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Islam vs. Christianity

Posted by dbhalling 9 years, 8 months ago to Politics
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Is there really a big difference?

“Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword” (Matthew 10:34). Or they could re-tell the parable of conflict resolution, which Jesus ends this way: “But those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them—bring them here and kill them in front of me” (Luke 19:27).

One of the big accomplishments of the United States was separation of Church and State or "ethical philosophy and political philosophy", unfortunately many christians and many environmentalists want to break that wall down.

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  • Posted by Technocracy 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Of course there is a difference.

    In New York a proseletizing Muslim would be celebrated.
    In Riyadh a proseletizing Christian would likely be jailed or worse.

    Now anyway, in other times and places the outcomes would be different.

    That is not the question we started with.
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  • Posted by gaiagal 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Michael, unknown to me, I was an Objectivist (with other leanings:) at a very early age. I didn't "discover" Ayn Rand until I was 15 or 16. I can't even begin to tell you the wonder that I experienced when I discovered We the Living, The Fountainhead, and The Virtue of Selfishness. Finally, something that made sense to me.

    BTW, gaiagal has the alliteration that terrangal, or terragal, lacks :)
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  • Posted by ycandrea 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    +1 Well, I was speaking how I view my Christianity and how I believe my Church views it.
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  • Posted by ycandrea 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The book of Revelations in the Bible tells of a great gentile nation that would rise up in the latter days and be blessed and prosper for centuries because they were a righteous people living righteous lives. Then they would slowly go back to the ways of the world and would destroy themselves. The destruction of this great nation is supposed to lead the world to the battle of Armageddon. This is not the exact wording, I am telling it from memory.
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  • Posted by XenokRoy 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Gaiagal,

    you are correct. LDS believes that man is co-equal with god in the fact that everyone of us has always existed in some state. God is simply farther down the path than we are. We work towards becoming like him, the ideal/perfect person.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    radical fools who have perverted Islam - and radical fools who have perverted Christianity. In short Dinos and Rinos and their supporters.
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  • Posted by ycandrea 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Our church does not pass a collection plate and only the Profit and General Authorities of our church are paid a very modest salary. I don't think any of them are getting a 6 figure income. Also, none of the local church leaders are paid anything. They all have regular jobs and careers out side of church.Very little money is paid out to individuals. All members are privately accountable for their tithe as specified in the Bible.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I'm really astounded that you would make such a statement. Violence is the hall mark of Christianity and the Christian faith. And I've got the Purple Hearts to prove it. Who the Aitch Eee Dubya EL you think sent us out to die for nothing? Get real. Or sent the crusaders out to die to line the pockets of a few in the aristocracy of secular and church alike?
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Another way of controlling the vote. Another way of making it meaningless. But if the vast vast vast majority turn their back on the system with a massive ground swell of no confidence.....that opens up minds and the bottom end can be taught to stop feeding the fascists and just ignore them.

    Vote None of the Above by not voting. any other way is a vote for left wing socalist fascism.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    My apologies to LDS in general and you in particular. In picking out names of religions I would want to go to war with as opposed to those types of religions and their sects, schisms etc. that only send us to war I left out LDS as a separate entity. If you want to go to war and survive.....go with Christians, Muslims, Sikhs, Jews of the sabra vaiety, French of the Foreign Legion or Naval Commando variety and LDS who have first put their lives on the line around the world or Eastern Orthodox who did it for decades with zero help from outside the iron cutain. As for those who sent us but didn't go instead waited to hear clink clink clink in the collection plates... kiss my red, white and blue ass. if you ask to which I belong that tells me you are anti-constitution and pro left wing socialist fascist. For you I have a special message. I serve the Constitution. (Here me talkin Ms. Alllen?"

    Seig Me No Heils followers of Plato and his descendents. I do not serve Your Party.
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    Posted by gafisher 9 years, 7 months ago
    You've misquoted and misinterpreted the Bible, as have many who called themselves "Christian" in the past. Avoid the quagmire of moral equivalence and remember that Islamism is very much a political movement as well as a faith.
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  • Posted by gaiagal 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    :) Thank you for the smile - and I agree. I've been a Christian all my life and have never wanted to kill or harm anyone from another religion.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    If I were going back into a war zone I can't think of any faith practitioners I would rather have with me when the bullets start flying than a member of the Christian religion...except maybe a Jew, a Muslim, a Hindu, a Sikh - and so it goes. As long as they weren't draftees.Those most used to war at it's finest are much morel likely to get me home in one piece. Christians who follow Christ's teachings implicitly do not fit in on the battlefields where the other kind send us to fight.
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  • Posted by sfdi1947 9 years, 7 months ago
    I don't think we can say Islam v. Christianity, rather we must say Radical Fools who have perverted Islam to their own purposes with terror. Its all about control, just as the progressives and some RINO Republicans want to impose here.
    If you really look at the UN's Radical, carefully camouflaged and hidden Agenda 21 Project, which, by the way, is humming along nicely, rewriting history books, changing the news & etc. You'll realized there's no real difference, just the flavor of the 'Fearless Leader,' the purpose remains the same, control of the people and all the resources by a select group of authorities.
    There is only one difference, one is, for its own purposes, religiously fanatical; the other is, for its own purposes, fanatically secular.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    If I were going back into a war zone I can't think of any faith practitioners I would rather have with me when the bullets start flying than a member of the Christian religion...except maybe a Jew, a Muslim, a Hindu, a Sikh - and so it goes. As long as they weren't draftees.
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