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For if crime and disease are to be regarded as the same thing, it follows that any state of mind which our masters choose to call 'disease' can be treated as crime; and compulsorily cured. It will be vain to plead that states of mind which displease government need not always involve moral turpitude and do not therefore always deserve forfeiture of liberty. For our masters will not be using the concepts of Desert and Punishment but those of disease and cure. We know that one school of psychology already regards religion as a neurosis. When this particular neurosis becomes inconvenient to government, what is to hinder government from proceeding to 'cure' it? Such 'cure' will, of course, be compulsory; but under the Humanitarian theory it will not be called by the shocking name of Persecution. No one will blame us for being Christians, no one will hate us, no one will revile us. The new Nero will approach us with the silky manners of a doctor, and though all will be in fact as compulsory as the tunica molesta or Smithfield or Tyburn, all will go on within the unemotional therapeutic sphere where words like 'right' and 'wrong' or 'freedom' and 'slavery' are never heard. And thus when the command is given, every prominent Christian in the land may vanish overnight into Institutions for the Treatment of the Ideologically Unsound, and it will rest with the expert gaolers to say when (if ever) they are to re-emerge. But it will not be persecution. (CS Lewis - The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment - God in the Dock)
La lettre de Corrie Ten Boom aux Chrétiens (1974)
(Ce qui a été c'est ce qui sera - YouTube - 11 mnutes)
1974 Letter Regarding Persecution
Porte de L’espérance International (France)
The Voice of the Martyrs
Persecuted Church
Pour en savoir plus sur le Laogai (l'équivalent du Gulag soviétique) où un grand nombre de chrétiens travaillent dans les camps de travaux forcés voir le Laogai Research Foundation
Islamic Violence on Christians in Turkey.
(YouTube - April 2007 - 7 min.)