Dastardly Christians caught worshipping!

Wow, that was some article. As a christian myself, I guess if I had been over there and knew it was against the law in that country, I wouldn't have been having a worship service. I would not part with my bible anymore than I would take off my wedding ring if I went to another country. If it's against the law, I just wouldn't go there. I think everyone should be allowed to worship or not worship as they see fit. For me, the bottom line is it's a personal relationship with a higher authority. No one has the right to tell me who I can and can't have a relationship with. I myself have no interest in spreading christianity. I do on the other hand want to share Christ, but only with someone who is interested to know about Him. It beats anything I've ever seen or heard, fighting over an unseen being, dirt and black goo that comes out of the ground.

Deporting them where? The article's a bit vague on that. Not to the US, I hope. We've far too many Christians here as it is.

Yeah and Saudi Arabia is our friend. Let us read this story and understand that Saudi Arabia is still the country that stones women for walking down a road with a man not her husband or relative. Let us remember that this is the country that would elect Osama bin Ladan as their leader if given the chance.

I'm not surprised. Saudi isn't know for their religious freedoms.

I know this sounds silly. But in Saudi Arabia, Christians know upfront, before going here that this is illegal. This is proof again what is so great about the USA!

Thats pretty sad. Instead of picking on christians,Why dont they go help someone, do something really worthwhile instead of wasting their time and other peoples.? How do they prioritize in their lives?

It does not surprise me. Saudi Arabia does not tolerate Christianity and meetings always have to be held in secret. I know this from people who worked there. I consider myself to be a very tolerant and liberal person but I do have a bone to pick with Islam and Muslims. When entering Western countries they demand full recognition of their religion and customs, which is usually granted, but they do not grant the same to people who come to their countries. From what I have been told the only religion allowed in Saudi Arabia is Islam. I hope this is not the case.

Oh my!!! That's a huge crime !!!! I understand that there isn't freedom of religion in all countries, but if that was being held privately it shouldn't have been a problem, I think. I guess I'm wrong. That's funny, aren't those the same people that come here and demand that we create new rights for them because of their religion? That we change our laws to include their right for their religion? Anything taken to extremes is never good. But of course we have just to look some time back to remember that christians have done the same things as well at some point - the execution and expulsion of the jesuits in Portugal come to mind but much more do as well. We just don't expect that kind of stuff to still happen nowadays.

Many countries want to appear to be tolerant toward Christians and other religions because they don't want to be viewed netatively on human rights issues or terrorist tendencies. It is mostly a PR attempt at appeasing the democratic nations that hold up these ideals. However, many of them are no better than other countries that have been labelled as part of the Axis of Evil, because they do whatever what they want when they think no one is looking.

Just what i thought! One man's speech isnt going to change anything, and the thing is if that man was really in a position to do something, he could have, well if he wanted to though. And i always say freedom of speech, and freedom of religion is just the basic necessities, a free individual can have. Better not limit thier worship just to homes, but rather their hearts, and the best thing....find a better place!

Someday, this might even happen in the good ol' US of A. As long as we're merely teaching tolerance - putting up with people - it could happen one day. We used to teach that we are supposed to honor and love and respect people, even if we didn't agree with them. But that sounded too much like Christian thoughts and could not be tolerated. I'm sure these people thought they were in the safety of a home and wouldn't be bothered. How sad. But...Christians are supposed to be willing to die for their faith.