Comments by "janburn007" (@janburn007) on "CBN News" channel.

@Commander-Rem If members of the public in the audience cannot tolerate the views of someone who sees things differently to themselves - then surely they themselves are the intolerant & bigoted ones. They do not have to stand there & listen if they are offended - they can simply leave. No-one is forcing them to accept or believe what the person is preaching.
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@Commander-Rem If people in the audience cannot tolerate the different views & opinions of others (like a Christian preacher) - then they are the ones who are being bigoted & intolerant.
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@Commander-Rem The Bible supports inclusiveness - to a point. Jesus met with many kinds of "sinners" - but in all cases he effectively told them to go away & "sin no more" if they wanted to be a part of God's kingdom. And some people that he met were clearly not prepared to do that. He never told people that they could be accepted just as they were, if they just went on sinning - they had to transform their lives & stop being so sinful. Christians are obviously far more tolerant than those who are wanting to have them arrested & locked up for supposedly having offended someone. When was the las time you heard of a Christian having someone arrested for causing them offence? Yet Christian people are regularly offended - but don't seek to have those offenders arrested by the police. Though maybe they should start doing that - reporting people to the police for having offended them & getting the police to arrest the offenders & put them in gaol & pressing charges.
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Everyone should have a basic right to freedom of speech & freedom of religion in the UK - but unfortunately things like this are getting very bad in the UK - specially when you have people getting arrested for things like allegedly silently praying in their heads outside an abortion clinic. I mean, how is anyone going to be able to conclusively prove beyond a shadow of a doubt in a court of law, what people may have been doing/thinking silently in their heads? To the best of my knowledge - no-one has yet been able to create a mind-reading machine. Probably the closest the authorities could come to something like that would be a lie detector machine, to try to determine whether someone was lying about their claim to have been silently praying or not silently praying in their head at the time. And when it comes to claims of people having been caused distress by what others may be saying - it all only goes in one direction - & that is against the Christian preachers. No-one ever stops to think that Christians may find the views & opinions preached by other people, as being highly offensive & distressing, especially in a traditionally Christian country such as the UK. And Muslim preachers can also often be seen out in public places with their dawah stands & handing out their leaflets & talking to people - but we never hear about any of them being arrested for having caused offence to members of the public on the streets. I wonder why that is? Are only Muslims & members of the pro-abortion & LGBTIQ+ communities allowed to be offended, but not practising Christians for some reason? It really is getting to be quite a ridiculous situation in the UK with believing Christians being persecuted for their beliefs.
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It's usually the people who shout the loudest that they want tolerance, diversity, & inclusiveness, who are the least tolerant of all - like those in the audience who had him arrested & the police who put him in a gaol cell. Now that he has been exonerated for all of those arrests, he needs to have all his equipment returned by the police & charges pressed against those in the audience who were stealing his equipment. He also needs to have his fines refunded & be fully financially compensated for all the other penalties that were previously imposed on him - such as all the hours of community service he did & all the hours that he spent locked up in police cells & the authorities need to reimburse him fully for all of his legal costs. And maybe some additional compensation for any damage this process may have caused to his personal reputation. It seems the UK is fast becoming one of the most intolerant countries in the world, when it comes to people publicly expressing their faith-based views. Genuine tolerance applies to ALL views - not just those we happen to agree with. On that basis, Christians would have to be some of the most tolerant people in the world - at least Christians are not the ones going around getting people thrown in gaol & dragged before the courts for holding different views. No - it's only the intolerant masses who are doing that - while at the same time claiming to want tolerance & diversity. It seems that Christians are required to be tolerant of everyone else - but people are not required to tolerate Christians - so it's a very one-sided & intolerant kind of "tolerance" that is presently being promoted by the ignorant masses in our present day society.
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@Commander-Rem Not at all - there are often Muslim preachers & other Muslim activists with their "dawah" stands out in the city centres, talking to, & handing out leaflets to, members of the public. And I'm sure a lot of people find some of their teachings very offensive - though I've yet to see any of them actually arrested & put in a gaol cell overnight. They must have some special sort of exemption with the local authorities. Or if not, then maybe next time they approach me & talk to me & hand me a brochure, I should call the police & tell them I'm in a lot of distress, because their beliefs have caused me great offence - & maybe the police will come & arrest them & put them in a gaol cell & press charges against them. And yes - the Bible does say "go ye into all the world & preach the Gospel" - & that is why many Christian preachers do street preaching.
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@Commander-Rem Islam preaches exactly the same things as Christianity re abortion & LGBTIQ+ issues - yet they are not arrested.
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