Why a North Korean toddler's Bible arrest offers a dire warning to America -
2022 Report on International Religious FreedomThe revelation a toddler was reportedly detained in 2009 alongside his or her family members by North Korean officials seemed unbelievable, yet anyone aware of the crisis in North Korea understands the circumstances are diabolical and deadly, particularly for Christians.
This isn’t to say America doesn’t have issues. With humans comes sin and with sin comes individual and systematic malfunctions. But Americans undeniably live better than any other culture in human history, with daily access to tools and resources most around the world can only dream about. And yet we look abroad at places like North Korea and we’re given a grim reminder of what happens when people fail to create — or keep — vibrant and hospitable cultures. We see what happens when freedom becomes a mere figment of a populace’s imagination.
Persecution watchdog Open Doors offers a sobering look at North Korea, ranking the nation the worst place in the world for Christians to live. With 400,000 Christians making up just 2% of the population in North Korea, the religious minority is treated like an enemy within.the nation a “brutally hostile place for Christians to live” and explains the full penalty for believing in Jesus: destroyed lives.
Of course, it would be alarmist to definitively claim we’re heading in that direction, though the erosion of freedom and basic constitutional understanding in America today is, at the least, alarming. North Korean defector-turned-U.S. citizen Yeonmi Park has openly warned she sees perilous patterns unfolding in the U.S. today.
“They were in Manhattan, living in the freest country you can imagine, and they’re saying they’re oppressed? It doesn’t even compute,” she. “I was sold for $200 as a sex slave in the 21st century under the same sky. And they say they’re oppressed because people can’t follow their pronouns they invent every day?”
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