05 Mar '05 15:45>
Kelly Jay,
When I first visited the forums a long time ago everything was ok, so it seemed. I thought I could freely speak my mind, so it seemed. I told people very openly I returned to my original faith, Roman-Catholicism, after 25 years of investigating and researching several other options. This period and the period thereafter was a very difficult time for me for several private reasons. But ever since these liberals, or freethinkers as some of them prefer to label themselves, knew I was a Roman Catholic they didn't stop attacking me. I had to fight and fight and fight to get some room to move here at RHP. They present themselves as "enlightened" and tolerant people, enlightened by reason they claim, but too many times I've encountered from them insults, mud-slinging, intolerant bigotry of the worst kind, sabotaging in sometimes most vulgar ways threads I initiated, etc, etc.
I never encountered such vehement hatred and intolerance in my own country, the Netherlands. However, I learned how to fight back.
Many Christian debaters decided not to post anymore in the forums because of the hostility and bigotry they had to endure. Even children who expressed religious ideas were insulted, degraded and bullied. You can imagine those people didn't have much pleasure in returning to the forums. Many followed their example and that was exactly what those bigots want: to drive Christians away from the forums, they want them to shut up or they want them to adapt to their own liberal ideology, the New Ideology.
Only those Christians, the liberal Christians who do not object to their liberal ideology are tolerated, those Christians that keep their convictions between the four walls of their homes, they are accepted by these self proclaimed Champions of Freedom and Free Speech.
I hope and pray you and others who came forward and in the future will come forward and present themselves as genuine and sincere Christians will have the courage and the endurance to withstand all the hatred and bigotry they will encounter here.
Ivanhoe.
I want to invite every genuine and sincere Christian on the site to tell us about their experiences here in the forums at RHP.
Any thoughts ?
When I first visited the forums a long time ago everything was ok, so it seemed. I thought I could freely speak my mind, so it seemed. I told people very openly I returned to my original faith, Roman-Catholicism, after 25 years of investigating and researching several other options. This period and the period thereafter was a very difficult time for me for several private reasons. But ever since these liberals, or freethinkers as some of them prefer to label themselves, knew I was a Roman Catholic they didn't stop attacking me. I had to fight and fight and fight to get some room to move here at RHP. They present themselves as "enlightened" and tolerant people, enlightened by reason they claim, but too many times I've encountered from them insults, mud-slinging, intolerant bigotry of the worst kind, sabotaging in sometimes most vulgar ways threads I initiated, etc, etc.
I never encountered such vehement hatred and intolerance in my own country, the Netherlands. However, I learned how to fight back.
Many Christian debaters decided not to post anymore in the forums because of the hostility and bigotry they had to endure. Even children who expressed religious ideas were insulted, degraded and bullied. You can imagine those people didn't have much pleasure in returning to the forums. Many followed their example and that was exactly what those bigots want: to drive Christians away from the forums, they want them to shut up or they want them to adapt to their own liberal ideology, the New Ideology.
Only those Christians, the liberal Christians who do not object to their liberal ideology are tolerated, those Christians that keep their convictions between the four walls of their homes, they are accepted by these self proclaimed Champions of Freedom and Free Speech.
I hope and pray you and others who came forward and in the future will come forward and present themselves as genuine and sincere Christians will have the courage and the endurance to withstand all the hatred and bigotry they will encounter here.
Ivanhoe.
I want to invite every genuine and sincere Christian on the site to tell us about their experiences here in the forums at RHP.
Any thoughts ?