Defend your belief: No fight, No flight, but being there.

I was reading a story a friend sent me when I was struck by a phrase he used, ‘It is easy to move someone from his village but very difficult to remove the village in him’. He used it in reference of his friend who could not simple match up with the new status he acquired when he located to the city. At the moment I remembered mentioning in an earlier blog that it is difficult to ignore one’s origins in reference to the ruling by a European court of human rights banning crosses in schools citing violation of freedom.
Though the ruling was not bidding it was received with mixed feelings with the majority saying it was against the very foundations of Europe while the minority celebrated hailing the decision as a landmark in recognizing freedoms. The Italian government vowed to fight the ruling and recently she filed her appeal saying that display of crucifixes has much more than religious meaning in reference to the history and traditions of Italy. http://www.ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/english/2010/01/22/visualizza_new.html_1676596494.html
The debate has been characterized by accusations and counter accusations and it seems it is not going away any time soon. A huge number argue that the presence of the cross does not infringe the rights to adhere or not to adhere to a religion. What continues to appall is that the Muslims whose rights are supposedly infringed by the presence of the crucifixes have said nothing not even their leaders. One wonders what this silence means. Are they celebrating that finally they are getting another loophole to invade Europe? If not would they have been quiet if it was the banning of their religious symbols?
Whatever the case it remains the duty of the Christians to defend their faith by hook or crook. However, it would be laughable to wage a war while you are not properly armed. The arms of the day would certainly not be the guns and bombs but a real practice of faith. It is not about firing a judge who does not support our view about the cross like it happened in Italy http://www.zenit.org/article-28273?l=english
The best way to fight would be to give meaning to your belief by being defined by it. This way others can have something to reverence and imitate: it is not about flight or fight but about being there, to be counted! By the way how many of the Christians know what the cross means and how do you behave before one? As the Pope said on Wednesday quoting Saint Antony of Padua, in the cross we realize who we are as men, believers or not, it is our mirror. The question is how do you behave before a mirror? http://www.zenit.org/article-28316?l=english