who will not convert??? Sounds kinda like the stuff John wrote about in Revelation. You know, a one world government, losing your head if you do not "take the mark of the beast". etc., etc. Call me a nut if you want, but don't expect to get 10pts for best answer if you do!
This is in politics for one reason, I am talking about the political/governmental aspect of this.
2006-08-21 03:57:57 · 18 answers · asked by El Pistolero Negra 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
I don't recall even the most extreme Christians were blowing themselves up to kill their enemies. The Crusades were Catholic in origen and Catholisism is not Christianity any more than Jehovah's Witnesses is.
2006-08-21 04:46:11 · update #1
My Father always told me most people are stupid, can we disagree with him?
Many of these third world countries offer no hope or careers for their people and while their leaders horde all their oil money, they convince their uneducated young men that it is the West's fault and sucker them into this evil stuff. And that is exactly what it is, Evil Stuff.
What is scary are goofballs in our country, USA, who are converting to Islam. They showed a young Hispanic woman studying the Quoran, I don't care how to properly spell it.
Being totally immersed in any religious book is a bad thing, I don't respect bible thumping Christians either. However, doesn't the peaceful religion of Islam say its ok to behead people and kill Jews and Christians? Some of my PC relatives and friends think everybody is ok and we are all the same. They were offended when I called Islam a **** religion. Wake up people. Sooner or later we have to destroy them, and the longer we wait the harder it will be!
2006-08-21 04:14:18 · answer #1 · answered by TG Special 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't remember the losing your head part of Revelation. But I do know a lot of people read things into Revelation that aren't really there and then cite those conclusions as if they are absolute fact.
Anywho, beheading is just one way of converting people. There's also torture. Nothing new and nothing that christianity hasn't done.
Please note that the Protestant Reformation had not taken place until the 16th century.
2006-08-21 04:05:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Beheading,conversion, or dhimmitude(and payment of jizya) - not really great choices.
If shar'ia law became the law of the land, then it would violate the concept of religious freedon, by the establishment of a state religion, though I hardly think that jihadists will give any care to our constiution.
2006-08-21 04:21:46 · answer #3 · answered by B C 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christianity may be doubled than Islam, yet are all christians have the understanding and high quality of being a christian? the place do christians stand in case you in basic terms attend church as quickly as a week yet on no account stick to any of its teachings on Bible the subsequent 6 days? little need of having super quantity of christians however the nicely-known?
2016-09-29 12:29:19 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What an ad hominem "low blow" against Jehovah's Witnesses!
Trinitarians and other anti-Witnesses repeatedly pretend that Jehovah's Witnesses are not Christian. Trinitarians use an artificial, trinity-specific definition of the term "Christian" which excludes anyone who does not believe that Jesus is God Himself, rather than the Son of God. Interestingly, pagans in the first century pretended that Christ's followers were Atheists(!) because the Christians had a somewhat different idea from the pagans about the nature of God.
Jehovah's Witnesses teach that no salvation occurs without Christ, that accepting Christ's sacrifice is a requirement for true worship, that every prayer must acknowledge Christ, that Christ is the King of God's Kingdom, that Christ is the head of the Christian congregation, that Christ is immortal and above every creature, even that Christ was the 'master worker' in creating the universe! Both secular dictionaries and disinterested theologians acknowledge that Jehovah's Witnesses are a Christian religion.
The Trinitarian arguments are intended to insult and demean Jehovah's Witnesses, rather than to give a Scripturally accurate understanding of the term "Christian".
In fact, the bible most closely associates being "Christian" with preaching about Christ and Christ's teachings. Review all the times the bible uses the term "Christian" and note that the context connects the term with:
"declaring the good news"
'teaching quite a crowd'
'open eyes, turn from dark to light'
"uttering sayings of truth"
"persuade"
"keep on glorifying"
(Acts 11:20-26) [The early disciples of Jesus] began talking to the Greek-speaking people, declaring the good news of the Lord Jesus... and taught quite a crowd, and it was first in Antioch that the disciples were by divine providence called Christians.
(Acts 26:17-28) [Jesus said to Paul] I am sending you, to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light and from the authority of Satan to God... Paul said: “I am not going mad, Your Excellency Festus, but I am uttering sayings of truth and of soundness of mind. ...Do you, King Agrippa, believe the Prophets? I know you believe.” But Agrippa said to Paul: “In a short time you would persuade me to become a Christian.”
(1 Peter 4:14-16) If you are being reproached for the name of Christ, you are happy... But if he suffers as a Christian, let him not feel shame, but let him keep on glorifying God in this name
So why do anti-Witnesses try to hijack the term "Christian" and hide its Scriptural implications? Because anti-Witnesses recognize that it is the preaching work that makes it clear that the relatively small religion of Jehovah's Witnesses are by far the most prominent followers of Christ:
(Matthew 28:19,20) Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded
Learn more!
http://watchtower.org
http://watchtower.org/library/ti/index.htm
2006-08-21 09:12:11 · answer #5 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They are using the same reasoning as Hitler. Tell them only your way is right and hate all who are different. Hitler tried to kill all those whom he found impure to his way of thinking. We can only pray that Islam will have the same ending. Since they are against all Jews and Christians, I think it is very possible that this is the for told end.
2006-08-21 04:11:23 · answer #6 · answered by jackie 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nah I expect that a bloodthirsty religion would behead those it doesn't convert. After all the Catholics used to burn people to death in the Middle Ages so why not? It's the religious thing to do. Shows how much you love humanity.
2006-08-21 04:04:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Islam is not even a religion, it is a cult and should not
exist. It is the same thing as communism or Hitler's Third Reich.
2006-08-21 04:10:27 · answer #8 · answered by Vagabond5879 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Their political and religious leaders have promised them the world and the non-believers must die or be enslaved !
Gotta go buy more ammunition , it'll be a FREE FIRE ZONE !
2006-08-21 04:08:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
its like "Riddick" the movie lol!
I hope really that's not the case (about the anticrist) I heard on 2 tv shows that there's a nut saying that he Is Jesus crist I kinda like his Ideas he says there's No such thing as sins(because he died on the cross for that) and says that we should all be rich, and that the devil doesn't exist!!
can you belive him lol I wish It was true!
2006-08-21 04:09:38 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋