quotas from Steve

"First is this stupid insinuation that to be critical of the USofA you should simply move off to another country because you're obviously not grateful for the freedoms this government gives us, as is our liberties were derived from the State.

On top of that, it's a ridiculous lie to say that we have special liberties in America we wouldn't have in other countries. Sure there are a few countries where Christians are actually persecuted (not called names), but every Western country has the same liberties Americans have. We don't hold liberty hostage in this Union.

But we should also realize that the US church is dead. Missionaries from all over the world actually come here! Christians come here and sit in our church buildings and weep over our excesses. We feast while the world starves. The Church in other parts of the world is praying persecution will come to the Church in America.

And the problem is because we don't think there's a world outside our borders. This is something I noticed when I was overseas: the news channels actually showed cities in other parts of the world. This was especially evident in weather reports. US weather reports has a map of the USA floating in space without anything outside the borders.

But what's worse is the Church in the US thinks Jesus is American, and theology is American, and the Church is American. This is not true. The majority of the Church is not in America. Yet where are the Indian theologians? The African theologians? The women theologians? Why does the American Church marginalize the congregations from the rest of the world?

And who really cares about these bogus "liberties" we get from the State. If you want to be free, you can only find this in Christ. "Free indeed!" The Churches in persecuted parts of the world may be oppressed, but I'll tell you one thing, they are FREE!"