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**scoussysows** · 02-19-2009, 01:27 AM

Nothing new here if we are to believe our Lord's words in John 15:18-25. Not in the overall scheme of things, no, but such things would not have been imagined here even quite recently, and so these things do evidence a disturbing change in the climate of thought and an increasing separation of Christians from the society in which they find themselves and in which, not so long ago, their values and beliefs were taken to be the norms of this society, not the despised, ridiculed and eccentric opinions of a marginalised minority as they now seem to be taken to be. Christians have become a 'peculiar people' but not quite in the sense in which that expression was first meant.

02-19-2009, 01:27 AM	#3
scoussysows Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 441 Senior Member	Nothing new here if we are to believe our Lord's words in John 15:18-25. Not in the overall scheme of things, no, but such things would not have been imagined here even quite recently, and so these things do evidence a disturbing change in the climate of thought and an increasing separation of Christians from the society in which they find themselves and in which, not so long ago, their values and beliefs were taken to be the norms of this society, not the despised, ridiculed and eccentric opinions of a marginalised minority as they now seem to be taken to be. Christians have become a 'peculiar people' but not quite in the sense in which that expression was first meant.
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