Posted on 06/13/2005 6:49:55 AM PDT by Pyro7480
And of course there are all the Scientologists...
Don't like it? Tough! I guess yer religion ain't competitive enough.
Yes people foolishly leave Christianity and people wisely accept it every day as well.
This does not mean that I, like a Hindu, have a desire to burn anyone alive over it.
> Yes people foolishly leave Christianity
I guess you can't cut it in the market of ideas.
Since there are more of us every year, I'd say you're empirically wrong.
Presumably you're an atheist - which is an idea that's been on the decline since the Berlin Wall came down.
Christianity is gaining, by some reports, as many as 5,000 new converts a day in atheist China alone.
Atheists, Muslims and Hindus feel the need to create legal barriers or even prohibitions on Christian evangelization, but not one nominally Christian country bans proselytization by non-Christian religions.
Any Muslim can set up shop in America and preach his religion - but if I go to Saudi Arabia and reach even one person, I'll be killed.
Christ is winning, and if I live to a normal age, the majority of the world's population will be Christian by their own free choice in the free market of ideas by the time I die.
Smackdown.
> Since there are more of us every year, I'd say you're empirically wrong.
And there are even *more* Muslims every year. In a century or two, the world will beMormons and Muslims; everybody else will be as rare and quaint as the Amish.
> Presumably you're an atheist
ERRR.
> Christianity is gaining, by some reports, as many as 5,000 new converts a day in atheist China alone.
And how many Muslims? Western China is exploding (ahem) with converts to Islam. And Falon Gong.
There's a saying in Hawaii: "The missionaries came here to do good, and they did very good".
Outisde of internal growth and forced conversions, there are fewer voluntary conversions to Islam each year than there are to Christianity.
Christians don't reproduce as quickly and don't hold guns to people's heads, yet we're doing pretty well.
In a century or two, the world will beMormons and Muslims; everybody else will be as rare and quaint as the Amish.
Unlikely - since Islam is spread at swordpoint and the West is already beginning to resist, I doubt it. There are maybe 11 million Mormons worldwide. Their missions are spectacular failures - the reason why they can argue they are growing so fast is: (1) larger families, the bulk of new Mormons and (2) the law of small numbers - if Mormons increase by 55,000 in a year it's a 0.5% increase. If Christians grow by 8 million in a year it's a slower percentage increase than Mormons, although the Christian increase is almost 150 times as numerous as the Mormon increase in raw numbers.
And how many Muslims? Western China is exploding (ahem) with converts to Islam.
Not really - what's happening is that the traditionally Muslim Uighur people which had to hide their Islam under Communist atheism is now openly returning to their religion. They're not making many Han converts.
But Christianity is converting thousands of Chinese with no ancestral history of Christianity in Shangai, Hebei, Beijing and elsewhere every day.
There are 150,000 more Christians in nominally Muslim Indonesia this year than there were last year, as well.
This is the high water mark of Islam. Martyrs are dying for Christ in Saudi Arabia, Iran, the Sudan and elsewhere and leaving communties of faithful believers behind them.
They will eventually triumph.
And do you deny that Hindus/Sikhs havent been attacked in the past?
By whom? Australians? I have no idea.
No, you seem to have an agenda is all I'm saying. You seem to collect information on that specific subject. Why? Makes me wonder.
"By whom? Australians? I have no idea."
Read the articles (the links which i have posted) you will get an idea.
"No, you seem to have an agenda is all I'm saying. You seem to collect information on that specific subject. Why? Makes me wonder."
And you (just like many on this thread) seem to have a chip on your shoulder about Hindus/Indians. Why? I know, you hold ALL Hindus responsible for the murder Grahm Stains.
I collect information on a lot more different subject. As for the above links 1 simple google search was enough.
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