[E Rocc]

Franklin's group ought to be banned.

The SBCs can go in if they refrain from making stupid public statements about "evil and wicked religion," "moon god," and "paedophile."

I thought we were trying to build peace, not start a whole new level of war. Catholic groups would be fine, relations between the RC Church and Islam are at least respectful.

-Eric

[Gargantua]

Stick a sock in it, Kermit.

[k2blader]

I thought we were trying to build peace, not start a whole new level of war. Catholic groups would be fine, relations between the RC Church and Islam are at least respectful.

Are you by any chance a professed Christian?

If not, then that explains it...

[BlackVeil]

Roman Catholic charitable works are already undertaken in Iraq, and have been for decades. Usually on a small scale, by religious congregations. There are also protestant Iraqis - of the Evangelical Church in Baghdad, and the numerous Orthodox.

It doesn't say so in this article, but one of the consequences of these particular American Christian groups operating freely is that they are extremely hostile to the Eastern Orthodox Christians. I have heard them refer to the Orthodox as "not just a non-Biblical church, but a Bible-hating Church." The evangelicals understand it to be their duty to distribute the KJV, to inform Eastern Christians that their version of the Bible is not right, and to generally cause as much dissention as possible.

The Islamic authorities are not as hostile about the American Evangelicals as you might think. After all, they have long proclaimed, in the face of Christian claims, that there are several different versions of the Bible, and that the sects of Christianity have no common text. When the Southern Baptists come to town, there is a chorus of "I told you so!"

[Cronos]

I'm a Catholic but I don't really care WHICH Mainstream Christian sect the Iraqis come back to, as long as it is, quote Christian