Steve Warren – CBN News Feb 4, 2021
Christian leaders in Denmark say religious liberty and the freedoms of speech and expression have come under fire after a proposed law would require leaders of all faiths to translate their sermons into Danish and submit them to the government.
La Croix International reports the new measure is primarily aimed at radical Islamic groups, but it will also affect churches. It is scheduled to be reviewed this month at the Folketing, the Danish Parliament. The country has more a population of more than 270,000 Muslims, and most of the sermons in the mosques are preached in Arabic.
The government of Denmark has said the law is necessary to curb the growth of Islamic extremism.
CBN News sources explain the measure is aimed at getting the preaching of jihad out of mosques, but because Europe is so politically correct they won’t just pinpoint mosques. They’re including churches and casting a broad, politically correct net.
Christian leaders are sounding the alarm about the proposed law and the dangers it represents.
Church of England Bishop Robert Innes wrote a letter to Danish prime minister, Mette Frederiksen expressing his alarm over the measure with what he describes as an “overly restrictive” bind on freedom of expression, according to The Guardian.
Innes told the newspaper he feared the law if backed in the Danish parliament, would be replicated elsewhere in Europe at a time when religious minorities were generally finding their freedoms being encroached upon.
“I am sure it comes from a genuine concern about the security of the estate and the monitoring of all religious minorities who might be perceived as a security risk,” Innes said. “I share the ambition of the Danish government to ensure safety and security and the desire that all religious organizations in Denmark conduct their act peacefully, but to require translation of sermons into the national language goes too far.”
“In a democratic society I would hope the government would strive for better cooperation with religious organizations than hastily resorting to legislation interfering with their freedoms,” the bishop continued.
“This is a first which is why it is so important we find a way to address and encourage the Danish government to find another solution. Because my real concern is that if the Danes do it other countries may copy,” he noted. “That would be a very worrying development indeed.”
Innes told The Guardian that this is not an isolated incident, saying “Little by little, minority groups are being treated with increasing suspicion.”
Leaders of the Evangelical Lutheran Church have also written to Danish government officials with their concerns. In a letter published in the Christian national daily newspaper in Denmark, Bishop Peter Skov-Jacobsen and his fellow bishops said, “… we are risking that the Danish State neglects the recognition of non-Danish speaking congregations as being part of the ecclesiastical and cultural life of Denmark. It would cause great harm, should the many Danish congregations abroad face similar action from foreign states. Passing the bill would furthermore damage the reputation of Denmark in the rest of the world.”
The Rev. Smitha Prasadam, the Anglican chaplain in Denmark, told the national Danish daily newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, her concerns about sending translated sermons to the government.
“Any sermon depends on Biblical text and context; the scripted and unscripted; the dynamic between preacher and congregation … in a translation, how would nuance, meaning, and emphasis be carried?” Prasadam asked. “There is a degree of sophistication which would demand more professional skill which would then carry time and financial implications. Sermon preparation varies in content and delivery. Sometimes I write out the whole script. Other times headlines or bullet points only. Sometimes (even when I have a whole scripted sermon to hand) I preach off the cuff as prompted by the Holy Spirit.”
Innes also told the website Anglican Ink that requiring preachers to send their sermons to the government after being translated into Danish is against the freedom of speech.
“Proposals to require translation of sermons into a national language are illiberal and anti-freedom of speech. We have tended to devote effort on protecting religious freedom of expression and belief outside Europe,” he explained. “We’re now also seeing an urgent need to act on these fundamental issues across Europe itself. The consequences of restricting these freedoms are concerning and far-reaching.”
Other European churches have also relayed their concerns about the proposed law. These churches include the Lutheran World Federation, the Roman Catholic Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union, and the Conference of European Churches.
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Churches never tell the truth anyway. Christianity does not concern the goyim–it is an attempt by Jesus to reconnect the scattered ten tribes with Judah and Benjamin again, but the latter have stubbornly refused (for 3000 years) to re-admit their brothers into the (Satanist) clique.
@lewis jones….Its not a ‘Satanist’ clique, (there’s no textual evidence in the Tanakh/Talmud/Zohar supporting that) but a Jehovah clique, since the god of the Jews is not Satan, but Yahvah/Jehovah…
“Christianity springing out of a Jewish root, & only comprehensible as a growth of this soil, represents the movement counter to every morality of breeding, of race, & of privilege: it is the anti-Aryan religion par excellence. Christianity, the transvaluation of all Aryan values, the triumph of Chandala values..” –Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
this is another attack on Jesus. one of many; nothing new. He said,’they hated me, they will hate you’. the truth will be attacked especially by the beast system. more & more christians will have to go to their homes to meet. ‘Look up, your redemption draws nigh’.
2020 – 2030 The New World Order According to Modern Church Leadership
– “We have finally eliminated sin from our lives and we no longer lay guilt trips and judge ourselves and others? We are finally free of our hang-ups. Compliance with the new normal brings a feeling of safety in numbers, mutual acceptance, equality and unity. That is the true ecumenism we must celebrate.”
– “If we could only do that for all faiths for our New World Order.”
– “But, how come we still discriminate over gender? Look at that terrible division and unhappiness.”
– “How come those children are being discriminated against regarding age and sex?”
– “And, how come some people have more than others? Communism? Is that not being all the same, like with the success of ecumenism?” – “Isn’t being the same being and feeling ‘safe’ like when we all wear our masks?”
– “One God? You call him, Allah. Hey, we have a great deal in common. But wait, don’t tell me you still believe in sin and hell? Oh darn. There is no place for you in the One World Religion.”
– “Did we not learn that in order to stop fighting with one another we had to eliminate all our differences, and agree on a common ground, which we finally found and which we called ‘nothing’? Like the way we got rid of sin, if it was causing differences and problems then we just got rid of the entire idea and it disappeared, and ceased to trouble us. Right? We eliminated it to nothingness.”
– “‘Differences’, they have always been our problem. They cause so much selfishness. We have to eradicate all of them, otherwise there will be no real equality, unity, and happiness.”
– “Have we not been waring masks for the past 5 years such that we no longer reveal our facial differences in public, and are we no now more equal in having our identity numbers printed on our masks which are mandatory? Are we not also much safer and happier?”
– “Now, that we no longer own anything are we not also much safter and happier, as Brother Lord Schwab prophesied in 2020?”
– “Are we not much happier that we cannot go near each other to encounter their differences?”
– “Did not all of those differences keep us apart, and cause us to compete and do all of those things that were different from our present lockstep from bed to bathroom to screen making everything pleasing to the Brother Lord Gates of ‘sustainability’ and according to the will of the universal benevolent AI?”
– “But as for our numbers, there are so very many of them. Our identity numbers make us essentially different from one another, but underneath there are now no differences and except for our numbers are we not really one and the same?”
– The most benevolent AI says that so many different numbers are causing major problems with sacred sustainability, efficiency and equality, and there will be more happiness and unity only by reducing our numbers even more. If he only has to sustain and keep track of one half of our numbers since the last great pandemic of 2025 there would be Less of our numbers which would mean more equality, unity and ultimate happiness.”
– Let us eliminate our numbers as much as we can like we did with sin, conscience, the fear of the virus, and the idea of property, all of which kept us different, unequal, inefficient, unsustainable, independent and so very unhappy.
To Nico X–it is a difficult subject and I was expecting your objection. I gave the opinion that the OT god is Satan just because of the immorality of the being, who chooses Abraham as in a pact with the Devil, who will provide all bounties in exchange for total obedience, even as far as stabbing his own son at a special altar; and then later the instructions of the god are to kill everybody, as only the sons of Abraham should exist; and you can marry your sister cos the rest of humanity is garbage. It soon appears that megalomania is the main player in the drama and the instructions from the god are a great recipe for endless suffering.
I also want to know why Jesus is not Satan if he commands all the demons, as in my experience, and why modern pop stars and politics mongs make a deal with Satan like Abraham does with Jehovah.
@lewis jones…According to the evidence, it appears that Moses was simply a magician, who invoked this entity named ‘Yahvah’, & made some pact with it. Yahvah was simply one among thousands of ‘gods’. It just so happens that the gentiles discarded their various ethnic ‘gods/deities’ & their contracts with them (Baal, Odin, Zeus, Shaitan, Osiris, Dagon, Marduk, Chemosh etc), while the Jews have retained theirs over the centuries, and getting the gentiles to adopt the Jewish god as the only god; thus the occult principle behind their power over all peoples.
In their attempt to exonerate Jehovah, people mistakenly conflate Satan with the god of the Jews, inferring that the Jews are Satanists, because of their base immoral behavior. Pop stars/politicians & their supposed ‘pacts with the devil’, is probably a smokescreen for their real ‘pacts with Jewish tycoons, movie/record company producers’, aiding their rise to fame & wealth. The source of all religions in the ancient world, was magic/shamanism, and an interaction with entities/extraterrestrial from other planes/dimensions of existence, some ‘good’ or ‘evil’, depending upon one’s ‘morality’. Jesus doesn’t have to be ‘Satan’ to command demons, for occult literature reveals that through grimoires, any wizard or sorcerer can conjure up & command demons as well. Check out the book ‘Jesus the Magician’.
To Nico X–thanks for your reply. I will of course be searching for understanding all the time.