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Millions of Muslims Devoted to Our Lady and Eager for Exorcism
AsiaNews ^ | 7/26/13 | Samir Khalil Samir

Posted on 07/26/2013 7:56:13 PM PDT by marshmallow

Fatima, Harissa, Damascus, Samalut, Assiut, Zeitun and many other places where the Virgin appeared are the destination of incessant pilgrimages from Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Iran. Pilgrims in search of physical but also spiritual healing; spontaneous and mystical prayer and not the schematic and formal verses of official Islam. The iconoclast Salafists destroy places of pilgrimage every year. But the devotion to Mary is growing, also fueled by the stories of the Koran. The spiritual dialogue between Christians and Muslims is much more promising than cultural, theological or political dialogue.

Beirut (AsiaNews) - Each year millions of Muslims come on pilgrimage to the Catholic Marian shrines. Not only to the major shrines such as Fatima in Portugal or Harissa in Lebanon, but also to Egypt, Syria, Iran. Muslims - especially Muslim women - go to give thanks to the Madonna or great Christian saints, like St. Charbel or St. George.

In the eyes of many Westerners these gestures seem ridiculous or false: they speak of apparitions, of prayers, but then there are massacres, killings, violence in the name of religion!

Like it or not, the religious phenomenon is alive in Latin America, in Africa, in Asia. When you see millions of Hindus go to bathe in the dirty water of the sacred river it may seem like a ridiculous thing. Yet for those who do it is an act of purification, of prayer. The West is tolerant and benevolent towards other religions, but its attitude towards Christians is increasingly hypercritical. The West is not post-Hindu, post-Islam. It is only post-Christian!

The point is that in the West, the supernatural is considered outdated, it is branded as mythology, illusion, instead the West is forever denouncing the difficulties that neither miracles nor pilgrimages can erase.

But in the rest of the world the spiritual.....

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To: Rashputin
Why do some people worry about the Creation when they don’t accept the Creator Jesus Christ and say that Christianity is a fraud?

Why should I even consider the claims of the "gxd" of a religion that claims that Genesis is a fraud?

If your eyes weren't so blinded you'd see the irony in your criticizing mormons.

141 posted on 07/27/2013 8:16:36 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (What would Yehoshu`a [Bin Nun] do?)
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To: editor-surveyor

Yeah, I saw that. Can’t figure out why the guy is here if he really believes that.


142 posted on 07/27/2013 8:17:37 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: metmom
Defend the integrity of Scripture and look where it gets you.

And the hypocritical b@st@rds who insist one must become a higher critic and an evolutionist in order to be Catholic let Eskimos and Indians keep their totem poles.

Considering that liturgical chrstianity has been rabidly opposed to the Jewish ritual and ceremony for two thousand years, it's no wonder that they would wind up forbidding the stories as well.

143 posted on 07/27/2013 8:20:28 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (What would Yehoshu`a [Bin Nun] do?)
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To: verga; boatbums; editor-surveyor
1) It must be a serious/ grave matter.

2) The person must have full knowledge of what they are doing.

3) The act must be intentional.

Wrong. God tells us in His word that there is unintentional sin.

James 2:8-11 If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well. 9 But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors. 10 For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it. 11 For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

Leviticus 4:1-3 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, If anyone sins unintentionally in any of the Lord's commandments about things not to be done, and does any one of them, 3 if it is the anointed priest who sins, thus bringing guilt on the people, then he shall offer for the sin that he has committed a bull from the herd without blemish to the Lord for a sin offering.

Leviticus 4:13-14 13 “If the whole congregation of Israel sins unintentionally and the thing is hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and they do any one of the things that by the Lord's commandments ought not to be done, and they realize their guilt, 14 when the sin which they have committed becomes known, the assembly shall offer a bull from the herd for a sin offering and bring it in front of the tent of meeting.

Leviticus 4:22-23 “When a leader sins, doing unintentionally any one of all the things that by the commandments of the Lord his God ought not to be done, and realizes his guilt, 23 or the sin which he has committed is made known to him, he shall bring as his offering a goat, a male without blemish,

Leviticus 4:27-28 27 “If anyone of the common people sins unintentionally in doing any one of the things that by the Lord's commandments ought not to be done, and realizes his guilt, 28 or the sin which he has committed is made known to him, he shall bring for his offering a goat, a female without blemish, for his sin which he has committed.

Matter of fact, there are so many other verses addressing unintentional sin, here is a link to the keyword *unintentional*.

http://www.biblegateway.com/keyword/?search=unintentional&version1=ESV&searchtype=all&bookset=1

144 posted on 07/27/2013 8:21:31 PM PDT by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: stfassisi
The core of FR is a worn out rag of fools that bow to America's FF's as if thy were guided by the Holy Sprint in everything they did and think the statue of liberty given by freemason demons is approved by Christ.

Why is it that Catholics can believe in Masonic conspiracies but can't believe that Genesis is historically accurate? That's just plain crazy.

145 posted on 07/27/2013 8:22:30 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (What would Yehoshu`a [Bin Nun] do?)
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To: editor-surveyor
LOL.

With all the lawyers he has on the payroll he may have trademarked or copyrighted that or something.

146 posted on 07/27/2013 8:22:59 PM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory.)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

It does seem to be endemic, does it not?


147 posted on 07/27/2013 8:26:27 PM PDT by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: editor-surveyor; Jim Robinson

How do you like this assessment of FR?

editor-surveyor’s tagline (Freepers: Not as smart as I’d hoped they’d be)


149 posted on 07/27/2013 8:31:51 PM PDT by narses
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To: metmom; verga; boatbums; editor-surveyor
God tells us in His word that there is unintentional sin.

The chata't (sin offering) atones only for unintentional sins. It does not atone for any intentional sin. Not one.

Now I realize that you and I are worlds apart on what we believe, metmom, but you do realize that you're arguing with people here who deny pages of Divinely-mandated battles and killings because according to Catholic philosophy a "good G-d" can't be "a big meanie?"

This is where natural law gets you.

150 posted on 07/27/2013 8:32:21 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (What would Yehoshu`a [Bin Nun] do?)
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To: boatbums

“In Narses’ view “about” pages must pass the modesty test now?”

Still incomprehensible.


151 posted on 07/27/2013 8:34:11 PM PDT by narses
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To: Zionist Conspirator

God never smited a man who didn’t need smitin’.


152 posted on 07/27/2013 8:34:13 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: narses

Can’t we all just get along?


153 posted on 07/27/2013 8:35:01 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

“I knew you’d say something cruel. “

Mind reading now?


154 posted on 07/27/2013 8:35:08 PM PDT by narses
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To: Jim Robinson

I can, easily. I wasn’t the poster who called FR posters names nor originally pinged you.


155 posted on 07/27/2013 8:36:35 PM PDT by narses
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To: editor-surveyor; HoosierDammit; TYVets; red irish; fastrock; NorthernCrunchyCon; ...

editor-surveyor wrote:

It was the year that Israel crossed the Red sea with Pharoah in pursuit.

Everything that Yehova wanted his own to obey was in it. It was delivered on Shavuot.

The King James was written when? What ARE you trying to say?


156 posted on 07/27/2013 8:39:04 PM PDT by narses
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To: narses

>> “editor-surveyor’s tagline (Freepers: Not as smart as I’d hoped they’d be)” <<

.
And you prove it dozens of times a day.


157 posted on 07/27/2013 8:39:36 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Zionist Conspirator
So Jesus Christ the Word made flesh doesn't take His Word seriously?

Let me get this straight, Jesus Christ is an impostor and Christians are all dupes because Jesus Christ thinks Genesis is a fraud?

What makes you think Jesus Christ who IS the Word thinks Genesis is a fraud?

158 posted on 07/27/2013 8:39:50 PM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory.)
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To: narses

I wasn’t placing blame. Just quoting some famous line. Maybe we should all lighten up, Francis.


159 posted on 07/27/2013 8:41:39 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: editor-surveyor; narses; All
Do not make this thread "about" individual Freepers. That is also a form of "making it personal."

Discuss the issues all you want, but do not make it personal.

160 posted on 07/27/2013 8:41:44 PM PDT by Religion Moderator
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