On today’s “Faith and Freedom” radio broadcast, Matt Barber and Mat Staver discussed a recent report from Open Doors USA that found that most anti-Christian persecution happening around the world is occurring in Muslim nations.
Barber, of course, used this as an excuse to trot out the standard Religious Right claim that liberals and Muslims are both persecuting Christians at home and abroad because both groups hate God’s truth. But the point of the broadcast today was to discuss why American Christians have remained silent while their Christian brothers and sisters around the world have suffered brutal persecution and Barber didn’t really know … but he did know why President Obama hasn’t spoken out: because he hates Christians:
Staver: it’s one thing to criticize the administration but it’s another thing about the church itself. Where are the voices of Christians here in the United States rising to the level of saying that this Christian persecution needs to be addressed?
Barber: Let’s parse this out because I think that there are different motives here. When it comes to President Obama, as we discussed in a recent recording of Faith and Freedom, it’s pretty clear; for him to criticize these Muslim nations for killing, for murdering and torturing Christians, it doesn’t fit the narrative. We know that his sympathies lie with these Muslim nations and against Christianity and against Christians and so it’s not surprising that he would choose to be silent. I’m disgusted by it but I’m not surprised by it.
I’m baffled by the silence of the church, as you mentioned, here in the United States and I don’t know what the motive of that silence is other than perhaps fear or apathy and it’s time for the church to get behind and support these Christians who are being martyred across the world.
So President Obama hasn’t spoken out about this persecution because he hates Christians, but Christians haven’t spoken out about it either … for who knows what reason?
We also like to simply note that neither Barber nor Staver have said much, if anything, about this issue in all the years we have been listening to their programs. If Barber is “baffled” by the silence of the church in talking about this issue, he just so happens have a daily radio broadcast and a weekly column that he could be using to combat that, but over the last few years, he apparently hasn’t felt that it was much of a priority.
