to someone who believes Christianity should be banned. This is absolutely the most important and best topic I have seen on this forum to date.

The communists don't want to ban Allah from the schools because Islam is the ultimate form of liberation theology. Its humanism. There is nothing Divine about Islam. So, naturally, communists and muslims abide by the same spirit and both trees bear bad fruit.
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There is nothing divine about Christianity.
 
Ploughboy said:
Boring? Well maybe to someone who believes Christianity should be banned. This is absolutely the most important and best topic I have seen on this forum to date.

The communists don't want to ban Allah from the schools because Islam is the ultimate form of liberation theology. Its humanism. There is nothing Divine about Islam. So, naturally, communists and muslims abide by the same spirit and both trees bear bad fruit.
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You are obviously ignorant on this topic. Religious branches that promote any sort of theocracy are authoritarian, and authoritarianism is in direct opposition to "liber" anything.
 
zyzygy said:
There is nothing divine about Christianity.
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Well if Christianity is just another form of humanism then why do you oppose it? Why not agree with your fellow humanists? I don't see the logical point behind your comment?
 
Ploughboy said:
Well if Christianity is just another form of humanism then why do you oppose it? Why not agree with your fellow humanists? I don't see the logical point behind your comment?
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If Islam is just another form of humanism then why do you oppose it? I don't oppose Christianity.
 
<alt>doxygen said:
You are obviously ignorant on this topic. Religious branches that promote any sort of theocracy are authoritarian, and authoritarianism is in direct opposition to "liber" anything.
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Islam is the most authoritarian system in the world. Yet Islam is now openly taught in all public schools. Though communism is also extremely authoritarian. Both socialist and Islamic ideologies are the most authoritarian belief systems in the world. Christianity is authoritarian where doctrinal matters are concerned. But we don't dictate to others what they will eat, drink, say and think. We believe in free will conversions and not forced submission.

Socialists do have a movement in our country to ban all Christian charities. This movement will not gain power unless another Obama type Democrat gets elected to the White House. But the very thought of banning Christian charities is beyond logical reason. I guess when the socialist government wants it all they really mean they want all your extra money and withhold nothing back from the socialist regimes. Socialists represent greedy hands and the citizens are the piggy bank. The hands of the socialists always have their hands on the piggy bank, tipping it upside down and milking every last cent from the piggy bank until there is no money left and then the entire country goes bankrupt. There is no regulations on spending in socialism. Its $pend $pend $pend $pend! And why not? There is no one to oppose the robbery of the citizens since they are stripped of all power. So when a hurricane comes, the socialist regime will not allow Christian charities because only the government saves and all earned income from citizens is tithed to the socialist Gov't which was deified by wicked and greedy minded fools who exchanged the truth of God for a lie.

Liberation theology is, what I believe to be, an unconstitutional assault focused on Christianity. Such an evil attack on Christian churches should not be legal in a civilized nation. Marxism is a mania which derived from a deranged man who could not even manage his family and his family all died due to Karl's laziness to work for a living. All he did is write books about how to destroy modern civilization while his wife and children all starved to death. Yeah, I want to be like Karl :roll:
 
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