Prosecutor Tells Lutheran Bishop How to "Correctly" Interpret the Bible

A criminal trial against Päivi Räsänen, a grandmother, medical doctor, long-time parliamentarian, and former Mnister of the Interior, and Lutheran Bishop Juhana Pohjola began on August 31 at the Helsinki Court of Appeal.

Both are accused of “hate speech”, a code word for the public expression of Christian beliefs.

The prosecutor argues that it's not a crime to quote the Bible, "You can quote the Bible, but it's Räsänen's interpretation and opinion about the Bible verses that is criminal." In other words: The prosecutor is telling a Lutheran bishop how to "correctly" interpret the Bible.

The prosecutor calls Räsänen's use of the word sin "degrading", because to say that something is sinful is psychologically damaging to the “sinner”, that it must be forbidden.

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Sandy Barrett

Sep 1, 2023

The prosecutor brought no witnesses, there are no victims, there is no jury. She requested the trial take place without hearing from the defendants and without being broadcast publicly. I suppose, if nothing else, that demonstrates some degree of censorial consistency.

Coenobium

Sep 1, 2023

The Finnish public broadcaster which has been asked by the prosecution to remove the radio show Päivi has been charged for stated that: “YLE has a duty to present the opinions of those in power [referring to Räsänen as an politician]. An order by the court to delete the recording from our platforms would amount to a rewriting of history.”

Wilma Lopez shares this

112Sep 1, 2023

The Bible Trial in Finland is the canary in the coalmine. If we don't get a serious grip on free speech in the West, it won't be long before we see more citizens in court for expressing state-disapproved views on Pride, marriage, abortion, child transitioning, women's sports...

Denis Efimov

Sep 1, 2023

Their legal system, like almost everywhere in the world, is built on the false principles of liberalism and secularism, that is, on principles that popes never tired of condemning. Essentially, this is part of the global agenda of international powers, which is masonic, though not in name, but in essence. They have in fact already built a kingdom for the antichrist.

Vincent Capuano

2Aug 31, 2023

That is exactly what is wrong with the neo-pagan world. It does not recognize sin and as a result it cannot recognize the need of a Savior.