Posted on 11/26/2006 12:09:11 PM PST by carolgr
Forgive me for butting in ... but do not fear and do not let Islamofascism make you depressed!
As I have matured in my Christian faith, if there is one thing I have learned is that evil, and suffering, are inevitable in the world. And we Christians are clearly taught to be joyful in spite of this fact, and go about our lives worshipping God and doing his work anyway.
Do I sometimes fear that my 11-year old son will be forced to fight in WWIV against Islamofascist Nazis? Of course. But overall I am overjoyed to be blessed with children and hopefully, lots of grandchildren. In spite of the problems of today.
And in case you think I'm just an irrepressible optimist, here are some worldly facts that will hopefully validate to you that times are not nearly as bad in the world as they have been before:
* Mutually Assured Desctruction, when both the US and USSR could obliterate each other many times over with tens of thousands of nuclear bombs, was far more dangerous to the world over a 3-decade period from the early 1960s until the early 1990s.
* World War II resulted in the worldwide deaths of 60 million people -- 1/3 of them being Russian. The only countries untouched by that war were in South America.
The world was far more dangerous then than now. Yet people still lived, had children, and went about their business. It is not so bad today! So my kind advice to you is to stop worrying and live joyfully.
And of those billion followers, how many live in countries where any other religion is banned or wiped out ? And, how many are children who are not capable of choice ?
Well, take Indonesia with about 200 million. It's a weird mix. Technically about 89% Muslim. But there are some weird muslim strains there that have combined with sufism and hindu and local ancient religions. About 7% is Christian and the other 4% a stew of traditional regional religions and Hindu etc.
Egypt has coptic population, which has lately come under attack. Places like Jordan, etc. have populations of eastern orthodox, which is a very early form of christianity.
The only country that I know of that has essentially banned other religions is Saudi Arabia, but they are an American ally.
You are so sweet, thank you for taking the time to write all that.
You are a truly generous human being!!
God bless!!
J.
Gritty got it.
This is a global economy. Kill a billion potential customers, and this economy is likely to collapse.
That's the problem. I'm no Biblical scholar, but all that stuff sounds like it came from the Old Testament. The New Testament taught us, on the other hand, to be peaceable. I don't know of any "New Testament" in Islam that teaches comparable things.
Ding, ding, ding, we have a winner!!!
Christianity and before it Judaism has been blessed by a number of new covenants and reformations. Islam, if anything, is going backward. Not because of Islam, but because of the predominant Arab culture.
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The problem when dealing with this so-called "religion of peace" is that people don't understand that it is actually the peaceable Muslims who are on shaky theological ground.
Exactly the point we make regularly at The Ponderosa.
If being a devout Christian means following Christ's example, it necessarily follows that a devout Muslim emulates Mohammet's life.
I have yet to receive ANY retort to this, let alone a plausible one.
Would you tell me what you think about a post I made elsewhere. It is post #21 here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1744555/posts?q=1&&page=1
Then again, I'm an infidel who is close to believing that Islam was created by some dude who wanted to boink and/or conquer whomever he wanted and invented a "religion" to rationalize that.
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