80sU2isBest
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Bama, that's sadly funny and true!
anitram said:Islam views Christians as People of the Book. The unbelievers or infidels it speaks of are polytheists.
melon said:Why fix what ain't broken, U2Bama? The same people who brought America evangelical Christianity also brought us the myth of our Founding Fathers being Bible-thumping Christians. "The Truth"? Who needs "the Truth" when we can just keep on living out 19th century-style Romanticism?
Melon
BonoVoxSupastar said:When it comes down to it every religion believes itself to be "the truth", right? But my question is this. If you are _____ religion and you believe your religion is the only way to God(and let's hope you believe in a loving god) how do you explain the fate of those individuals who live is a distant far off place who have never heard of your religion? Does your loving God ignore those folk? This has always been my issue with conversion. If they believe that their neighbor is going to hell because they don't believe in the same religion as them, then what happens to those who never got the chance to even learn about their religion? The God I believe in, wouldn't leave it to chance like that, so God may come in different forms.
80sU2isBest said:However, you are blind if you do not see that in the media, in the arts and in almost every area of American society, the Christian faith is constantly ridiculed and verbally "spat upon".
80sU2isBest said:However, you are getting off the subject. We are not talking about treatment of individuals. We are talking about the way religions are viewed and portrayed by society, and the fact is that Christianity is portrayed in the media as the buffoon's religion.
melon said:Well, when buffoons represent you, then that's what you get. Maybe we should tell people like Sen. Rick Santorum and Jerry Falwell to think before they speak. They provide easy to quote hysterical sound bites.
Melon
80sU2isBest said:However, you are blind if you do not see that in the media, in the arts and in almost every area of American society, the Christian faith is constantly ridiculed and verbally "spat upon".
FizzingWhizzbees said:
Compared to many other religions, Christians living in Western countries face no persecution whatsoever. You talk about the portrayal of Christianity in the media, well last week the BBC aired a tv show which told the story of a Mosque training suicide bombers in the UK. The very next week a Mosque in Birmingham (where the tv show was set) was covered with racist graffiti and people who worship there were subject to verbal harrassment. When was the last time a Christian church was attacked because the media portrayed Christians as violent extremists?
Tell me: when was the last time you were persecuted because of your faith? Have you ever been physically attacked because of it? How many Christians do you know of who have been physically assaulted because they openly professed their religion? Are there any groups which campaign for all Christians to be thrown out of the United States? There are several who believe all Muslims should be removed from the US, presumably disregarding the fact that many Muslims in the US were actually born there.
I don't deny that there are many people who make fun of Christianity, but it isn't in any way comparable to the sort of mistreatment that many Muslims and Jews (to name only two examples) face in Western society.
melon said:
Well, when buffoons represent you, then that's what you get.
80sU2isBest said:I'm not ashamed to be a Christian. i don't care what people say tehy do in the name of Christianity. I will never be ashamed to be a Christian.
80sU2isBest said:
Fizzing, read my previous post in which I stated that Christians are not persecuted in this country. What are you telling me these things for, when I stated that myself in an eariler post?
Angela Harlem said:Out of curiosity, what do you think happens to those who believe in God, but a generic God, one who exists but not necessarily through a church or an organised religion?
I am not of the belief that people who haven't heard the truth necessarily go to hell (they don't necessarily go to Heaven, either).