Posted on 01/22/2005 3:24:37 AM PST by Pharmboy
What do you Freepers think? Especially those ChristianMissionary Freepers? Is the Waco Church out of line?
Oh...one other thing: the picture they chose was a wonderful one and does not help make their case.
http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/s05010103.htm
Friday, January 21, 2005
FROM TEARS TO JOY:
"A report on Norm Nelson’s journey to Sri Lanka"
By Norm Nelson
President, Compassion Radio
Special Correspondent to ASSIST News Service
TRINCOMALEE, SRI LANKA (ANS)
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/1/212005d.asp
"Samaritan's Purse Organizes Massive Tsunami Aid Airlift"
By Allie Martin
January 21, 2005
Americans from a church group preaching Christianity in a foreign land.
Well, I guess there is a first time for everything. ;)
I must have missed the fine print. Did "Go into all the world and preach the Gospel" have an asterisk that said, "not valid in countries with a lot of Muslims?"
Good grief. I'm glad these people get to know about some of the good people in the world that love Jesus and that of his teachings of which commands us to help other people. What is wrong with that? I'm sure if the adults didn't want to listen they could walk out with no strings attached. I'm sure the aid would continue.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1322598/posts
"Summary of Israeli assistance to tsunami disaster victims in Sri Lanka, Thailand and Indonesia".
IMRA ^ | 1-17-05
Posted on 01/17/2005 11:31:06 AM PST by SJackson
"Summary of Israeli assistance to tsunami disaster victims in Sri Lanka, Thailand and Indonesia.
(Communicated by the Israel Foreign Ministry) 17 Jan 2005)"
You're right and ditto.
Here's the flip side:
The Muslim relief agencies have been largely unresponsive and unsympathetic.
You know why?
Because they see the tsunami as just punishment from god for their evil ways. These people must have sinned.
I hope they're there first to provide aid and secondarily to evangelize.
I also hope the (rumored) reports of tying aid to belief are false. That would be extremely unethical, since they have gained entrance to these countries as aid providers, not as evangelizers.
Finally, there should be no mistaking that those who are out to evangelize are going to be met with forceful opposition (particularly in Indonesia, but really, no matter where they practice). Is there anyone who seriously would expect any other sort of reception?
They should offer aid and nothing more.
Ichabod
The worry is that some aid workers will end up butchered.
These liberal propaganda machines pontificate to the big city masses.
The city dwellers that have become like the rats in Skinner's box.
What would one expect from a city that celebrates that there were only 528 murders through Dec. 7, 2004, with 11 of them in a 48 hour period in July?
In fact in 2001, the now deceased newspaper columnist Jack Newfield suggested that a homicide count below 600 would be worth a ticker tape parade.
Though Newfield did not write for the NYT, it shows the "rat in the box" mentality.
There will be no religion for these folks. ;)
I suppose the anti-American NYT would prefer that these people continue to grow up in a culture steeped in the violence and inhumanity of Allah.
This church is doing what they're supposed to. This world war isn't going to be won with bullets and diplomacy anyway- the only hope is mass conversions to Christ. You must attack the enemy at it's root- the doctrine of Islam and jihad.
Yeah, we should just cower in fear of Islam and keep our mouths shut like good Kafirs.
I guess the irony to me is that any time a group of Christians attempts to express Christ they are instantly tagged as being "evil" and "self-serving". However, the fact that other religious groups may participate in the same type of actions is never given a moments notice.
It is no secret that Muslims actively set up their recruiting stations to target orphans and social castoffs in the most poverty stricken regions of the world for the express purpose of conversion to Islam and a future induction into the terrorist hall of fame.
Shame on those "evil" Christians for reaching out with both physical and spiritual healing. Of course, if they just stayed home and built huge buildings and installed better stained glass windows they would really be really evil. The only way they could be "good" (according to the standards of the world media) would be to either donate their money directly to the Red Cross, the U.N. or become disciples of those same organizations.
"I'm sure if adults didn't want to listen they could walk out with no strings attached. I'm sure the aid would continue"...
Your absolutely right.
But some short-sighted folks seem to think that the muslim method of conversion to islam is to be preferred.(that is giving a victims the opportunity to convert to islam before you kill them.)
That's their idea of aid.
the Christian groups that have been in these muslim countries for years, who don't want to step on allah's toes, are fooling themselves.
This door that God has opened in Indonesia will be filled with His word because He has WILLED that some of these people will be saved...
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