Saturday, December 23, 2006
Christians in Middle East at Risk Due to Iraq War
http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acns/digest/index.cfm?years=2006&months=12&article=784&pos=#784
I have been saying this for a long time now. Christians lived in relative peace in the Middle East for centuries. I'm not saying it was a perfect situation, but they were able to live, to take care of their families and be alright. Now this is no longer the case.
There is an important thing Christians of North America, and Europe often overlook. Christianity originated in the Middle East. Our roots as Christian are Middle Eastern. Jesus in His Earthly human form was a little Jewish boy born in Bethleham. To do anything that causes destruction for the Christian community in the Middle East is to risk the roots, the origins of the Faith. People who know what these roots are increasingly dispersed to places where their culture inevitably will be diluted and lost. Certain aspects of modern corporate and popular culture are very seductive and also very destructive to Christianity.
http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acns/digest/index.cfm?years=2006&months=12&article=784&pos=#784
I have been saying this for a long time now. Christians lived in relative peace in the Middle East for centuries. I'm not saying it was a perfect situation, but they were able to live, to take care of their families and be alright. Now this is no longer the case.
There is an important thing Christians of North America, and Europe often overlook. Christianity originated in the Middle East. Our roots as Christian are Middle Eastern. Jesus in His Earthly human form was a little Jewish boy born in Bethleham. To do anything that causes destruction for the Christian community in the Middle East is to risk the roots, the origins of the Faith. People who know what these roots are increasingly dispersed to places where their culture inevitably will be diluted and lost. Certain aspects of modern corporate and popular culture are very seductive and also very destructive to Christianity.
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