‘Error Has No Rights’: Religious Coercion Persists

[Musky]

I didn't see this article posted yet, but if it is, I will remove this topic.

 

Interesting article on Religious Coercion

 

I posted it here because it's primarily about Jehovah's Witnesses

Edited September 20, 2017 by Musky

[jayrtom]

Realy interesting

I liked particularly this paragraph

This persecution is strange. It proceeds even though only 0.10 percent of Russians are Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Russian government has recently honored several Witnesses as outstanding citizens. The suppression has not stopped with confiscation of property and a ban on religious activity. Witnesses have now been ordered to prove that they have renounced their religion by joining combat units in the military. This made Yaroslav Sivulsky, the Witnesses’ Russia spokesman, wonder why “religious extremists” are being ordered to join, for example, the Strategic Missile Troops.

[lezale]

Thanks for sharing.

[Doug]

Very interesting. The explanation that JW's are banned in Russia in order for the government to distance itself from the West is plausable.

I like the point that "error has no rights but people do".