{"id":446,"date":"2011-04-06T14:15:28","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T18:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/on_the_front_lines_of_the_culture_wars\/?p=446"},"modified":"2011-04-08T14:02:23","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T18:02:23","slug":"british-columnist-worried-christianity-becoming-criminalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/on_the_front_lines_of_the_culture_wars\/2011\/04\/british-columnist-worried-christianity-becoming-criminalized.html","title":{"rendered":"British columnist worried Christianity becoming criminalized"},"content":{"rendered":"

London Daily Mail<\/em> columnist Melanie Phillips\u00a0wrote that she was\u00a0worried that Christianity is being suppressed, even criminalized.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow long will it be before Christianity becomes illegal in Britain?\u201d she asked readers. \u201cThis is no longer the utterly absurd and offensive question that on first blush it would appear to be.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn evangelical Christian campaigner, Stephen Green, was arrested and charged with using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behavior. So what was this behavior? Merely trying peacefully to hand out leaflets at a gay rally in Cardiff. So what was printed on those leaflets that was so threatening, abusive or insulting that it attracted the full force of the law?<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u201cWhy, none other than the majestic words of the 1611 King James Bible. The problem was that they were those bits of the Bible which forbid homosexuality.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe leaflets also urged homosexuals to \u2018turn from your sins and you will be saved.\u2019 But to the secular priests of the human rights culture, the only sin is to say that homosexuality is a sin.<\/p>\n

\u201cAdmittedly, Mr. Green is not everyone\u2019s cup of tea. Other Christians regard him as extreme. But our society is now so upside-down that, by doing nothing more than upholding a fundamental tenet of Christianity, he was treated like a criminal. Yet at the same time, the police are still studiously refusing to act against Islamic zealots abusing British freedom to preach hatred and incitement against the West.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Bible is the moral code that underpins our civilization. Yet the logic of the police action against Mr. Green surely leads ultimately to the inescapable conclusion that the Bible itself is \u2018hate speech\u2019 and must be banned. Christianity is fast becoming the creed that dare not speak its name. It is being written out of the national script by ideologues seeking to hasten its disappearance.\u201d<\/p>\n

She concluded that the same process destroying Christian liberties in England \u201cwill destroy the liberties that all English people enjoy, which derive from Christianity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe truth is that it is a common article of faith in virtually all major religions that God guides the footsteps of each and every human being,\u201d writes journalist Ben Shapiro. \u201cBenjamin Franklin, a not-so-religious theologian, said that the American Revolution could be successful only with the direct help of God. As he put it, \u2018The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth \u2013 that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cYet nowadays, it is considered trite to point to the influence of God in human lives.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the media elites are wrong \u2013 if God is indeed a driving factor in history,\u201d writes Shapiro, \u201cthen things may not go as the media elites plan. In the liberal view, no divine presence can be directing things. For the left, the only gods behind history are the gods of economics or multiculturalism or environment.”<\/p>\n

And that is the road to destruction.<\/p>\n

What do you think?<\/p>\n

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