Posted on 08/28/2006 9:47:01 AM PDT by Grig
The release of the Fox News personnel brings up what I think is an interesting moral question. If you give in and 'convert' so you can get back to your family etc., are you violating your true faith?
I don't think anyone can say for sure what they would do under such prolonged duress and I wouldn't judge someone harshly for having a breaking point, but I hope I would resist even to death any effort to force me to deny my faith.
I started a poll on this at FreeDominon, and thought you might want to have a go at it too. There is no poll function here, so you can either register and vote there, or just post a reply here, or just think it over.
The Poll:
You have been kidnapped by radical Muslims who will torture and kill you unless you publicly convert to Islam and participate in a propaganda video with them. Do you intend to....
a) Refuse to convert to help them in any way, even to the point of death by beheading.
b) Resist for as long as you can, but when no rescue comes, go ahead and do it. Everyone (including God) knows you don't really mean it so it doesn't matter.
c) Resist as long as they don't hurt you too much, but when no rescue comes, go ahead and do it. You're not sure there is a God to offend so who cares.
d) Resist for as long as you can, but when no rescue comes, go ahead and do it. God will not be pleased, but you can repent later after you are back with your family.
e) Forget this 'resist as long as you can' stuff, just do it and get the heck out of there.
f) Resist for as long as you can, but when no rescue comes make the video but not 'convert'.
g) Resist for as long as you can, but when no rescue comes 'convert but refuse to make the video.
h) I'de be the one doing the kidnapping you infidel dog!
i) Other (post and explain)
The "forced conversion" didn't bother me all that much, it could be said this was just something they decided to agree to in order to live and be free again.
However...that bit about making sure this didn't scare off other reporters to the Gaza area because "the Palestinians are a beautiful people whose story needs to be told"....I found reprehensible. At that moment, my sympathy for these two dissolved. Now I question where and with who their true sympathies and loyalties lie.
I'd show them some card tricks and show off a transistor radio as my magic voice box, and then become their fearless new religious leader.
"Keyboard hero."
And what does that say of people who can't even muster the fortitude to be a 'keyboard hero'.
Notice that the poll asks what you INTEND, as has been already said, you never know ahead of time, and hopefully never will.
If they had nukes enough to wipe out the usa, and said convert or we launch, would the nation cave in to them? Looks like it would, just as they hope.
...whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.Accepting islam is denying the divinity of Jesus.
On my own strength, I hope I'd choose A. With God's strength, I KNOW I'd choose A.
But if don't convert right there with the gun at your head, you are dead right then, do not pass go...do not collect $200. I'd take my chance with a conversion back to Christianity and repudiate Islam and let the Muzzies try to find me. I would ask for God's forgiveness and being our God, not the devil Allah, he would most likely forgive me for denying him.
I thought that is what Steve and Olaf would do, until their main concern seemed to be that they wanted to make sure the story of the "beautiful people of Palestine" continued to be told. Hmmmm....
Would those "beautiful people" be the same ones who were dancing in the streets and cheering when the WTC went down? My respect for the two also disappeared after they made their respective statements. Though that will not make me give up FoxNews.
Combination of e and i. Tell them what they want to hear then after release publicly taunt them with the fact that I lied to them...after all to them lying in the furtherance of their goals is acceptable, so turnabout is fair play!
Die fighting BEFORE I'm captured. I rather be shot than convert or participate as guest of honor at a beheading video.
CMS...from the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU!!!
1Jo 4:5 They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
1Jo 4:6 We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us.
I'm a born-again Christian and I believe I will go to be with Jesus at the time of my death .. I'm 58 years old and my wife died two years ago .. my only connection to this world is (are) my children .. all of whom are also saved (born-again) and have a like mindedness as mine.
They have shown a peace that I believe only comes from the assurance of having a personal relationship with God .. regarding the 'going home' of their mother.
Yeah .. I think I would spit in the muzzies' faces and witness to them about Jesus and His love and saving grace .. over the increasing volume and frenzie of their Satanic chant.
See ya' in Glory kids .. me n' Mom n' Jesus.
That's really a great post!
e) Forget this 'resist as long as you can' stuff, just do it and get the heck out of there.
Correct me if I'm mistaken, but did not St. Peter himself deny Jesus not once, but three times?
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