New Zealand Hostile to Christian Churches

Timothy Birdnow

New Zealand,  a low, sparsely populated country with little to fear from the Wuhan virus, has finally decided to reopen. Oh, but not churches!

From Lifesite News:

The legislation has now made it through all three readings in Parliament and has been granted Royal Assent.

At the last minute, funerals were granted a small carve-out allowing a maximum of 50 people to gather for no longer than two hours. More significantly, the revised measures that were supposed to be in full force for two years will now be up for review every 90 days.

The legislation, known as the COVID-19 Public Health Response Bill, was allowed to pass despite a public outcry, interventions by some members of Parliament — including the launch of a petition — and a joint effort of New Zealand Catholic and Anglican bishops urging the government to increase the limit on attendees at religious services.

Destroying Christianity has been one of the cornerstones of the Liberal/Progressive project for as long as those entities have existed. The 18th century British philosopher (and one of the early founders of the Liberal movement) David Hume is quoted as saying on his deathbed "my only regret was that I was unable to smash Christianity". And while some of the early Liberals were not in opposition to the Church that pretty much evaporated by the time of Rousseau. The German philosophers were almost entirely hostile to Christianity.

But they have never been able to kill it. They've wounded it on more than one occasion but there has always been pushback, and a renewal of the spirit of the Faith.

Now we are seeing yet another example of the oh-so-tolerant Progressives trying their best to smash the Church of Christ. In the minds of the Left you have to tolerate anything - except Jesus. HE is der fiend, the Enemy.

What does that say about them?  For that matter, what does THIS say about the government and people of New Zealand?

As Dinesh D'Souza argues in "What's so Great About Christianity?" Christianity is the root of all modern civilization, the very cornerstone. Uproot that and you take away the thing which restrains men's appetites and excesses - and leads to disaster. He is so very correct.

I fear we are going to learn that lesson the hard way.

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