These sorts of initiatives cannot but make one groan. It is
but another case of blind bureaucrats addressing issues far beyond their ken.
The EU is actually quite hostile to religious minorities nor do its leaders
grasp what religious life is. The growing hostility to homeschooling in Germany
and Scandinavia are prime examples of this. You can attend worship services,
though increasingly what you say in them is under scrutiny but the idea that
you would live out your faith is... increasingly verboten.
I'm not speaking as a Dominion minded Evangelical who
believes living out your faith is to exercise political authority. I'm speaking
as a Separatist who is not interested in voting and trying to affect political
structures.
Using the oft-evoked appeal to the rights and needs of
children, Christians are subject to restrictions when it comes to living out
their lives in the realm of the family. Christian politicists are right, the
family as an institution is under assault. That said I do not agree with their
agenda for its remedy.
It will also be interesting to observe the outworkings and
fallout from the growing call to reintroduce military conscription. It's
returning to Sweden and it would seem it stands a good chance of returning to
France. These are but additional burdens placed upon Christians who (if they
wish to follow Scripture) will necessarily reject the claims of the state and
refuse participation as conscientious objectors. Historically European
Evangelicals have been something far less than militant nationalists but the
times are changing and American Dominionism is continuing to reap the rotten
harvest of politicised theology.
What a strange and burdensome time in which we live. Like
Zechariah's opening vision the nations are at peace (relatively speaking),
marching along, even flourishing in their visions of grandeur, and yet Zion
languishes. Even so come Lord Jesus.
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