Christian Response to an Orban Speech

 https://miniszterelnok.hu/speech-by-prime-minister-viktor-orban-at-the-31st-balvanyos-summer-free-university-and-student-camp/

 Why am I responding to the speech of some obscure European prime minister? Because he invokes my God and then misrepresents Him.

Orban starts off promisingly with this statement:

'So if you are looking into the future, the most important advice is modesty and humility: you cannot supplant the Lord of History.'

Sadly, he doesn't take his own advice. He goes on to be immodestly proud about apparent Hungarian and Western superiority over the world. Not only so, but he fails to attribute Western successes to our Judeo-Christian heritage. Neither does he acknowledge that there are far more genuine Christians in the likes of China and South Korea than nominal Christians in Hungary and the West.

What Orban does to is to be very materialistic and worldly and bemoan the decline in the West economically.

He then goes on to say that because there's more funerals than births the West is dying and getting replaced by the rest of the world. The answer to the likes of abortion and euthanasia isn't simply to ban it but to repent of it. How about considering that Hungary and the West's decline isn't solved by having more kids, but by repenting of the likes of pride and racism?

I believe the decline of the West is God's way of telling us to return to Him, rather than to proudly and arrogantly go our own way.

Orban starts to get racist when he says that Europeans shouldn't mix with other races. Firstly, the only race is the human race. Secondly, God created us all via Adam and Eve. Europeans aren't more evolved than others.

As the husband of an African, I clearly find Orban's racism personally offensive. He should read Numbers 12 and pray he doesn't get leprosy!

He then talks about the repulsion of Islamic invaders in Medieval Europe. Praise God that this happened, otherwise we'd be living in an Islamic State. Yet he confuses race and religion. Ethnicity is something we're born with and all ethnic groups are equal. Religion isn't equal. Either the Lord Jesus Christ is the Son of God as Christianity claims, or such a claim is the unforgiveable sin, as Islam claims.

Other ethnic groups other than Europeans aren't the enemies; violent ideologies like Islam are the enemies. The answer to Muslim refugees (who are often fleeing oppressive Islamic States) isn't to let them drown in the Mediterranean, but to proclaim the good news of salvation, not in Europe, but in the Lord Jesus Christ.

To be honest, I have some sympathy for Orban's anti LGBT etc. stance. God defines gender and marriage, not some loud lobby group.

Also, Orban has a point about the fact that flooding Ukraine with weapons is only going to perpetuate the conflict. I don't have any time for Putinesque apologetics though. Do we pity a bear that lashes out because it might feel threatened? Putin is the instigator of this aggression (although the West seems happy to perpetuate it by throwing weapons at the war as though that's going to do anything other than drag it out).

Orban may have a point in complaining about European imperialism. Yet if he has a problem with it, why not lead a Hu-xit from the EU?

He then returns to his economic pontificating which just strikes me as greedily and enviously comparing Hungary to other European countries.

To conclude, Orban recognises some problems (economic, social, religious) which I sympathise with. He invents a problem with ethnic diversity. And his solutions are all wrong. The solution isn't political but spiritual. We need to turn to the Lord of History in repentance and faith.