A Christian cannot vote for Geert Wilders' anti-immigration party PVV, say 75% of church leaders in a poll of 1,200 ministers and church workers in the Nederlands Dagblad.
The ministers represent a cross-section of all the Netherlands' Protestant churches, representing 2.3 million people, the paper says.
One third of the people polled said there were people who supported Wilders in their communities and 5% said Wilders had a lot of support.
'Wilders and the PVV's views contradict Christianity,’ one minister told the paper.
Whatever these people are vicars of, it isn't of Christ: Christianity is not a cultural/social suicide pact.
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Whatever these people are vicars of...
Well, considering this is modern-day European Protestantism, their doctrine can probably be sboiled down to "God wants you to be happy and non-judgmental"
I expect that Wilders' Party For Freedom is socialistic and that among the "freedoms" it seeks to preserve is that famous (modern-day) Dutch licentiousness, which is rather a different thing than liberty.
However, that's not what these so-called vicars are condemning it, and him, for. On those scores, most of them are right on board.
I expect that were there an actually existing Dutch party whose policies-as-a-whole did accord with Christianity, these so-called vicars would not be saying that Dutch Christians have the moral duty and obligation to vote for that party.
No, these so-called vicars are condemning Wilders precisely for the part of his party's platform which does accord with Christianity: the preservation of the Dutch people and culture as a people and culture, and the continuance of the Netherlands as a sovereign state.
Seems these fools suffer from the same disease that rowan williams in the UK is suffer from. Perhaps they should join him and revert to islam.
I expect they will, eventually.
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