Sunday Soup

Last year your faithful correspondent brought to the reader's attention tow porcine related items from Great Britain. One had to do with a woman who owned a collection of novelty ceramic pigs which she displayed in her front window. The problem arose when the local Mohammedans, passing by her house on the way to the local mosque, complained that her display was offensive to them and demanded that she basically redecorate her house. The second involved an English bank which quit giving out, to new customers, piggy banks as rewards for opening new accounts for fear of offending the local sons and daughters of Allah.

The madness continues: Muslim Imam Objects To Year Of Pig Greeting Cards - World News - Playfuls.com Now, before the reader clicks on the link, he or she should be aware that the nation in which this protestation takes place is Taiwan. Most of the people in Taiwan are ethnic Chinese. The year that the West calls 2007 is what the Chinese and Japanese call the Year of the Pig or the Year of the Boar. The designation of this particular year, among the Celestials, goes many, many years back before the advent of the Arab trader called Mohammed, and yet an imam with probably no more than fifty slavish and not too bright adherents, demands that the Chinese ignore a tradition that goes back more than 2,000 years. If yours remembers correctly, the last time the Year of the Pig came around in 1994 there was no protest from anyone, Muslim, Buddhist, Christian, Hindu or Jew. This is not a good sign for the future. The Sons of Allah have decided that they can now pitch a bitch and not be laughed out of town. And that's not a good thing for the West nor the Far East.

The homosexual lobby has been working overtime the past few years to make homosexuality a norm rather than an exception. The media and chattering classes, being ever sensitive to the needs and wishes of the "oppressed" have gone along with this nonsense. The result has been such abominations as the "metrosexual", Will and Grace and such school textbooks as "Heather Has Two Daddies." Several "Christian" denominations such as the Methodists, Presbyterians and Episcopalians have gone along with this nonsense in the name of inclusion while driving away the most devout Christians in their various denominations.

Be it known that some Christians who have suffered under the arm of real persecution, have taken a stand against the homosexualization of the nation and the culture: The Seattle Times: Local News: Gay-rights foe finds new allies in Slavic churc . This past summer in Sacramento, California, the gay lobby was complaining about Russian Protestant immigrants protesting the teaching of homosexual values in California state schools. This is the type of thing that makes one wonder whether the adherents of Our Lord Christ, whether Protestant, Catholic or Orthodox, do not thrive under oppression. Could it be that we American Christians have become fat and lazy and so fond of our TVs and RVs and Girls Gone Wild videos that we have forgotten that the Faith is not a guarantee of comfort and safety in this life, but is rather an assurance of persecution here and Glory in the here after?