Posted on 11/19/2001 11:54:59 AM PST by Stand Watch Listen
For once you are near truth: when the religious are in charge, they make hell. Unfortunately for you, all the best examples of how vicious and sickening they can get... are in the Middle East.
I'm sure that will come as a great comfort to the Christians in the Middle East who have converted from Islam.
Sorry, but neither practicing mormons, muslims, or Jews worship Almighty God:
The haters of the LORD would pretend submission to Him, but their fate would endure forever.My Lord Jesus, who is God in the flesh, says "whoever receives Me, receives not Me but Him who sent Me." Likewise, whoever denies Him will be denied by Him.
E.g., Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Hitler, Castro, and Kim Il Sung. Evil religious nuts are the bane of our existence.
I have inquired into the "Faith comes by hearing" mission effort. They are in muslim countries right now proclaiming the Good News that God came in the flesh. When a muslim in one of these countries converts, he is very often beaten by his "friends" and "neighbors" or even killed. A muslim converted to a saving relationship with Christ, who has counted all things in this life rubbish and loves God more than his own life, face great persecution. If you like, when I find where to send money I can send you a FRmail.
From my cultural perspective, paedophilia IS rape. Your perspective is different?
In this country as well, young women married much younger 200 years ago (middle teen years). In Delaware 30 years ago, 14 year old's could get married without the consent of their parents.
However not at 6 years old to a 50 year old man. That is and always has been a crime in most all non-islamic countries.
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"However not at 6 years old to a 50 year old man. That is and always has been a crime in most all non-islamic countries."
I'm not sure that Islamic countries would view this any differently than we do - most of them anyway.
Herein lies much of the problem--"according to Muslim belief" they worship the same God. However, the same thing is often said by those who hold to New Age beliefs. In fact, many New Agers even insist they follow Christ. But when one examines who they believe Christ to be, it is immediately apparent that they do not in fact follow Christ. In the case of Muslims, they follow the writings of Mohammed, someone they insist is a prophet (or "the prophet") of God, yet this prophet is clearly not a true prophet in the Christian or Jewish faith. If one follows the teachings of a "false prophet" then does it not also follow that they in fact follow a "false god?"
I really should know more in order to deal with this question more knowledgeably, but I guess my main point is that we need to learn to be discerning about these issues. Particularly, we need to go beyond the claims of a particular religion and examine the truth of that religion according to the principles and objective truth of our Christian religion in order to determine whether or not the two religions are related.
Also, I think there is more than just the Qu'ran that forms the basis of Islamic beliefs--it's a place to start, but there are other books they follow in addition to that that need to be investigated.
-penny
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