Denmark Threatens to Crack Down on Unlicensed Righteousness

If you want to find out what life in the Unites States is going to be like 5 years from now, watch the latest video from Denmark’s Torben Sondergaard, founder of The Last Reformation. I’ll embed it here.

Politicians in Denmark are now suggesting he should be arrested for praying for people to be healed. The crime? Practicing medicine without a license. He says he can be jailed for up to four months if they succeed.

They are responding to documentary makers who claim he tells healed people to throw their medicine away. I can’t think of any preacher who does that. Even the outright crooks are generally smart enough not to try it. Torben says he tells people to go to their doctors after they get healed.

They’re also upset because children have seen him casting demons out. What can you say to an objection that absurd? Denmark is unlike the United States; it’s a Christian country. It has a state church. That means the government’s official position is that Jesus Christ is God. What did Jesus and his followers do in the Bible? They cast spirits out of people. Jesus told people his followers would heal the sick, cleanse lepers, raise the dead, and cast out demons. Christian Denmark appears to want to prohibit people from doing what it admits God told them to do!

Torben says people are seriously talking about taking children away from their parents in order to protect them from TLR. That’s shocking. Imagine what will go through people’s heads when they try to decide what to do with their kids. They’ll have to ask themselves whether choosing to serve God will result in having their children hauled away by the police.

He believes the persecutors want to shut him down because he’s not a licensed minister. He doesn’t have a government license. Foolishly, he thought he could rely on the one he got from God.

I wonder if they license Muslim clerics.

Here’s something we need to admit: most of us don’t really believe in God.

We read the stories in the Bible, and we claim Jesus is God, but when Christians try to do exactly what Jesus said we were supposed to do, we treat those Christians as though they were lunatics or predators.

Why should this surprise us? When Jesus told the Jews, including his own neighbors, that he was the Messiah, their first act was to try to throw him off a cliff.

I don’t know how serious the Danish authorities are about putting Torben in jail or outlawing the basic practices of Christianity. I hope they’re just puffing and blowing to impress the public. Maybe they’re not kidding, though.

Scandinavians are not known for their sense of humor.

Don’t be surprised when things get worse here. You can’t say no one told you.