migration changes Europe

[Warren]

It may yet shift to China or the East and they may re-evangelize the West.

That's been my prediction for the past year and a half or two. Even should they not evangelize the West, because of our hard hearts, the orient has been in the process of recovering Christianity from Communism for decades.

Oriental Christianity predates the Church's towering rise in the West by centuries, thanks to Nestorian missionaries in Tang China. Now, I hear, from men with sources in China's underground, that there's a thirst for Reformed, doctrinal books and the Confessions in that country. The seed those first missionaries planted has become a tree, and who's to say what a harvest may come.

I sympathize with you in re your desire for old Holland, but, it did not last, did it? What went wrong in your view?

The low countries were never so unified for Protestantism as they were for political freedom. Even William of Orange pressed to ally with southern Catholics against Phillip 2 of Spain, for the sake of freedom. Religious reform was never so much the goal as the means of the war. Therefore, I wonder if the roots of true religion were ever that deep to begin with... but that's my meager judgment.

 

[Reformed Covenanter]

This is disgusting. My family is originally from the Middle East, but I was born in Russia. My father is a college educated man, and family waited in lines for years before we were able to come to America. These "refugees" are mostly uneducated, unskilled workers.

Indeed, and many of these people are not even refugees; they were refugees until they arrived at a safe country. If they wish to leave one safe country to move to another with a higher standard of living, they are not refugees but economic migrants. Just this week in the UK, we have pictures of 30-year old looking "children" being admitted into the country on the pretext that they are child refugees. It is also of note that many of the people in Britain who oppose open-door immigration are migrants or the children of migrants who worked hard to integrate into British society, but despair at seeing the country overrun with people in numbers that are completely out of control.

 

[Warren]

Of course, many naive evangelicals have facilitated this take over by supporting open-door immigration. They have often done so on the pretext that it gives us great opportunities to share the gospel, which should be taken with a pinch of salt.

Yeah, would they unlock their own doors and let thieves enter for the sake of evangelism? Maybe they'd hold their neighbors to such an oppressive law. We forget that God is also shrewd, and plunge into "opportunities" without taking care of our neighbors' well-being first.

When can we declare the United States a failed state? I think this election shows conservatives should fall back to state reforms, and take a less invested approach in national politics, working reform in the local and state levels, against the nationalism of the Dems and Reps. May Antifederalism take root.

 

[yeutter]

The whole refugee problem is related to the wicked secular policy of globalism. But now we have many refugees in Europe, Australia, and North America who are out of their traditional cultural setting. It is possible, that God has providentially put them where they are; so that they can hear the Gospel and come to know the Savior of the world.

 

[UserGone221]

The whole refugee problem is related to the wicked secular policy of globalism. But now we have many refugees in Europe, Australia, and North America who are out of their traditional cultural setting. It is possible, that God has providentially put them where they are; so that they can hear the Gospel and come to know the Savior of the world.

I think this is a wonderful, long term and comforting view. It echoes what Robert E. Lee said about the Africans sold into slavery by fellow Africans: man meant it evil, but perhaps God has brought them to America to hear the Gospel, and raise them up.

For now, with the violence and rape epidemic, it appears God's displeasure is upon Europe, with the elite taking the distinct Dhimmi posture and exposing the people to day to day violence.

When a European court acquitted an Islamic male of raping a little boy (who needed surgery to repair him), the court said that the migrant did not, perhaps, understand the little boy's cries of "no" due to language difference, Putin said,

"A society that cannot defend its children today, has no tomorrow. It has no future."

 

[Dachaser]

Think that we will soon be refighting the Crusades all over again!

 

[JoannaV]

When a European court acquitted an Islamic male of raping a little boy (who needed surgery to repair him), the court said that the migrant did not, perhaps, understand the little boy's cries of "no" due to language difference,

He was convicted of two charges. The higher court overturned the rape charge. (Whilst saying the verdict for the charge of severe sexual abuse of a juvenile was "watertight".) He will apparently remain in custody until a new trial next year. The reason for the acquittal sounds crazy, but rape laws are unfortunately weird the world over. I mean, consider how recently the UK and the USA still had laws that viewed "rape" as a crime solely against females.

 

[Calvinbeza]

Who would stop Islam?

 

[UserGone221]

Correction: I should have written that the rape charge was "overturned"; not "acquitted." I apologize.

Although the victim needed surgical repair: the Supreme Court overturned the conviction, accepting the defence lawyer’s claim that the original court had not done enough to ascertain whether or not the rapist realised the child was saying no.

According to the Supreme Court President Thomas Philipp, while the verdict was “watertight” with regard to the serious sexual assault of a minor, there was not enough evidence to support the second charge of rape.

The appeal court said the initial ruling should have dealt with whether the offender thought that the victim had agreed with the sexual act, or whether he had intended to act against his will. This means the European court is accepting that a 10 year old boy can give consent.

Consent.

Although confessed, for the above charges, he faced 6 years in prison. The boy's life is destroyed. He is likely to suffer the ill effects of the rape for the rest of his life, from a severely compromised immune system to night terrors, to psychological disorders to...