Ósanngjarnar kröfur múslíma

Háværar eru kröfur múslíma þessa dagana um friðhelgi fyrir "guðlasti", sem birst hefur í blöðum í formi teikninga, jafnvel skopteikninga, af Múhameð "spámanni". Jafnframt gera múslímar kröfur til þess að fá að byggja moskur sem víðast á vesturlöndum.

Hvernig væri að skoða hvernig hlutunum er varið í heimalöndum múslíma, þar sem þeir eru í meirihluta og hafa stjórnvaldið.

1. Leyfa þeir byggingu kristinna kirkna? Óvíða.
2. Leyfa þeir múslímum, sem það vilja, að gerast kristnir? Nei. Þeir sem vilja verða kristnir eru ofsóttir með ýmsu móti, bæði með því að hafna þeim viðurværis, með fangelsunum og jafnvel með lífláti.
3. Sýna þeir öðrum trúarbrögðum virðingu? Yfirleitt ekki. Þó eru í Malasíu lög, sem skylda þegnana til að sýna trúarbrögðum hver annars virðingu, og ég held að þau séu almennt virt.

Væri ekki eðlilegt að stjórnvöld á vesturlöndum nýttu tækifærin (þau sem þeir hafa ekki enn glatað) til þess að þrýsta á stjórnvöld múslímaríkja að auka trúfrelsið í þeirra löndum?

Hvað finnst ykkur?

The Origin of Christmas

Do you know why Christmas is held on Dec 25th? It is known but not much spoken of.

It was not that anyone originally believed that Jesus was born on that day or any time near that day. The birth date of Jesus had nothing to do with it. In short it was something like this (you find more about the heathen origin googling Christmas Origin):

In the first centuries of Christianity the Romans often persecuted the Christians (and the Jews). They were jailed, tortured, thrown before the lions in the arena, thrown before gladiators etc. The persecution was so hard that Christians finally had to go under ground, even to the Catacombs, to pray and have their services, and some even had to stay down there.

The Romans held the feast of the Sun which they belived was born anew on Dec 25th. This was a heathen feast with a lot of drinking and orgy. At this feast the law enforcement was down, as everyone was feasting for the rising Sun (god) and getting drunk. The Christians found out that they could disguise their services in the homes or in the open by holding these at the feasting days of the rising of the Sun. In the eyes of the Christians, Jesus was their spiritual sun, so there was not a big problems for them to say that they were feasting the rebirth of the Sun. They were used to allegories.

So, the feast of the rising Sun gradually became the feast of the birth of Jesus for the Christians. And in time it stuck so that when Christianity was made the public religion, the feast of the rising of the Sun was officially changed to Mass of the birth of Christ, or Christmas.

Souldn't we today think more of the suffering of Christians all over the world when we know how Christmas came about?

Merry Christmas -- or, rather, reverent Christmas.