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I am living in Denmark right now. I find it rather challenging to do that while continuing to be a Christian.
A little about my life:
For many years I used to work at the social services in a town in Jutland, Denmark. My origins are Dutch but my father settled here shortly after the war because the dykes were poorly maintained. Some years later his choice was proven right. More than half of the Netherlands was flooded.
I grew up in Denmark and did choose to work with families who needed help with their troubled teenagers.
After some 20 years in my job I got tired of it. I became rather disillusioned. You have to understand the Danish system. All employees sit on their own cash registers.
Whenever a person in need comes into your office the primary goal is to send the client into the next office. Some have applied for welfare needs for +10 years and they have not gotten a single cent. How they survive I don't know. My job was to say no even if they came into my office with their head chopped off. I was never a question to help people.
I wanted to do something with my life and a civil war was ongoing down in Bosnia. I traveled down there and helped people out. Of course I soon realize if you help someone victimized in a war, you get enemies. Soon people were shooting after me. Then I moved on.
A group of investors approached me based on my knowledge about troubled teenagers. They wanted to establish a boarding school for troubled teenagers in Jamaica. Back around year 2000 residential treatment was seen as the answer for families with troubled teenagers. The 3-strike laws did put teenagers in prison for life without parole faster than most could spell their names.
We did good establishing boarding schools in Jamaica, Costa Rica, Montana and Mexico. Down in Costa Rica our short term summer program were even copied by the huge company who otherwise has set the standards for residential treatment in the northern America.
I am pleased to say that we serviced a lot of families.
However in huge businesses the money men focus on short term profit, so I did choose to leave my position and return to Denmark.
The Denmark I returned to is in bad shape. The membership of the European Union has turned out to be a burden to our country. They have asked us to dismantle our welfare society because all EU-countries must look alike. They have decided to reset all standards in schooling, health care and public services to the lowest standard found in any EU country. It is called harmonization.
What does it mean? Let us just imaging that the United States were expanded to include a couple of the countries south of the Texas border. Then the congress would decide that your pay check, the schools and the hospitals should be run like they do in Mexico. Would you like it? Of course no! The population in Denmark doesn’t either.
But it is not the only thing. The Denmark I left is not the Denmark I returned to. It is way more violent.
The cause is the war on terrorism. Denmark used to be a country where a lot of people immigrated to. The Danes didn’t like tell people how we live and how they should live so they could be fully integrated as Danes. In fact if you arrive as a foreigner in Denmark none would speak to you unless it is work-related. I remember that I had co-workers where I didn’t know whether they had wives or children and we worked together for 10-15 years. The reason was that they never went out and took a drink with us. As Danes we don’t talk with people outside the family unless they want to drink with us.
It starts about age 14 or 15 when the parents serve alcohol for their child. At age 16 the teenagers can buy all the alcohol on their own as long as the percentage is below 16.5. The funny thing even with all that alcohol around, we don’t experience binge drinking among the teenagers. They just sit quietly down and start to talk. Around them groups of parents in yellow jackets hangs in the shadows. They are called the night owls and their job is send teenagers who have started to drink on empty brains home, so they don’t hurt themselves.
It is not what did change while I was away. No the problem is all the teenagers who don’t drink. They have armed themselves and for reasons unknown to everyone they have started to shoot at Danes who don’t shave and looked like they have ridden a motorcycle. Some say that we have pushed them out of our general society when we tried to flush the fifth columns aka potential suicide bombers out by making drawings of Muhammad because we didn’t want bombings like those in London in Denmark.
There are parts of Copenhagen, Odense, Aarhus and Aalborg where you are as good as dead if you enter it unshaved by mistake.
But it is not all. In the spring when an army of home invaders cross the Danish borders without even showing their passports the snow is gone. It is only possible because we are member of the EU. The police cannot catch them because they travel in Trabant Cars which is build of an unknown material which protects them from destruction from the asset rain caused by the German industry down in the Ruhr district. All other cars will vanish if they are outside when it rains. The average life of a Trabant car is 28 years, so you can see that we have a problem with home invasions.
I have reinforced my house and I rarely leave it. I have to rely on a defense based on the structure alone because we Danes are not allowed to arm ourselves. If I am caught owning even a small 22 which is basically unable to kill a human being I would go to jail for a full year. The government took all the weapons away from the population before they did cut back on all social benefits just weeks ago.
If some in your country speaks of gun control, in reality they are speaking of increasing the taxes. It is just a warning based on hard earned experiences of the Danish population. Once your guns are gone, there are no limits to the taxes and they want you to live until you are 120 years old before you are allowed to retire.
I have placed my faith in Good. Every time someone comes to my door, I pray that it is not a home invasion, group of arm heathens or Jehovah’s witnesses.
I hope that this makes you understand how harsh the conditions are for us Christian believers in Denmark.
God bless your all.
A little about my life:
For many years I used to work at the social services in a town in Jutland, Denmark. My origins are Dutch but my father settled here shortly after the war because the dykes were poorly maintained. Some years later his choice was proven right. More than half of the Netherlands was flooded.
I grew up in Denmark and did choose to work with families who needed help with their troubled teenagers.
After some 20 years in my job I got tired of it. I became rather disillusioned. You have to understand the Danish system. All employees sit on their own cash registers.
Whenever a person in need comes into your office the primary goal is to send the client into the next office. Some have applied for welfare needs for +10 years and they have not gotten a single cent. How they survive I don't know. My job was to say no even if they came into my office with their head chopped off. I was never a question to help people.
I wanted to do something with my life and a civil war was ongoing down in Bosnia. I traveled down there and helped people out. Of course I soon realize if you help someone victimized in a war, you get enemies. Soon people were shooting after me. Then I moved on.
A group of investors approached me based on my knowledge about troubled teenagers. They wanted to establish a boarding school for troubled teenagers in Jamaica. Back around year 2000 residential treatment was seen as the answer for families with troubled teenagers. The 3-strike laws did put teenagers in prison for life without parole faster than most could spell their names.
We did good establishing boarding schools in Jamaica, Costa Rica, Montana and Mexico. Down in Costa Rica our short term summer program were even copied by the huge company who otherwise has set the standards for residential treatment in the northern America.
I am pleased to say that we serviced a lot of families.
However in huge businesses the money men focus on short term profit, so I did choose to leave my position and return to Denmark.
The Denmark I returned to is in bad shape. The membership of the European Union has turned out to be a burden to our country. They have asked us to dismantle our welfare society because all EU-countries must look alike. They have decided to reset all standards in schooling, health care and public services to the lowest standard found in any EU country. It is called harmonization.
What does it mean? Let us just imaging that the United States were expanded to include a couple of the countries south of the Texas border. Then the congress would decide that your pay check, the schools and the hospitals should be run like they do in Mexico. Would you like it? Of course no! The population in Denmark doesn’t either.
But it is not the only thing. The Denmark I left is not the Denmark I returned to. It is way more violent.
The cause is the war on terrorism. Denmark used to be a country where a lot of people immigrated to. The Danes didn’t like tell people how we live and how they should live so they could be fully integrated as Danes. In fact if you arrive as a foreigner in Denmark none would speak to you unless it is work-related. I remember that I had co-workers where I didn’t know whether they had wives or children and we worked together for 10-15 years. The reason was that they never went out and took a drink with us. As Danes we don’t talk with people outside the family unless they want to drink with us.
It starts about age 14 or 15 when the parents serve alcohol for their child. At age 16 the teenagers can buy all the alcohol on their own as long as the percentage is below 16.5. The funny thing even with all that alcohol around, we don’t experience binge drinking among the teenagers. They just sit quietly down and start to talk. Around them groups of parents in yellow jackets hangs in the shadows. They are called the night owls and their job is send teenagers who have started to drink on empty brains home, so they don’t hurt themselves.
It is not what did change while I was away. No the problem is all the teenagers who don’t drink. They have armed themselves and for reasons unknown to everyone they have started to shoot at Danes who don’t shave and looked like they have ridden a motorcycle. Some say that we have pushed them out of our general society when we tried to flush the fifth columns aka potential suicide bombers out by making drawings of Muhammad because we didn’t want bombings like those in London in Denmark.
There are parts of Copenhagen, Odense, Aarhus and Aalborg where you are as good as dead if you enter it unshaved by mistake.
But it is not all. In the spring when an army of home invaders cross the Danish borders without even showing their passports the snow is gone. It is only possible because we are member of the EU. The police cannot catch them because they travel in Trabant Cars which is build of an unknown material which protects them from destruction from the asset rain caused by the German industry down in the Ruhr district. All other cars will vanish if they are outside when it rains. The average life of a Trabant car is 28 years, so you can see that we have a problem with home invasions.
I have reinforced my house and I rarely leave it. I have to rely on a defense based on the structure alone because we Danes are not allowed to arm ourselves. If I am caught owning even a small 22 which is basically unable to kill a human being I would go to jail for a full year. The government took all the weapons away from the population before they did cut back on all social benefits just weeks ago.
If some in your country speaks of gun control, in reality they are speaking of increasing the taxes. It is just a warning based on hard earned experiences of the Danish population. Once your guns are gone, there are no limits to the taxes and they want you to live until you are 120 years old before you are allowed to retire.
I have placed my faith in Good. Every time someone comes to my door, I pray that it is not a home invasion, group of arm heathens or Jehovah’s witnesses.
I hope that this makes you understand how harsh the conditions are for us Christian believers in Denmark.
God bless your all.
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