Iran sentences convert to Christianity to death

Youcef Nadarkhani, an Iranian Muslim who converted to Christianity is convicted to the death for this. The convert refused to go back to Islam even to save his life.

There is a letter from Nadarkhani from last June.

Christmas

A merry Christmas to all

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas people!

Dutch Army permits soldiers to take oath on Allah

Minister of the Interior Guusje ter Horst said in Dutch Parliament that: police officers are not allowed to give oaths in the name of Allah. Until March last year, two police forces did offer the possibility of giving an Islamic oath, but Ms Ter Horst says the practice was against the rules and has been stopped.

There were two ways in which the oath could be taken in The Netherlands. One is "in the name of God" and the other is "I proclaim". Civil servants working for the national government are also obliged to take the oath this way.

However the Dutch Army and two municipalities do allow the oath to be taken "in the name of Allah".

Separation of Church and State under assault

The separation of State and Church is under assault. From an unexpected direction.

Our Christian Democrat (CDA) Prime Minister J.P. Balkenende was a guest on Robert A. Schuller's Hour of Power (Dutch) last Sunday. The Prime Minister was presented to the viewers as the Prime Minister of The Netherlands and not as a private person. The footage was filmed in the Tower of the Catshuis, the office of the Prime Minister.

There was no reaction from the opposition in parliament, nor from the Labour Party PvdA), the coalition partner of the CDA and Christian Union parties. Only the secular blogosphere defended the strict separation of State and Church. Both the Leftwing but politically incorrect De Zwijger blog and hyper popular right wing Geenstijl attacked the Prime Minister.

Due to the erosion of the Labour party by competition from the Socialist Party (SP). And the erosion of the Liberal-Conservative Party (VVD) by Geert Wilders' Freedom Party (PVV) secularity is weakening in The Netherlands. The Christian Parties are not affected by Multiculturalism because their support is from the villages and towns. With urban voters flocking to the anti-multiculturalist parties on the Left and Right the Christian Parties are essential in putting together coalitions.

I would say that gay marriage was the last show case of Dutch hyper-liberalism.

From the frying pan into the fire

The Euro elites do not approve of the Christian view on nature:

European lawmakers approved a report condemning efforts to teach creationism in schools, underscoring concern about an emerging socially conservative agenda.

Meeting in Strasbourg, France, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe members approved, in a non-binding 48-25 vote, a report that criticizes creationism advocate for potentially sacrificing children's education "to impose religious dogma" and to promote "a radical return to the past," The International Herald Tribune reported Friday.

The radical liberal egalitarianism that powers the Euro elites allows for no serious religiousness in Europeans. Creationism is a threat. This is a confirmation of the refusal to appoint Italian Roman Catholic politician Buttiglioni as a EU mandarin, because he was a serious Christian: he held that homosexuality goes against God's plan.

Creationism supporters endorse "a radical return to the past which could prove particularly harmful in the long term for all our societies,

The European Parliament (EP) seeks to surpress this threat. The next step will be to criminalize opposition to Darwinist Dogma.

But Darwinism itself is also a danger to Liberal dogma.

Noted DNA scientist James Watson recently said in an interview with The Times of London:

that he is inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa” because “all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours – whereas all the testing says not really”, and I know that this “hot potato” is going to be difficult to address. His hope is that everyone is equal, but he counters that “people who have to deal with black employees find this not true”. He says that you should not discriminate on the basis of colour, because “there are many people of colour who are very talented, but don’t promote them when they haven’t succeeded at the lower level.

According to an article in the Independent (HT Laurence Auster):
"The newly formed Equality and Human Rights Commission, successor to the Commission for Racial Equality, said it was studying Dr Watson's remarks "in full".... Anti-racism campaigners called for Dr Watson's remarks to be looked at in the context of racial hatred laws. A spokesman for the 1990 Trust, a black human rights group, said: "It is astonishing that a man of such distinction should make comments that seem to perpetuate racism in this way. It amounts to fueling bigotry and we would like it to be looked at for grounds of legal complaint."

The radical Liberalism highest ideal is radical egalitarianism. Both religion and racial / ethnic differences are at odds with egalitarianism. Darwin is not a suitable ally for the Euro egalitarians to defeat religion, as its outcomes point to a unequal humanity similar to that of the Old Testament of the Bible.

Darwin and Christianity may not be friends, but they do seem to be in agreement about the fundamental unequality of religions, races, nations and sexes.

And the history of the Soviet Union shows you can fool people about this inequality for a considerable period of time, but Truth can not be surpressed indefinately.

In the name of the Father?

"A Dutch Catholic bishop has suggested that Christians should refer to God as "Allah" to promote better relations with Muslims.

Bishop Martinus "Tiny" Muskens of Breda told the "Network" television show that "God doesn't really care how we address Him."

Bishop Martinus "bend over backwards" Muskens urges his flock to make maximum accomodation to Muslims in The Netherlands. It is impossible for anyone to respect people who will follow this urging of this shepherd. Neither a Catholic, a Protestant, a Jew or a Muslim shall respect people with so little self respect. The Bishop has lost his salt.

But we should not be surprised that the Bishop has taken this position. As Lawrence Auster at View to the Right has pointed out regarding Pope Benedictus and his Regensburg Address, the Catholic hierarchy is bound to the 1965 Nostra Aetate. This is the document which addresses the relationship of the Roman Catholic Church with the Non-Christian Religions. Among other things Nostra Aetate holds:

"No foundation therefore remains for any theory or practice that leads to discrimination between man and man or people and people, so far as their human dignity and the rights flowing from it are concerned."

This allows: "No people, no nation, no religion, no culture, no form of government, no family organization, no human society of any kind could maintain its existence under this rule." according to Mr. Auster.

Nostra Aetate is unfettered liberalism. It is nihilistically destructive even of Christianity itself. Think of this, the Bishop also said that God does not care what we call Him? Shall we address Him Shiva, or Lucifer, or Satan? It is all the same and to think that it is different would be evil, right?

The Catholic Church has been quite aloof from worldly matters, such as immigration, military and defense. But under Nostra Aetate the Roman Catholic Church has become actively hostile to ANY defense of the West. The Church hierarchy is part of the Treason Lobby, together with Big Business, the Trade Unions, the Political Class, the national and international Bureaucracies and the Church of the Left: the Media.

There is little point in complaining about the Bishop. The Bishop and the Pope are bound by this declaration, according to Catholic doctrin. For the Catholic Church to become defenders of the West and Western nations and of Christianity it is necessary first to repudiate Nostra Aetate and to come to a new non-liberal understanding of the relation between the Catholic Churches and the responsibilities of Catholics to defend their societies.

That will be quite a bit of work.