Police in the UK have told the owner of a Christian café to stop displaying Bible texts on a video screen, because it breaches public order laws, according to Christian.org.
Wow. Western civilization no longer has to point to the metaphorical slippery slope. We’ve slipped down the slope so far that now we’re just reporting on what the thud sounds like.
I, once again, quote Russian poet Tanya Khodkevich who was sentenced to ten years by the Soviets for writing this:
You can pray freely
But just so God alone can hear.
What happens if this cafe owner persists in displaying Bible quotes? Fined until he’s run out of business? Jail?
Western civilization is headed straight to hell folks. We’re just arguing about how many seats are in the hand basket now.
October 5, 2011 at 9:03 am
This was simply the police responding to a complaint – they have no choice about that, and you would support them for helping you out. The whole thing has been blown out of proportion and badly misreported.
As for the other comments here, Christianity is one of a large number of religious sects that worship a one god, shock! horror! Christians worship exactly the same god as Jews and Muslims!
More people have died and been injured in wars promoting one practice of worship over another than anything else in history.
Maybe in this age people are starting to realise what a myth ALL organised religion is. Religion is not intended for your good, it is for the good of people who want to exert control over others. Any benefit you get is purely coincidental and a small sweetener for submitting to the control of others.
October 6, 2011 at 8:52 am
One of the reasons I left the UK and came to China….
The problem with the UK is that we are afraid of upsetting minorities! We stop selling poppies on street corners because we are afraid of upsetting Muslims, yet we have been selling poppies for over 85 years and whilst it reflect somewhat to do with present conflict it has more to do with the 1914-18 conflict.
If this was the same cafe displaying Islamic texts then I can guarantee there would be no problem at all, even if there were complaints from Christians the police would still be too afraid of breaching the cafe owners right of speech or human rights!
UK GROW A BACKBONE, I AM ASHAMED TO CALL MYSELF BRITISH!!!