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Tuesday, August 31, 2004

EVANGELIST: EUROPE IS TRYING TO ABOLISH GOD
European House with Millions of Corpses of Unborn Babies in the Basement

By Wolfgang Polzer
Special to ASSIST News Service

MARBURG  (ANS) -- An East German youth evangelist has called on Christians to heed the signs of Christ’s Second Coming. One of the signs is the persecution of Christians according to Lutz Scheufler.

“There have never been as many martyrs before,” Scheufler told a gathering of 1,200 evangelicals in Marburg, August 30. According to the Lutheran evangelist there are two different kinds of persecution - the straightforward repression by atheistic regimes or Islamic forces and a creeping attempt to stamp out Christianity.

The latter could be observed in Western Europe, where secular societies act like democracies, but let the media determine “what one has to believe”. The message of the Bible seems almost non-existent, said Scheufler.

“Christianity has been pushed into a corner and seems to vanish from the public arena.” Its place was taken over by a “democratic religion” with zero tolerance for any higher authority. Scheufler: “Anyone who says the standards of the Bible are universally valid is denounced as a fundamentalist.”

The departure from Christianity in Western Europe was also illustrated by the fact that the EU constitution makes no mention of a responsibility towards God. Scheufler: “We are trying to abolish God.”

He called for repentance in the face of widespread abortion and asked: “How can we build a European house with millions of corpses of unborn children in the basement?”