Posted on 10/15/2001 11:49:02 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
Mr. Limbaugh must read Free Republic.
The thing is, to Osama, Christians and Jews are infidels. The Koran calls Christians and Jews "unbelievers" since they do not accept Mohammad as a prophet. To the orthodox Muslim, you cannot be a legitimate believer in God if you reject Mohammad. Thus, to some Muslims, "Islam vs. Judaism & Christianity" is the same as "God vs. Not-God."
We are undergoing the ultimate test. I pray that we will win.
Yes, and in turn some pundits and "scholars" in the west mistakenly translate this as Jerry Falwell+Osama vs. everyone else. Pathetic.
Christian: “Since I and about 75% of the others in this school are Christians, I would like to begin the school day with a prayer. The prayer is voluntary and only those who wish to participate will pray.”
Atheist: “I don’t want to pray. Prayer as part of the class schedule is wrong. Having most of the class say a prayer when I don’t makes me uncomfortable. So you will stop. If you don’t stop, I will sue the school to force them to stop.”
Taliban: “You will pray five times a day, facing Mecca. Failure to do so will result in being whipped.”
Who is the most tolerant?
No, he must NOT read FR. Or he hasn't read the threads where our own religious intolerants post.
Your attitude regarding this so-called intolerance (which you refer to on Free Republic) is nothing more than what others have recognized as "freedom from all moral restraints". That is, the freedom to do any depraved and evil kinds of things without interference. This is the nature of the "accusation of intolerance" that you speak of. There is no validity to this kind of accusation, with regards to Christianity -- as there definitely is with Islam, it being an evil and false religion.
It's like David Limbaugh says, in that there is no moral equivalency of Christianity to Islam, in that regard.
You are only using "loaded words" (in light of the recent actions of a false and evil religion of Islam), and trying to falsely smear those loaded and charged words onto the righteousness of Christianity, offered by Christ and salvation therein.
You purposefully muddy the waters of "conviction and belief" -- which come from the words of the Bible, from the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob -- in which He says He will prove and vindicate His name in the end. And in the meantime, He offers the free gift (without coercion to anyone [i.e., no beheadings, no killings to force conversion, no force against "free will"]) of Salvation, through His Son Jesus Christ.
You do the same "work of evil", as the Islamics do. In that case, you work for the same "father" of that religion -- the one who spawned that evil religion. You simply work and engage in the same kind of deception and lies that the Islamics do. All who do so come from the same "father of lies" -- the one identified in the Bible as Satan and in opposition to God.
Unless you choose to accept (which is a free will choice on your part) the "free gift" which Jesus Christ offers, and believe in Him -- you will face the same Great White Throne Judgement that the Islamics do. You will face the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob on that day of judgement.
Revelation 20:11-15
11 Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat
on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled
away. And there was found no place for them.
12 And I saw the dead, small and great, standing
before God, and books were opened. And another book
was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead
were judged according to their works, by the things
which were written in the books.
13 The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and
Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in
them. And they were judged, each one according to
his works.
14 Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of
fire. This is the second death.
15 And anyone not found written in the Book of Life
was cast into the lake of fire.
And as it says, "anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire." That means if you have not accepted Christ as your Savior, you will be cast off and thrown into that lake of fire, eternally -- to be separated from God and all that is good -- by your own choice that you have made.
This is the difference of Christianity from Islam. In this you choose, and then you live with your choice from then on -- forever. Choose now and choose carefully. Your fate depends on it.
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