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The article that you linked to about the persecution of Christians was a very depressing, albeit important reading.
Maybe I am just ignorant about the situation, but one overarching thing frustrates me whenever I read any articles to the above effect:
Why don’t Christians make any attempt to protect themselves in any way, shape, or form? Why continue to live among those who you full well know hate you and wish to kill you? Would anyone live among scorpions or poisonous snakes?
Recall Matt 10:23 “When you are persecuted in one town, flee to another.” and Paul fleeing those who wished to kill him in Acts 9.
It seems that many Christians conflate a holy (and required) willingness to suffer or die for the faith with some notion that it is the suffering or the dying that is what is holy as opposed to the willing sacrifice. They actively seek out suffering rather than willingly enduring it when necessary – a big difference.
A good metaphor is that of the soldier – a soldier is laying down his life for the cause, *willing to die if need be* but does try to preserve his life *in so far as it does not put the mission in any danger*. After all, a dead soldier is one less soldier for the cause. So a solider will suffer or die if he needs to, but the suffering is a potential side effect of his goal, not the goal itself. He will take cover from enemy bullets when he can, not just stand there and let them kill him.
For some real world examples – I sometimes read stories about persecuted Christians, and while I applaud their faith and their courage, so superior to mine, sometimes I can’t help but yell at the screen that they seem to just invite what is happening to them.
For example, one persecuted pastor in Iran, jailed for three years, was jailed since he *confronted the islamic fundamentalist authorities at his child’s school to not indoctrinate his child in islam during school time.* What did he think the outcome was going to be? How could that possibly have ended well?
Another was deported from Iran since he was a Christian, and then went back to iran to start a non-religious orphanage, and right back into the jails of the Iranian authorities. He was doing a wonderful thing – but he could have done it in a million other ways that didn’t have him run right by the very people who had already jailed, harassed, and persecuted him in the past.
There are numerous other such cases…if for example, you face the possibility of a dispute with an islamic neighbor, you should realize that he will likely leverage his advantage over you and simply tell everyone you blasphemed mohammed rather than dispute with you fairly. And so it goes…
Don’t get me wrong, I applaud their strength of faith and courage – the Kingdom of God will be populated with men such as these – but time and time again I see Christians make no effort to avoid incoming fire, to use my soldier metaphor. Too many members of the Body of Christ simply stand there and make no effort to protect themselves at all. It is one thing to be a willing martyr when the situation calls for it – but I do not believe that the same God, who having given us life can ask for it back again, wants us to just throw it away when it is not necessary.
*End Rant*
It does seem odd sometimes. My guess; you simply get used to being persecuted or you love where you live too much to even think there is an alternative. For a close-knitted, extended family “tribal” culture, leaving is probably very difficult.
Not to mention you need somewhere to leave to and the funds to do so.
Not to mention you need somewhere to leave to and the funds to do so.
True…I wish charities that are aimed at helping persecuted Christians would go more toward ‘avoidance’ as opposed to trying to rescue the already jailed/attacked/beaten.
An ounce of prevention, a pound of cure, all that…
For a close-knitted, extended family “tribal” culture, leaving is probably very difficult
They could pool their resources and leave together…easier to start over as a group than as individuals…
In any event, these folk are definitely in need of our prayers…it’s amazing to contrast these faithful folk with the morons and vulgar fools (e.g. miley cyrus) we hear about in the news day in and day out.
It puts the insane spiritual decline of the west in an even harsher light.
Hmm… “lozozlo”, when you use the word “avoidance” that sounds a bit like helping them get refugee status. Is that what you mean to imply?
A.J.P.
@AJP
That is one possibility, but not the only one.
I am not sure what the best solution to the epidemic of persecution is, but them just standing there and essentially just letting themselves get killed it not it.
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