The global war on Christians

When an excerpt starts with "That said, ... " it's helpful to go back and see what came before it.

So we are supposed to be concerned about a "war on Christians" when, in many cases, it's more about politics, ethnicity or resources as religion?

 

Exactly. There's pretty much a war on everybody globally who isn't comfortably first-world.

 

A retired army general says he has filed a court case pushing for Egypt's historic Saint Catherine's Monastery to be demolished and its Greek monks deported on the grounds that they pose a threat to national security.

In May 2012, Ahmed Ragai Attiya obtained 71 administrative orders regarding the demolition of the monastery's multiple churches, monk cells, gardens and other places of interest on the grounds, which he claims were all built in 2006 and thus not historic, according to Ihab Ramzy, the monastery's lawyer.

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"[It's] one of the oldest, continuously inhabited Christian monasteries, with a history that can be traced back over 17 centuries, and is under the supervision of Egypt's antiquities ministry and UNESCO," Ramzy said.

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Sheikh Ahmed El-Jebaly – speaking on behalf of the Jebeliya tribe which has guarded the monastery for 1400 years – denied the accusations, stressing that his tribe would never allow anyone to attack the monastery or any other place in the area.

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Saint Catherin'es Monastery was built between 548 and 565 on the site known to be the location of the burning bush, where Moses is believed to have spoken with God and been told that he was to lead the Israelites out of Egypt.

The monastery gets its name from a Christian martyr named Catherine, who according to legend was delivered by angels to monastery and then later buried there by monks after she was beheaded around the year 800.


http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/98907.aspx

 

Shootings at two Jewish centers in Kansas City today. Suspect allegedly yelled "Heil Hitler" as he was led away.

http://www.kctv5.com/story/25235053/shooting-reported-at-overland-park-jewish-community-center

 

Convenient. When the U.S. is looked at as the bad guy, Christians are to blame because it's a "Christian nation." Someone way up there recently said the country wasn't that. Somebody needs to nudge those finger-pointers and remind them of this.

 

But we're not even a Judeo-Christian nation.