Posted on 02/21/2015 10:45:40 AM PST by Oldpuppymax
ISIS has released a videotape of the public beheading of twenty-one Coptic Christians somewhere along the coast of Libya. I hate to admit it, but I didn’t even know what a Coptic Christian was. So I looked it up. “Coptic” means “Egyptian” and Christians living in Egypt identify themselves as Coptic Christians. Pretty simple.
Copts were organized between A.D. 42 – A.D. 62 and consider John Mark, the author of the Gospel of Mark, to be their founder. Over the years, Egypt fell under the colonial rule of Italy which demanded loyalty to Roman rulers. The Copts refused to show allegiance to any but the Christ, so the usual persecution took place.
In A. D. 641, Coptic Christians were rescued from the Roman Empire by fellow Arabs who demanded adherence to their Islamic faith. The Copts went from the frying pan into the fire, for as we have seen, the consequences of refusing to accept Islam are rather severe. Not surprisingly there aren’t many Coptic Christians left.
Since the Arab Spring uprising in Cairo, things have not gone well for the Copts in Egypt. In fact, the 21 Coptic Christians murdered by ISIS were...
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Say “Christians” and Soetoro’s eyes glaze over.
Obama won’t ignore them if he can kill them.
0 hates Christians and doesn’t mind when his buddies rape and kill them.
Rand Slams Congress for Funding Egypt's Generals: 'How Does Your Conscience Feel Now?'Sen. Rand Paul is hammering his fellow senators for keeping billions in financial aid flowing to Egypt's military -- even as Cairo's security forces massacre anti-government activists. [by "anti-government activists" is meant church-burning Christian-murdering jihadists][Posted on 08/15/2013 5:44:10 PM PDT by Hoodat]
I always think of the Copts as Ethiopian. Very beautiful traditions and rituals in that church.
They are not a Protestant denomination from the 1500 s.
So they were in Egypt and other places 600 years before Muhammed started Islam in the early 1500s._Tom
Obama, putting the Pu$$y in POTUS since 2008.
The Copts split from the rest of the church at the Council of Chalcedon in AD 451.
Correction - Muhammed started Islam in the early 600s not in the early 1500s. -Tom
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