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Eric Metaxas Interview. Persecution of Christians, GAZA etc.

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In India, one state with 40% Christians, 300 churches destroyed....


This is a problem as old as the Brahmin caste in India. It was a Brahmin who killed St.Thomas near Chennai two millennia ago, a Brahmin who killed Gandhi and a Brahmin who founded Hindutva. Now the Brownshirts, often in cooperation with local police and officials, roam freely and it is Muslims and Christians (both regarded as foreign religions loaded with imperial baggage) that bear the brunt of the pain.

Technically the Indian constitution says it respects freedom of religion but that has not been the case, in practice, for a long time now.

My hope and prayer is that this persecution is turning Indians away from Modi and his radicalized BJP. The last election was encouraging in that respect.

The church is already two thousand years old in India and there was a Jewish presence in Kerala on the Malabar coast long before that also. It is not going anyway and the future belongs to us.
 
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Regarding Christian Palestinians, they have been in decline for many years now. The estimate in 1947 was about 40% of Palestinians were Christians. Many have now left the region and the rate now is single digits. At the same time, the local Palestinians have become more and more Islamic and radicalized. They are committed to a form of asymmetric warfare, to violence, and unethical conduct that Christians cannot support. It is a big shame that one of the oldest Christian communities in the world seems now destined to disappear, especially since they gave the Palestinian cause some international credibility. It also does not bode well for the future of the Palestinian cause. They have no moral power anymore without the Christians and their actions are increasingly foolish, violent, and extreme. The contrast with Arab Israeli Christians who are generally rich, well-educated and moderate could not be more extreme.
 
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