[Darrell]

YANGON, Myanmar—A New Zealand bar manager and his business associates were sentenced Tuesday by a Myanmar court to two years and six months in prison for insulting Buddhism over an online

http://www.wsj.com/articles/myanmar-cour...1426581178

[Ricardo]

Don't give thee fundies from around here any ideas...

[MasculineChirstianMan]

(03-17-2015, 12:15 PM)Ricardo Wrote: Don't give thee fundies from around here any ideas...

They already have the idea, just not the means to act on said idea. (Thank God.)

[leo the lamb]

(03-17-2015, 04:58 PM)MasculineChirstianMan Wrote:

(03-17-2015, 12:15 PM)Ricardo Wrote: Don't give thee fundies from around here any ideas...

They already have the idea, just not the means to act on said idea. (Thank God.)

Unfortunately they do, though in ways that can't be challenged in a court of law. They've pretty well perfected the art of making invisible prisons.


I've been wondering if (and to what extent) the Christian Persecution thing is exaggerated. Christians are persecuted for their faith, obviously, but do other faithful face any less persecution on the whole? I know fundies love to embellish various evidences of their great faith, and my view of the evangelical crowd isn't much less cynical.

[Ricardo]

What I always find amazing is that the people being presented by most conservative organizations as martyrs and persecuted, (in Iran, Iraq, Egypt and Africa,) are from denominations that IFBs would not consider as "true believers."

[Christian Socialist]

Dear SFL Forum Reader:

What I always find amazing is that even when MasculineChirstianMan's observation re: secret prisons is mentioned, no one thinks 'Star Chamber' or 'extra-judicial imprisonment.' Nobody smells the fascism.

Christian Socialist