3 Sept 2021 - make a world where it is safer for Christians to live in

3 years ago

I am concerned that Christianity can't be practiced in Afghanistan, because preaching to other people about Jesus is a part of Christianity. Yet in Afghanistan it is illegal to preach Jesus to other people, as well as to convert from a Muslim to a Christian. In 2006, when a church with its students went to Pakistan, the pastor was beheaded as well as a medical volunteer and the students were held captive until South Korea pulled its troops out of Afghanistan.
https://www.rferl.org/a/1078463.html

After recording this, I tried to find the sources I had seen over time (as I just wanted to record my thoughts very quickly).

Sources that say "it is unclear" why the crusades was preached by the pope: https://brewminate.com/deflecting-chaos-pope-urban-ii-and-the-first-crusade/

Man and woman who was kidnapped for (not 8 months, for a month): They kidnapped a couple in their 80s and released the woman after an entire month, saying that their war isn't against woman. They had the nerve to say that after taking an 80 year-old woman custody for an entire month not for anything they did wrong, but because they were people they could use to threaten others to release their own millitant members who were taken to prison for what were probably their actions? It was the Al-Qaeda and not the Taliban, and also the article didn't say they wanted American troops out.
https://churchleaders.com/daily-buzz/273849-al-qaeda-releases-christian-missionary.html
On what kind of people those missionaries were:
https://www.eternitynews.com.au/archive/update-australian-missionary-couple-kidnapped-in-burkina-faso-what-we-know-so-far/

Also note that in the same article it says 28 people were killed and that Dr Elliot was not released.

Young Christian girls kidnapped and forcibly converted:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8910025/Christian-girl-13-kidnapped-44-year-old-man-Pakistan-rescued-police.html

Can we please make it safe to live? Can we please allow for religious freedom?
Also just in case it gives the wrong impression, I want to say upfront that by when I say
Governments are not supposed to tell women what to do -> does not in any way mean anything about what I think about killing the unborn. I think human lives should be protected. But I'll leave that for another video if ever I feel like recording my thoughts on it (which I'm not sure I will because of how heated the debate is)

David Wood's videos show where girls are married off, and phrases like 'Christians are the worst of creatures' are found in Islamic literature (and they are shown on the screen with references).

Many Christians are Christians despite the dangers around them, and believe in Jesus even if they face death, but if people face death for believing in something, it is inevitable that people will yield to whatever is threatening them as the threat is immediate. So once Christianity is attacked more and more, it might be considered the norm, or that the Christians were the ones to initiate it by doing things Jesus told them to do (to preach the gospel) despite the laws imprisoning Christians for being Christians, while claiming they allow people to practice their faith if they were never muslims.

It would be nice if Christians could go all over their world and practice their faith, without having to fear for their lives. We hear numbers from the news and when it is from an islamic organisation it is almost as if it is regarded as a natural disaster and that one or two things they say are emphasized for the media to hear something new, but those are real human lives, and it should not be ignored for the sake of saying things that promote Islam like "The war is not against women so they released a woman" and "They did it only because they wanted their own prisoners released" or quotes about how happy the missionary woman is to sleep in her own bed,
because the woman was in her 80s and kidnapped for close to an entire month before being released, her husband was not released then, and if the prisoners are released that doesn't mean they will stop them from doing things that made them go to prison in the first place.

Kidnapping people and threatening others for their own benefit should not be acceptable, but I feel like a lot of articles are passive or emphasize abnomalies which are much more pleasant to hear (someone being released) but which should not be acceptable in the first place. People who were kidnapped should not have had to have lost that part of their lives. Even girls who are returned to their families, they should never have experienced kidnapping, rape and forced conversions and it is a scary thing to think that the organisations are getting bigger and bigger, or with less restrictions at the cost of people getting used to stricter and stricter restrictions that they have no choice but to live with.

I am a Christian and am worried that Christians won't have a safe place. For Christians in Afghanistan that fear is a reality.

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