Posted on 02/07/2005 10:09:57 AM PST by conservlib
Fanatics, heretics and lunatics populate the entire planet.
Not one of these organizations, I dare say, is sanctioned by the Christian mainstream, Catholic or Protestant. I would also go so far as to say that they are abhorred by the main.
Self profession does not make one so.
"Fanatical Islam, and its covert support in most of the Muslim world"
My point exactly.
Let the ones who want to declare peace do so and go and live in peace.
Then it's an easy matter of killing all the rest who refuse to say they want peaceful coexistence with others.
Let's address these in order:
* Christian Identity movement
* Ku Klux Klan (A racist Protestant Christian organization. )
* The Order (1980s-present)
All of these are racist groups who pervert the Word to suit their racist and bigoted beliefs. No mainstream denomination recognizes them the same way Al Qa'aeda is recognized as legitimately acting upon Fatwa by the overwhelming and vast majority of Sunni clerics and a measurable majority of Shi'a clerics support Al Qa'aeda as well.
On to the Irish...
* Continuity Irish Republican Army (CIRA) (1986-present)
* Irish National Liberation Army
* Irish Republican Army (IRA) (1916-present)
* Loyalist Volunteer Force (disbanded)
* Orange Volunteers
* Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) (1969-present)
* Real Irish Republican Army (RIRA) (1997-present)
* Ulster Defence Association (UDA) (1971-present)
* Red Hand Defenders (1998-present)
* Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) (May 1966-present)
No Christian denomination claims any of these groups. None.
Then there's your "miscellaneous" groups:
* Lord's Resistance Army (Christian/Pagan/Muslim) (1987-present) (Uganda)
It looks like no one would claim these idiots! "(Christian/Pagan/Muslim)"
Last, but least is...
* Nagaland Rebels (1948-present) (Nagaland)
The Nagaland Rebels are an adjunct of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (India). I think this should say it all.
I will say that I expected you to come up with an anti-abortion group (terrorist/criminals as opposed to conscientious ProLifers) as being Christian terrorists and I was still going to point out that no mainstream denomination supports any of these.
None of your examples compare to Al Qa'aeda, Hamas, PLO, or etc. - all groups who execute the fatwa of Muslim clerics with the collective blessings of their Sunni or Shi'a clerics.
I can find volumes of condemnation of all of the Irish groups by religious leaders, the American racist groups are just idiots, and the African and Indian goups leave me quizzical as to why you have them on your list as Christians when one group is as diverse as the Democrat Party and the other is Socialist.
So where is the one, single fatwa from *any* Muslim cleric condemning the murders of Christians or Jews by Islamofascists?
Just one. That's all I ask to show me that at least one Muslim cleric is all about peace.
Just one fatwa.
Not a note, not a comment to the foreign press, a fatwa.
During Clinton bombing of the Belgrade as the Orthodox Serbs where celebrating Easter, the Orthodox churches NEVER made one comment against that unfair bombing. That is Christianity, and the separation of church and state.
What is it like to never be in doubt? Do you have lots of friends? Do you find you are constantly drawing people to your position or more often repelling them?
Ah, by the way:
"List of self-professed Christian terrorist organizations"
I'm a self-professed Fire-Engine!! Whoo-hoo!!!
That doesn't make me a fire engine.
Google Results:
Results 1 - 10 of about 6,730 for orthodox churches yugoslavia condemn bombing
Looks like your Orthodox pals didn't get the memo about how Yugoslavian churches are supposed to respect 'separation of church and state' in the USA.
Cheeky lot, those Serbians.
Is this a the psychiatric ward
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