The Lie of Christian Persecution

This is a huge lie.  This lie has already cost thousands of innocent people their lives.  Allowing this lie to continue will cost millions more (maybe as many as billions) people their lives in the very near future.

Unfortunately most people believe this lie.  Most people practice this lie.  Yes, even most Christians regulary practice this lie.

All lies are of Satan.  Therefore all who practice these types of lies are acting for Satan, and are against God.

I used to practice this lie too.  By posting this, I repent that former lie, and ask for God's forgiveness and cleansing.

I want to expose this lie and the evil that it causes, contributes to, or enables.

I am not the first who warns of this lie.

At Christmas, a video was released of 11 Christians who were forced to wear orange jumpsuits, then they were beheaded by Islamic Jihadist terrorists.  They died because they were Christians.  It was't just these 11 Christians who have been killed.  More than 16,000 Christians in Nigeria have been killed due to their religion in the last 3 years.

Islamic Jihad terrorists consider Christians to be worthy of death.  Similar Islamic terrorism was practiced by Mohammad (the founder of Islam), and has continued on a repeated, similar basis ever since, down through the last 1,370 years.

Most Muslims claim that Islam is a religion of peace, and that Islamic jihad terrorists misinterprit the Q'uran.

I understand that all or most Q'urans are printed or approved by a central Islamic authority.  Madras schools that teach Islam are often funded, supported, and overseen by local mosques, or these central authorities.  If there are a few verses in the Q'uran that are often misinterpreted, has there not been sufficient time passed (ie. more than 1,370 years since Mohammad) to correct these misinterpretations, add a clarifying footnote, add an Islam course in the Madras schools, and similar efforts?

Muslims continue to reassure, argue and promote this "Islam is a religion of peace" mantra for more that 1,300 years.  However, terrorism and murder continues to be done in the name of Islam.  Their assertion is clearly contradicted by the objective evidence.  Hopefully, all Muslims will soon reach a state of Cognitive Dissonance (ie.  It is a sign of insanity to continue to believe "A" when there is overwhelming quantity and quality of objective evidence proving that "A" is a lie).

Occupation under ISIS and other Islamic extremists quickly convinced the people in Syria, Iraq, and elsewhere about how much love and peace could be found under Islam.  That is why more Muslims have converted to Christianity in the last 15 years than since Islam began 1400 years ago. 

Once a Muslim converts to Christianity, they become a prime target for persecution by their family, neighbours, community, former Imam, local Warlord (ISIS or otherwise) and national government.  Some converts to Christianity are killed immediately, others are offered a choice:

• become a Muslim again, 

or

• die as a Christian.

Free choice of conversion adds to the rabid hatred of those who have always been Christians.  These life-long Christians in Islamic countries are also persecuted and killed.  Muslims want their countries to become monoblocks of 100% Muslim.

Clearly, Mohammad was a War Lord.  Mohammad's Qu'ran calls on all Muslims to jihadism, and to kill the infidels (NB:   "Infidels" is defined as all non-Muslims, including Christians).  ISIS and other Islamists have been acting as a Warlord, following Mohammad's example.

However, it isn't just Muslim jihad terrorists who are involved in this Satanic lie.

Christians, pagans, atheists, agnostics, and most others are also guilty of this lie.

This type of lie has been around for quite some time.  While it may have been described by a different title over the years, perhaps this lie and sin is as old as Adam & Eve.

More recently, Mark Twain wrote about the "lie of silent assertion" around the 1900's.

Mark Twain described how this same technique of lying was used to permit slavery to occur and continue in USA, and that slavery was only denounced after Christian Ministers of the Northern States started to speak against slavery on Sunday sermons.

Beside persecution in the Middle East, developing world, and Third World (95 countries in all) we also have the Lie Of Silent Assertion in the Bible, Christian dogma (contrast & compare different denominations), salvation, and iniquity.  All these and more are hot points of avoidance, & more lies of silent assertion today.

I do not want to be involved with any lie of silent assertion, half truths, avoidance, sugar coating, euphemisms, willful blindness, nor anything similar.

The lie of silent assertion is a passive lie, and a passive sin.  Some say:

"Ignore it, and it will go away"

However, we can be guilty of turning a blind eye to something, also called willful blindness.  If someone has a duty of due diligence, or to properly manage, steward, or protect, then wilfull blindness can be a crime or a tort, making the victim able to seek compensation.

In the Bible, Ephesians 5:11 tells us:

“Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but instead even expose them”

I have spoken up against the slaughter of Christians.  Will you do likewise?

Pew Research has shown that 95 countries in the world will persecute people for having a prohibited faith; Christianity being the most persecuted of all, more than 245 Million Christians around the world.  Approximately 75% of the world's population live under the constant threat of persecution and death from choosing a religion.

Today, every 6 minutes someone is killed for being a Christian.

It is estimated that 58% of the 7 Million refugees from Iraq and Syria are Christians, subject to persecution, torture, attack, or death.  Now is the worst time for Christian persecution since 300 AD.

Witness the evidence here:

https://htp.org

Video on Christian Persecution: Statistics & Testimonies

If you choose to ignore or procrastinate this lie, you are:

• Strengthening your sin muscle;
• Crushing the Holy Spirit within you;
• Making it more likely that you will sin, lie, or accept them in the future;
• Becoming more and more fossilized in lies and sin over time.  

There are 7 degrees of lies, you are on your way to earning your 7th Degree Black Belt in the art of lying and sin.

Remember these persecuted Christians.  End your lie of silent assertion.

Protect all those who will be persecuted next.

Remember the post-war confession first made in German in 1946 by the German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984). His poem is about the cowardice of German intellectuals and certain clergy (including, by his own admission, Niemöller himself) following the Nazis' rise to power and subsequent incremental purging of their chosen targets, group after group, as follows:

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
     Because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
     Because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
     Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

Loyalty to Jesus & Christian Persecution: Different Sides to the same Coin?

Persecution of Christians is not limited to Communist and Muslim countries, or tyrannical dictatorships.  It is happening everywhere, from Jesus Christ's lifetime to even today.  Is this sad state of affairs prophesied by Jesus?

Luke 14:25-27

And there went great multitudes with Him [Jesus], and He [Jesus] turned and said unto them, “If any man come to Me and hate not his father and mother, and wife and children, and brethren and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.  And whosoever doth not bear his cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple."

For centuries, Christians have puzzled over and been affronted by this shocking statement by Jesus.  Non-Christians who look for an easy target have used this and similar statements against Christ and Christians, rather than trying to understand the true meaning and purpose of Jesus Christ in saying this.  The puzzlement and misunderstanding continues to today (see here, here, and here).

Are we sure we understand what Jesus was trying to say?  The sentence contains a double negative.  Double negatives can be confusing, that's why double negatives are frowned upon as bad English grammar.  Perhaps Jesus meant that we must love all of our family members if we are to become a discipline of Christ?

The Greek word used here is "miseo".  Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, Word 3404 provides other possible translations for the Greek word as "...to love less..."  Is this what Jesus meant?

Poor Biblical Translation?

Did Christ actually say what is recorded in Luke 14:25-27?  

I used to think the Bible may have been in error.  Today, I know better.  Today, I know that the original Biblical manuscripts in Hebrew and Greek are 100% true and correct, inspired and protected by God down through the centuries.  However, the various translations are not protected by God, so could this be a poor translation?

As good as the King James Version is, I know of some confusing passages, where a poorly placed comma totally changes the sense, and corrupts Christian dogma when that comma was added by biblical editors trying to "improve" the Bible.

For example, see Luke 23:43 which says:

 "And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with me in paradise."

In many places elsewhere in the Bible, we are clearly told that Jesus wasn't going to be in Heaven until 3 days and 3 nights after his crucifixion, so how could both the thief and Jesus go immediately to Heaven on the same day He is crucified (ie. "Today")?  There were no commas nor capitalization in the original Biblical manuscripts in Greek; all punctuation was added at the point of translation into English.  Therefore I believe (as taught me by Biblical scholars) this passage should correctly read as follows:

And Jesus said unto him, "Verily I say unto thee today, thou shalt be with me in paradise."

Could this mandatory "hatred" (or less love than what is offered to Jesus) toward our family be merely a bad translation, bad English grammar, misunderstanding of the Greek, or poorly placed punctuation?  All that could be possible. However, this passage in Luke is remarkably similar to Matthew 10:34–37 where Jesus said:

"Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.  For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a person’s enemies will be those of his own household. Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me."

Therefore it does not appear to be a 1-off fluke nor mis-translation of Jesus.  Jesus obviously wants us to have clear "Chain of Command" and loyalities; God first, families second.

However, I'd like to propose an additional explanation.

Persecution of Christians

Could Jesus be referring to the wholesale persecution that will befall upon the Disciples of Jesus?  When the State realizes that the Disciples care not about persecution of themselves, the State could start persecuting the family members of the Disciples so as to try forcing a Disciple to leave his faith behind.

Sad Case of Tommy Robinson

Below is an interview of Tommy Robinson of England.  Tommy was a plumber who woke up when he learned of Rochdale Child Sex Abuse Ring (ie. a secret Muslim gang of men in England that were profiling and recruiting more than 1,000 young English girls, as young as 11 years old, for brutal rape, kidnapping by these Muslim men during multiple years), and other problems caused or contributed by Muslim immigration into the UK.  The government knew or suspected the Rochdale Sex Ring crimes were ongoing, but did little to nothing to stop it; mainly because the government was afraid of the backlash against the British Muslim community.  Tommy Robinson however, wasn't willing to be silent.  He became involved in a big way.

I don't endorse what Tommy Robinson and others did, but I bring to your attention what Tommy Robinson reports in this interview that the UK government did to him and all his family members surrounding him (ie. Tommy, his pregnant wife, Tommy's parents, Tommy's brother-in-law, Tommy's cousins, Tommy's friends, etc) so as to coerce Tommy from his political activism.  I have no way of knowing if any or all of Tommy's allegations against the UK government's coercion against Tommy are true.  However, if these allegations are even somewhat true, and Tommy's story becomes well known, who would be willing to follow in Tommy's footsteps and subject all of their family members with government persecution?

I would suggest that only if someone hated their family and friends would they subject themselves and persecution by the unlimited powers of a misguided, unjust State.

When Brittany Pettibone, a US citizen who is an independent YouTube reporter, tried to enter the UK for doing an interview of Tommy Robinson, she was banned from entry to UK, was imprisoned for 3 days, and then evicted from UK. Tommy Robinson subsequently met Brittany in Vienna to do this interview.

Are you fully prepared to give up everything for Jesus Christ?  As strong willed as Tommy Robinson is, he eventually caved in to persecution of him and his family by the UK government.  Will the Devil even better at persecution of Christians than the UK government was towards Tommy?

Jesus says He will be there in our moment of truth, but no doubt there will be much refining and dross that we will have to lose in this refining and purifying process to prepare us all for Heaven. 

Watch the video, and decide where, if it had been you instead of Tommy, and the persecution was about your faith in Jesus, you would have caved in, submitted, and taken the Mark of the Beast.