Posted on 01/07/2015 6:48:22 AM PST by LeoMcNeil
Islam is fake religion invented by Muhamad to gain power. it’s a bunch of lies and a threat to freedom
Islam is a perfectly genuine religion. I personally believe it to be false, but it’s still a religion.
God help western civilization BECAUSE it’s still shocked that this kind of thing happens.
The goal world domination
Obama has been busy releasing terrorists. Every terrorist act now belongs to the Democrat Party.
“Parisians are understandably shocked over this barbarous act of terrorism.”
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How can anyone be shocked by these muslim atrocities? We’ve been bombarded by one evil act after another for as long as I can remember. These barbaric acts will continue until governments recognize that islam is not compatible with civilized societies.
Civilized people should be shocked when these barbarous attacks take place, particularly if they take place within a city where we live. Should we be surprised that these attacks take place? Probably not considering they happen routinely. However, just because they happen often doesn’t mean they aren’t shocking when they occur.
I was channel-flipping this morning, because often CNN has better coverage of international events......Amanpour was on, once again doing her mohammedan apologist spiel.
Hey all of you American newspapers, you’d better cut down on your muzzie criticism and start puckering up.
And, y’all congress critters, say some nice words about the ROP.
FLASHBACK: Obama 2012: ‘The Future Must Not Belong To Those Who Slander The Prophet of Islam’
I agree Islam is more than “just a religion.” Though it’s fair to point out so was Christianity up to about 500 years ago.
But that it is “more than a religion” does not mean it is not a religion. It meets every logical, linguistic and legal definition I’ve ever seen.
To exclude it from legally be a religion would require redefinitions of the term, and then giving some government agency the authority to decided which groups do and do not fit the definition.
This would be a really, really bad idea.
Christianity was all encompassing in Europe until the last 200-300 years. The move away from the faith has been more pronounced in Catholic countries. The 16th and 17th centuries saw protestant , particularly calvinist, countries followed various confessions (westminster, heidelberg, begic etc) in and out of government. The biggest break, unfortunately, occurred in the United States with our Godless Constitution. Followed by France with their godless French Revolution (France arguably fell away permanently at the St. Batholomew’s Day Massacre) From there fell the rest of Europe which culminated in the godless World Wars and modern secularism which recognizes no God and has no concept of the danger of Islam.
Yes absolutely... It’s false, NOT fake.
I've noticed this myself. Not, IMO, so much that they move farther away, but rather that the move is so fast when it occurs.
Not very long ago at all Spain, Ireland, Portugal, Italy and Quebec were all strongly religious and Catholic.
They are all now among the most post-Christian countries on earth. This seems to have happened much faster than equivalent movement in Protestant countries like Sweden, England, etc.
To be fair, the movement started for the most part earlier in Protestant countries.
The shift happened in Catholic countries first. France in particular shifted away from religion in the 18th century, so did southern Germany and Austria after the 30 years war. Protestant Germany remained largely Christian until the 19th century, the same can be said for Britain and The Netherlands.
The only countries today where any form of the Christian faith is strong is Poland, Ireland and Northern Ireland. Unfortunately these countries have largely stuck with the faith for political reasons. As those political reasons die away, so does the Christian faith. Which of course means their faith isn’t very strong and is little more than an extension of political views.
France remained heavily Catholic through the end of the 19th century. The anti-religious elements of the Revolution were largely imposed on a still mostly rural and religious populace by the people of Paris.
The Commune was crushed the next time they tried this.
It would have made some sense for southern Germany and Austria to go anti-religious after the 30 Years War, but I have never seen any evidence they did.
I think you’re confusing elite and literate opinion with the people. For a century or so it was fashionable to be anticlerical in these countries, but even these folks were largely scared back into the Church fold by the Revolution. The peasants, most of the population, never left.
As an example, Austria was still heavily Catholic in the 30s, when a Catholic dictator ruled until dethroned by the Nazis. Same was true in Bavaria, where the Center Party, explicitly Catholic, was utterly dominant until the Nazis took over.
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