Comments on: The Inside story on the war against Christianity

By: Kagollota

Kagollota — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:46:04 +0000

Nothing seems to be easier than seeing someone whom you can help but not helping.
I suggest we start giving it a try. Give love to the ones that need it.
God will appreciate it.

By: Light Warrior

Light Warrior — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:22:25 +0000

Ever since the first Man bit the forbidden fruit has evil ways of the serpent been evident on the planet.. All people get tempted but those who choose dark wicked ways have shown how filthy they are since the begining of time. Those of the Agape light way should pray and give support to our persecuted brothers and sisters. America is a sleeping giant,with to many here are spoiled rotten. More of the Church needs to stand up and become lanterns in this dark world. The last great battle is eminent and only those of the Way,Truth and Light will be standing triumphantly.

By: namakule

namakule — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:33:20 +0000

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By: Paul Salahuddin Armstrong

Paul Salahuddin Armstrong — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 03:34:30 +0000

I’m always sad to hear about the persecution of anyone due to their religious convictions. However, I must stress that Islam does not teach persecution of Christians. Where this occurs it is due to ignorance on the part of those who persecute, and radicalisation of Muslims.

The Al Saud family made a pact with a crazy religious extremist, Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahab. When Saudi Arabia gained its nationhood the Saudi King made Wahabism the official religion of the new country. Since then the Saudis have been rigorously promoting this perversion of Islam. Through their oil wealth, they have influenced how Islam is practiced in other countries, and have desecrated Muslim sacred sites, and graves which don’t fit their narrow minded view of religion.
http://www.sufimuslimcouncil.org/artical4.html

Muslims too have suffered in those countries which have adopted Wahabi doctrines. Wahabis and their spin-offs declare anyone who doesn’t swallow their extreme doctrines as “kafirs” (infidels), even if they are other Muslims. They believe only they are right and everyone else will go to hell.

Wahabism isn’t traditional Islamic teaching. Christians and Jews are called the “Ahl al- Kitâb” (People Of The Book) in the Holy Qur’an. Muslims are taught to come to common terms with Christians and Jews:

“Say:’O People Of The Book! Let us rally to a common formula to be binding on both us and you: That we worship none but God; that we associate no partners with Him; that we erect not, from among ourselves, Lords and patrons other than God.’” (Qur’an 3:64).

We should work together for the common good. Also the Qur’an teaches us to respect Jewish and Christian places of worship which are protected by God.

“…if God had not driven some people back by means of others, monasteries, churches, synagogues, and mosques, where God’s name is mentioned much, would have been pulled down and destroyed. God will certainly help those who help Him – God is All-Strong, Almighty” (Qur’an 22:40)

There have been throughout history, and even today Muslims who work with people of other faiths and certainly wish them no harm. Tolerance, understanding and co-operation are integral parts of traditional Islamic teachings and practices all over the world.

In view of this, please don’t regard Muslims as being anti-Christian. We are not, and anyone who mistreats Christians or Jews is not following Islam, rather they are trouble for us Muslims too.

By: Astra

Astra — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:59:46 +0000

I know this has been said, and as a Jewish daughter of Holocaust survivors my heart goes out to any victim of persecution;
That said however, it strikes me as interesting at the least to claim that there is an ongoing “war on Christianity” when this is the most accepted religion at least in the West, and in the most (note the quotes here) “developed” nations, persecution of other religions (sometimes we call them races too) – well, that’s just every day, it’s even alright. Our (American and Western European) persecution of Muslims has escalated almost to the point of outright communal violence – with this erupting in some instances. So I ask how those who find themselves within the majority in the countries perpetrating this type of hate can consider themselves warred-against while entire swathes of the population are victims of outright violence not abroad, but here in our own neighborhoods and streets and we – the majority – even if we do not condone it outright – by not clearly rejecting it are guilty of it.

By: 1alberich1

1alberich1 — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:48:03 +0000

A war against Christianity? I’m against it. What I am not against -indeed what I’m fervently hoping for- is a bloodless war against all religion. We don’t need a God, hellfire, paradise, Jesus’ love and the promise of eternal life to treat each other with respect in this one and only life we have. Religion does not -repeat: NOT- make us better people by divine diktat.We should find it in ourselves to behave loyally towards our own species and not fight each other hammer and tongs. I’m an atheist and although I cannot say I love every one of my fellow men I am determined to accord them respect and sympathy. It’s as a species that we have become nature’s outcasts, by not hanging together. The animal world must be watching us with pity, if not contempt.

By: hoben

hoben — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 05:41:35 +0000

Whether George Bush is devout or not…only he and God knows.

And I think he cusses.

By: goldenapples

goldenapples — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:53:17 +0000

Peace is preferable. But then again conflict, like anything in life has positives and negatives, and can bring tremendous progress and all the more better if nobody is dying in any given war.
signed,

By: LP

LP — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:00:05 +0000

“Persecution” is not the right word to use when describing the bullying by the media and pop culture against the Christian culture. However, there is clearly a bias led by some sort of agenda (many of the components of Christian living are not in line with consumerist ideology). I think the message of these stories is that Christians living in free societies should be even *better* Christians as they often do not have to fear imprisonment or assassination.

By: Bad

Bad — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 04:01:50 +0000

This part doesn’t fly: “In America, the persecution often is in the derogatory descriptions used by those who oppose Christianity…”

In any way comparing things in America to what religious minorities or Christians in totalitarian societies face overseas is almost insulting.

If you call getting criticized by other people’s free speech “persecution” then I guess just about everyone in America is “persecuted.” But I don’t think Christians in Pakistan will have much sympathy for such trumped up trials and tribulations.