Posted on 11/05/2007 2:08:38 PM PST by Finally Awake
AMEN
Ha! I married an Iranian woman, whose family were secular Shias. She has converted to Christianity (Baptism) and is since three decades a praciticing and BELIEVING Christian.
You see, it also works the other way round.
Many Turks often don’t look like Arabs. The Turkish Prime Minister is an example, just from seeing him you’d never guess he was Middle Eastern. About half of Turkey is more Westernized (the side closer to Europe) and don’t particularly care for the Arabs. The other side is more diehard Islam-oriented.
Not sure why you thought I would know the answer about Hindus having prayer rooms, but this site confirms such:
http://www.mohyals.com/HinduRituals/
I’d still seek a thorough pre-purchase (no rooms barred) inspection, both for myself and my contractor. I say this because I am not an expert, but just play one on FR.
Because they propose marriage?
Another illustration that marriage in our Western society is an endangered institution.
How many *never-married* men and women between the ages of 25 and 35 do you know? How many divorced or single parents?
The women make a declaration of dependency. Once they do this they have no other choices or decisions to make. Islam does it all for them.
They trade uncertainty for certainty even though the certainty is they give up a great part of their individuality.
Actually, he must have actually loved her, because the koran does not require him to leave her and her daughter, it requires him to kill her and to take her daughter...
It’s because the church has abandoned teaching sound doctrine and settled for the fluffy feel good doublespeak.
No sane and intelligent woman would ever give up their faith in Christ for a life of literal bondage and abuse.
Sorry - it was meant to be a ping to “All” but I didn’t type “All” in there.
Thanks for the info. I wasn’t looking for me, I was just networking, but thanks!
No need for any more posts, this one is perfection. ;-)
Of course, they could get the same thing out of Christianity if so many Christians didn’t roll their eyes every time these women said grace in public or refused to wear painted on clothing.
We don’t do a lot to recognize and support women who need the milk of custom and ritual before they tackle the meat of study and faith. In fact, we do everything we can to make our religion look just like our culture: a social justice wasteland.
No wonder some women are drawn to a belief system that is unashamedly religious. It’s the wrong religion, to be sure, but it admits to being a religion which is more than you’ll get out of the average Episcopal church these days.
My niece, a very bright college girl with a near 4.0 average is fascinated with Moslem men and has dated several, one for a year. I suspect she will marry one eventually, if only to give the finger to her parents(who have forgone much to see her through University of Virginia). I have met some of her beaux. They are all perfect gentlemen of a sort a southern grandma might speak of as being the norm in her youth. I also know a woman who married one such. I went to her non clerical wedding and did not see her again until three years later. Her gentleman turned into a stereotypical Moslem man on the honeymoon trip they made back to Egypt to meet the in-laws. She finally escaped through the consulate but was unable to bring out her 2 daughters.
If more Christian men would step up and dare to be the spiritual head of the household and be strong in their convictions, many of the women wouldn’t feel the need to seek out a seemingly strong man of another faith. Too many Christian men fall into the PC trap and forget that the Bible puts them in a role of leadership and responsibility. Feminism and the “modern” society be damned, God intended for men to be strong and women to be loved and taken care of by the men. Many may try to say it ain’t so, but our instincts tell us what He intends for them to tell us.
“WHY CHRISTIAN WOMEN MARRY MUSLIM MEN”
I’ve know of four cases myself.
Honestly, in those cases (and I know this sounds callous), the “why” can
be explained in two terms:
1. Morbid obesity
and/or
2. A disconnected brain
I’m not blaming the ladies.
The Muslim guys lasered in on these gals.
They knew who to go after in order to get the papers to stay in the USA.
I have long believed that the main reason there are so many abusive relationships, is that many women choose to have relationships with abusers.
For the same reason female guards and female lawyers fall in love with and marry male inmates in prisons.
I could go into great detail,but really you said it all “F*Kng stupid” to marry into a stoneage culture, they are unashamed idiots of towering stupidity.
I know a couple and they were never practicing faithful Christians to begin with and second, they have unbelievably dependent personalities.
Good enough place to bump this thread — because your tagline is an eye catcher.
The WORD of GOD specifically tells us NOT to marry outside of our Faith and that was enough for me.
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