Is the Pope Christian?

Karibib — TOO often a letter is written and a methodology based on creating pseudo facts used to argue a case. A point of view or opinion is exactly that, it is not a fact. Not all truth is relative. If it were, then stating it as such would be a contradiction in terms.

When Shikongo wrote that Christianity is one of the primary ideological causes for slavery and “has held humanity back by a thousand years” [The Namibian, May 2013], one is immediately made aware that he/she has not taken a closer look at history and what actually transpired.

You propose that slavery is a function of Christian ideals, as is the mind-set of colonisation. Maybe a comprehensive history of slavery and conquest (worldwide) might make you aware that slavery was around well before Christianity, was prevalent in most cultures, and is still very much alive today. It is human depravity and greed that can be more accurately tied to slavery than a religion.

In addition, it may be fact that the Pope received the first slaves and Christianity was used to justify slavery and apartheid by misusing a few verses in the Old Testament but does being the Pope make you a Christian as described in the Bible?

Well, let us compare how Jesus came to earth, lived here and the circumstances surrounding his death, to that of the Pope and his predecessors. Jesus died without a place to sleep, no savings or any earthly future to speak of, and was crucified wearing a crown made of thorns.

The Pope on the other hand is in charge of a large financial institution, rides in golden carriages, calls himself Father and wears a crown worth more than the price of an average Namibian's house. How is it that the Pope fears death so much when Jesus did not resist His?

It is clear that the Pope has little or nothing to do with Christianity as given in the Bible. He is just a man at the head of a large Christian institution which calls itself the Roman Catholic Church. So it is irrelevant that he received the first slaves, at least from a biblical point of view.

Apartheid was founded by quoting the scriptures about Ham son of Noah being cursed by God. Jesus was not born a white man, but was most likely a darker skinned Middle Eastern man. So at that point apartheid already had no leg to stand on by raising the white race above others, not to mention its contradiction of the biblical commandment to love one another.

Using a Bible to do things that contradict its teachings, means it might as well not have been used at all.

The Bible is explicit in its teachings in Romans 13:8 and Matthew 23:22. ‘Love one another'. If you can give an argument against love, and all its attributes i.e. kindness, compassion, patience, forgiveness, selflessness etc., then you will have to indeed write an interesting opinion piece.

I would also like to know how it is you propose to relate the development, forecasting, addition and subtraction from society, by omitting certain religions. That is clearly a large task, and safely assumed, an impossible one. Also those ‘many' who argue this, to whom do you so specifically refer?

Namibian society was indeed founded on undemocratic colonialist principles, but again, did sincere Christians fund and drive colonisation? I encourage you to investigate your claims.

As far as producing scientists, I invite you to publish your credentials in this field.

I have met some incredible minds in their respective scientific, engineering and medical fields at church where they were praising Jesus Christ, none the less. I do not believe you can relate academic ability to religious views, it is absurd and irrational.

If it is a secular society you want, then take a look around. You are in one. You can do as you please within the confinement of the law, without religious restrictions. There are also many schools in Windhoek (and Namibia) that practice secular humanism.

In terms of Christian public holidays, you are more than welcome to practice your secular views over the Christmas and Easter period and Sundays. Enjoy working over these days, Christians will not force you to celebrate with them.

So just as the Pope and apartheid falsely use/used Christianity as a guise for their actions, it seems you used unfounded arguments to support your opinion as pseudo-fact. Now that is truly un-scientific hogwash. Source

'We're Christians' say Couple who helped Naked Man

Cry for help: The man pressed on the bell at this house. Photo: Rachel Olding

An elderly couple who opened their front door on Monday night to find a badly bashed, naked man pleading for help say they called triple-0 and covered the man with a blanket because of their Christian faith.
Police have hailed the pair as good Samaritans for helping the man when he staggered onto their front porch, covered in blood and barely coherent.

I don't know how he could even reach the doorbell, he couldn't stand up. 

He told police that he had been mugged, stripped, tied up and locked in a car boot.

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The man, who police are yet to formally identify and who speaks little English, desperately pressed on the front door bell of the Liverpool couple's home dozens of times at 8.45pm screaming "help me, help me".

 

The couple were watching TV at the time and opened the door to find a naked man, aged in his 20s and of Asian appearance, collapsed on their doorstep.

The elderly woman, who did not wish to be identified, said he was bleeding from the ears, had his wrists cable tied, was covered in cuts and bruises, could barely stand and was incoherent.

"I don't know how he could even reach the doorbell, he couldn't stand up," she said. Police believe the man chose the couple's home for help because they had a light on.

"Luckily he's found a kind and caring couple who've opened the door for him," said Detective Inspector Danny Doherty.

The elderly woman said her husband immediately called the emergency services and her daughter-in-law rushed to her home around the corner to get a clean blanket.

"I was shaking like a leaf," she said. "But we couldn't just leave him there to die. We are Christians. We are good people. We had to help him."

The man was taken to Liverpool Hospital where he is in a stable condition. Detective Inspector Doherty said initial investigations provided few clues as to how the man got there. Until police were given medical clearance to formally interview the man, they were unable to shed light on what had happened.

The elderly woman said police called a Mandarin interpreter on the phone at her home so that he was able to provide some details of his ordeal. She heard the man tell police, via the interpreter, that he had had his wallet stolen by a group of people who then stripped him naked, cable tied his hands and locked him in a car boot before dumping him just a few doors down from the house where he sought refuge.

However, Detective Inspector Danny Doherty said police had not been able to confirm any details about the suspected abduction.

Police have appealed for anyone who saw a naked man around O'Brien Parade about 8.45pm on Monday to contact police.

US Order To Shutdown Millions Of Christian Websites Shocks World

A shocking report authored by the office of Russia’s top religious leader Patriarch Kirill I states that this past week the United States ordered over 10 million Christian websites destroyed that they claimed were a “threat” to their National Security and that the American Internet giant Google quickly responded by making them all disappear.

According to this report, Google first came under assault from the US government in June when the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that they had launched an investigation into the company, a move defended against by top Google executive Amit Singhal who aside from claiming the attacks against them were baseless said, “At Google, we’ve always focused on putting the user first.”

After weeks of unrelenting pressure upon them, however, this past week Google, which had refused to answer the baseless charges against them, caved to the US government and announced that their Chairman, Eric Schmidt, who had previously said the charges against them were nonsense, agreed to testify before a US Senate Committee under threat of subpoena.

On the very same day that Google caved into these US governments demands, this report continues, they then announced that they had blacklisted and banned over 11 million websites that had been registered for free through the co.cc subdomain the world over.  Giving as its reason for this largest in history removal of private websites Google asserted that it had the right to pull the plug on sites if they “see a very large fraction of sites on a specific freehost be spammy or low-quality.”     

Co.cc is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Cocos (Keeling) Islands, an Australian territory. It is administered by VeriSign through a subsidiary company eNIC, which promotes it for international registration as “the next .com”; .cc was originally assigned in October 1997 to eNIC Corporation of Seattle WA by the IANA.

Most important to note about the .cc domain, this report points out, is its being preferred by Churches and Christian organizations around the world as “CC” also happens to be an abbreviation for “Christian Church” or “Catholic Church,” especially in Islamic Nations where due to strict laws against Christianity these free co.cc websites were the only way those belonging to this faith were able to communicate with each other.

In this Patriarch Kirill I report as to the “true reason” for the US ordered government shutdown of millions of Christian websites in Islamic Nations it states is the “fundamental shift” undertaken by the Obama regime to support radical Muslim elements instead of the once secular Arab leaders it once did.

The most crucial US turnaround in this regard happened this past week, and as we can read, in part, as reported by the Front Page Magazine News Service:

“The Obama administration is set to begin formal contacts with the Muslim Brotherhood, a group dedicated in its own words to “eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within, and sabotaging its miserable house.”

This news came in a Reuters report Wednesday, quoting a “senior U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.” Why this official felt it necessary to speak on condition of anonymity is a mystery, given the fact that Barack Obama has never made a secret of his solicitude for the Muslim Brotherhood. Even though the Brotherhood was still outlawed in Egypt at that time, he made a point of inviting leaders of the group to attend his speech to the Islamic world in Cairo on June 4, 2009. 

Not only that. Obama included the leader of a Muslim Brotherhood-linked group that had been named an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case among the clerics giving a prayer during his inauguration ceremonies: Ingrid Mattson, then-president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), offered this prayer at the National Cathedral on Obama’s Inauguration Day – despite the fact that ISNA has admitted its ties to the Brotherhood. In fact, so overwhelming is the evidence of ISNA’s involvement with the Brotherhood and Hamas that the previous summer, federal prosecutors had rejected a request from ISNA to remove its unindicted co-conspirator status. Obama even sent his Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett to be the keynote speaker at ISNA’s national convention in 2009.”

This gravest danger posed by the US ordered destruction of these millions of Christian websites, this report continues, involves the estimated 20 million Coptic Christians now living in Egypt who, should the Muslim Brotherhood gain control, would face the removal from their homes of all of their children so they could be “educated” in Islamic schools as converts to the Muslim faith.

US author Brad O’Leary in his book “America’s War On Christianity” warns that no one should be surprised about these things as many US regimes, including Obama’s, have waged a decades long war against this faith in their attempt to eradicate it from all forms of public expression, even to outlawing school children from even mentioning the words “God,” “Bible,” or “Jesus Christ” under threat of imprisonment.

Even worse, shocking news is now coming from the United States that the Obama regime has ordered that the words “God Bless” and “Jesus Christ” cannot be used even when burying their military dead, and as we can read, in part, as reported by the Christian Post News Service:

“Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison is calling for an investigation into the actions of the Houston National Cemetery director who told pastors and veterans groups to stop using words like “God bless” and “Jesus Christ” during funeral services. Several veterans groups and pastors in the Houston area filed a religious discrimination lawsuit this week, charging that the cemetery’s director, Arleen Ocasio, was censoring prayers and certain religious terms at funerals for veterans.”

Most appalling of all of these things is the vast majority of the American people allowing their once cherished Christian values of home, family and morality to be continued to be stripped away from them with nary a protest as if they have completely forgotten that their religion would have never survived without the countless millions who martyred their lives, including Jesus, so their faith could survive.

To the horrific future lying in store for Christians living in America today should come as no surprise either as prior to his election as President, Obama stated in response to them, “…it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”