{"id":41883,"date":"2016-11-23T06:45:22","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T04:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.co.za\/?p=41883"},"modified":"2016-11-23T06:45:22","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T04:45:22","slug":"die-reenboog-brand-dominees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/?p=41883","title":{"rendered":"Die Re\u00ebnboog brand Dominees!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In \u2018n onlangse <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/367599-patriarch-kirill-rt-interview\/\">onderhoud <\/a>met RT spreek die hoof van die Russiese Ortodokse kerk, Patriarch Kirill, homself as volg uit oor multikulturalisme: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Multiculturalism has no future, because it implies different cultures mixing, different cultures and religions poured together and shaken vigorously to create a kind of cocktail. That would be impossible because of deep-rooted traditions. If multiculturalism implies weakening people\u2019s connection to their religion and traditions, it automatically makes them victims of discrimination and forces them to be defensive; so this very approach contains a dangerous source of division, and I mean the fundamental division of the brother-against-brother kind. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Vir jare lank al probeer ons hierdie einste boodskap oordra na vriend en vyand. Die idee van \u2018n re\u00ebnboognasie waar al die kleure forseer word om te meng verander die re\u00ebnboog in \u2018n snotstreep teen die plafon. Hierdie is een van die beste beskrywings van die gevolge van die sosiale eksperiment wat tans in ons land plaasvind. <\/p>\n<p>Mens kan nie help om te wonder hoeveel van ons predikante sou dit waag om so stelling te maak nie? Te veel van ons geestelike leiers skram weg van die kultuur-politiese probleme wat hulle lidmate elke dag moet konfronteer. Is hierdie stilswye oor die sake van die dag nie dalk ook een van die kernredes hoekom die kerke leegloop nie? <\/p>\n<p>Dit laat mens dink aan die gesegde \u201cNero fiddled while Rome burned\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWel, Dominees\u2026. Rome se re\u00ebnboog brand\u2026 \u201c<\/p>\n<p>J.S. van der Merwe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In \u2018n onlangse onderhoud met RT spreek die hoof van die Russiese Ortodokse kerk, Patriarch Kirill, homself as volg uit oor multikulturalisme: Multiculturalism has no future, because it implies different cultures mixing, different cultures and religions poured together and shaken vigorously to create a kind of cocktail. That would be impossible because of deep-rooted traditions. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/?p=41883\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Die Re\u00ebnboog brand Dominees!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":41884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,11],"tags":[227,10333,23516,2149,7492,2078],"class_list":["post-41883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c77-briewe","category-s7-menings","tag-anc","tag-godsdiens","tag-lidmate","tag-mandela","tag-reenboognasie","tag-rusland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}