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Hello all and greetings from Ireland. The internet seems to be the most Godless place on earth, so I was absolutely delighted to stumble across this forum.
There have been two pertinent issues in my country that I would love to discuss with you. Something marvellous and something horrendous.
Let’s start with the good news? In one of the greatest decisions ever by our fine government, blasphemy was recently made a crime. The punishment is only a mere fine of something like €20,000 but that doesn’t bother me. That is just man’s punishment. God’s punishment is a lifetime of burning anguish.
I feel somewhat responsible for the law being introduced as I’ve been campaigning for the minister to introduce this legislation for years. I remember once, as a child in school, there was a muslim boy in our class and even as a youth, I realised that he was breaking the commandment “you shall have no other gods before me”. The mere existence of this boy in the same class as me was blasphemous and highly offensive. He once had to leave the class to “pray” to his imaginary god and this enraged me. It’s comforting to know he’ll end up in hell, but it would have been nice for his family to be fined €20,000. They were already struggling and this would have surely made them homeless.
Now time for the bad news... There has been an onslaught of false accusations against Christian churches in my country. Despicable adults are telling false stories about how they were abused by priests. This has lead to many Bishops resigning. My hearts go out to the poor priests and Bishops that are a victim of this terrible ordeal. I’m having difficulty coping with this. I don’t know how to react to a sinner who says there were abused by the church. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
I know you are a welcoming group of Christians and I look forward to participating in future discussions.
There have been two pertinent issues in my country that I would love to discuss with you. Something marvellous and something horrendous.
Let’s start with the good news? In one of the greatest decisions ever by our fine government, blasphemy was recently made a crime. The punishment is only a mere fine of something like €20,000 but that doesn’t bother me. That is just man’s punishment. God’s punishment is a lifetime of burning anguish.
I feel somewhat responsible for the law being introduced as I’ve been campaigning for the minister to introduce this legislation for years. I remember once, as a child in school, there was a muslim boy in our class and even as a youth, I realised that he was breaking the commandment “you shall have no other gods before me”. The mere existence of this boy in the same class as me was blasphemous and highly offensive. He once had to leave the class to “pray” to his imaginary god and this enraged me. It’s comforting to know he’ll end up in hell, but it would have been nice for his family to be fined €20,000. They were already struggling and this would have surely made them homeless.
Now time for the bad news... There has been an onslaught of false accusations against Christian churches in my country. Despicable adults are telling false stories about how they were abused by priests. This has lead to many Bishops resigning. My hearts go out to the poor priests and Bishops that are a victim of this terrible ordeal. I’m having difficulty coping with this. I don’t know how to react to a sinner who says there were abused by the church. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
I know you are a welcoming group of Christians and I look forward to participating in future discussions.
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