Seventh Day Adventists on Religious Liberty – Not So Good Samaritans
I finished my previous post with a quote from Johan Tumanduk, the synod secretary of the Protestant Church of Western Indonesia (GPIB), who said that the downside of Protestant churches having several denominations was that they could not work hand in hand to help each other.“A church tends to ignore the problems of other churches,” he said.
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The man was discussing the endless persecution of Christians (not forgetting Ahmadis, Buddhists, Shia, etc) in which local and national government readily collaborates with IslamoNazi thug gangs like FPI and GARIS. For more info on the ordeal of religious minorities, look at that last post or just in-put any of the creeds I just mentioned into our search box!
“The bargaining position of a church is weak as they try to solve the problems alone, so it is easily attacked by groups. If they can work together, not only pray all the time, but also put their prayers into action, I think it could help to solve the problem.” http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/news/its-easy-for-a-church-to-get-a-building-permit-home-affairs-ministry/572105
And he’s got to be right. Unity is strength, for sure. Otherwise the bad guys win!
So….
Did you read in the JP last week about the cold-hearted bleating from the Seventh Day Adventists? I’d planned to post on it at the time, but got swept along with so many other issues. So now let’s look at what that sycophantic sect had to say.
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“I specifically thank the President of Indonesia for the wonderful religious liberty that is provided to groups who live in Indonesia and we are grateful for that,” Ted Wilson, the president of the general conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, told journalists after a meeting with Yudhoyono.
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And so many more.
Wilson’s blindness to what’s going on here must surely be affected – the man’s not a fool!
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“I specifically thank the President of Indonesia for the wonderful religious liberty that is provided to groups who live in Indonesia…”
Good grief!
Wilson sounds like a Little-Sir-Echo of the Archbigot of Jakarta, Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali, who last year told us that Indonesia is the most tolerant country in the world, while also calling for Ahmadiyah to be outlawed and branding Shia as heretics.
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Is Wilson looking for those verses about crossing to the other side of the road when you see somebody in trouble.
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Well, let’s not contribute to any more to any Adventist charities. They can’t plead ignorance as an excuse for that brain-dead blether – it’s just that they don’t want to know, as the JP noted – Wilson said his delegation and the President had not discussed intolerant acts and persecution that have affected minority groups in Indonesia. http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2013/02/12/church-leaders-thank-sby-religious-liberty.html
I thought Christians were supposed to CARE!
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ORION 5:43 pm on February 18, 2013 Permalink |
I cannot see what is glorious in a Vodka monument as vodka has destroyed more lives in Russia than even WWII. As to Christians fighting among themselves, it is not new. Religion does not unite people but put them at loggerhead over crap stories. My religion is better than your religion and therefore the Lord will allow me into Heaven, but not you, you swine. The next one repeat the same song over and over. Nobody ever thought what God or Allah would think of that circus. Religion is the domain of the priesthood. It has nothing to do with God. It is all about POWER by the few over the many. And with power comes privilege and all that goes with it. And the suckers are milked of their 10% every month to feed the parasites. Religion, somebody said, was invented by the first scoundrel who met the first fool!
ross1948 5:46 pm on February 18, 2013 Permalink |
Abuse of vodka has done lots of harm, Orion, and same with Scotch.
But in and of themselves, they are pleasant ways of easing stress, and God (or Allah!) knows the Russians needed that during the long marxist nightmare!
Anyway, as some people say to me sometimes, lighten up -it was meant to be a fairly facetious post.
vojo 10:27 am on February 19, 2013 Permalink
Well, that comment about the Vodka Monument made me scour this post and then look further, and I found the answer in the previous post. This post about the 7th Day Adventists is serious, but I guess ORION does have a point about the scourge of alcohol in Russia.
I agree with ORION about religion in general, but what do you make of the media jumping all over the Pope quitting, as if it really matters? I guess it was a slow news day, but who really cares who’s running the RC Church. I’m Roman Catholic myself, and I don’t care, and that church hasn’t had any influence over my beliefs or opinions since the 1970s. Even though there are supposedly over 1b Catholics in the world I tend to think most of them are like me and don’t follow Catholic teachings to the letter like for example in birth control or condom use.