I have seen visiting Christian missionaries taunting Hindus for being polytheistic. Agreed, in Ten Commandments, it says not to worship more than one God; however, is it correct to ridicule people who, generally, do not confront you in any other way? Furthermore, then what is the difference between such missionaries and the terrorists who kill in the name of their religion?
2006-07-26 09:48:18 · 11 answers · asked by peter p 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
These are good questions. I don't have much to add, except that it makes me sick that some of the Christian missionaries won't help people in 3rd world countries unless they convert to Christianity. I can't understand how anyone could see someone starving and hand them a bible instead of food.
2006-07-26 09:51:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Being a missionary is to quit one's possess existence to support others. It is anything you fully grasp could occur while you're out within the subject. I was once a missionary in India and didn't discover this perspective. I located the Indians to be so much nicer than the persons right here in America and I felt so much more secure there within the greater towns than I do in say Baltimore or Washington, DC wherein I reside. However, I would see that going down in small villages there wherein there's nonetheless plenty of superstition. How is that any special than the crimes dedicated in opposition to Muslims within the United States because nine/eleven?
2016-08-28 17:29:00 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus commanded his followers to love each other, love their neighbors and love their enemies.
As far as the difference between taunting and killing, that should be obvious. You can live in a world of Christians where the worst that can happen to you is they taunt you for being different, or you can live in a world of Muslims or atheists where they kill you for being different. Which do you choose?
2006-07-26 09:54:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is very much to say missionaries=terrorists.I read, that God sends missionaries,they risk their life to give to other mens the constience of God,to save their souls. God says to missionaries go,because the mens who will believe in God already exists there(because God has opened their hearts before).The resultats of the work of the missionaries don't can see them yet, but in the future yes.Does the God Will in their life.
2006-07-26 10:05:18 · answer #4 · answered by mirna 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've always thought, and to a degree, Martin Luthur would agree with me, that churches seek to bring in more people so they can make more money.
The Catholic church has gotten rich off of forcing people to follow them out of fear for their lives or fear for their souls. The more people you have going to your church, the more money you make. And if you can convince them to pay tithings in order to receive forgiveness for their sins, you make even more.
Some people really do think they are doing God's work by bringing more souls into the kingdom of God. But, if God is real, he made a place for those who willingly choose not to believe in him. Why do some people think it's their duty to save people from hell? It's not like they have never heard of it. They just don't believe in it.
So, since non-believers can't be burned at the stake, stoned to death, or tortured into believing what others want them to believe, all things Christians have been guilty of in the past, we have the door-to-door people and the missions who try to brow beat, scare and coerce into believing what they want them to believe. And in the end, it usually means more money for the church that sent them out to find converts.
Religion is the single biggest problem in the world these days. Everyone thinks they are right, and wants to convince everyone else that they are, and are willing to kill to make their point.
Without religion, we'd have wars over real stuff like love, greed, and land. We wouldn't be killing people just because they don't believe what we believe.
2006-07-26 10:01:00 · answer #5 · answered by DragonOpinion 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christian missionaries worship the Lord Jesus Christ and work for the kingdom of heaven. Terrorist worship nothing but a bomb and work for the devil.
2006-07-26 09:51:27 · answer #6 · answered by Preacher 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it's not right, but the obvious difference is murder. We're all rude or insensitive at some point in our lives, that doesn't make us all killers.
2006-07-26 09:55:22 · answer #7 · answered by daisyk 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No difference
2006-07-26 09:51:38 · answer #8 · answered by October 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, what the Preacher man said.
2006-07-26 09:54:50 · answer #9 · answered by catarina 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is not right to make fun of others and their beliefs, but i don't equate insensitivity and lack of tact with wholesale slaughter (though the talmud equates embarrassing someone with killing him).
2006-07-26 09:53:23 · answer #10 · answered by rosends 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋