Quisling is Twentieth Century nomenclature for traitor taken from the name of a said notorious Norwegian. A villa was honored today, his former manse, as a place for recognition of oppression of religious minorities. A curiosity I'm finding is that the Church apparently isn't a place for minorities. Of course that’s no real surprise actually the south has codified racism for centuries, the seat of this was in the southern church where pew and bigotry got down to the business of separation. The white folks tolerated the black folks if they kept in their place; the shame of segregation was bridged by efforts of Dr. Martin Luther King, which included spilt blood-his own, and the assassination of his person and character.

I say this because I wonder what epithet the word Christian might become as we ease our way into another century with equal aplomb in the treachery department. When the Nazi's invaded Norway, Vidkun Quisling moved into this mansion and became the self-proclaimed collaborative government of Norway, while the elected officials were in exile in London. This son of a church official pillaged the wealth of the Jewish community and condemned a significant portion of that quarter to death. After the peace was established in the wake of War II, he was summarily executed for war crimes.

I'm curious if some future do-gooders will erect museums or some sort of cultural center for the underprivileged, poor, needy, and oppressed at some of the sanctuaries left vacant by Christians. Christians who had better things to do than consider the undesirables among them because they were busy divvying up the spoils of the culture they were called to love.

John