Religions are formed in a particular culture and are fit for that culture. People will never give up their cultural identities. Would'nt countries around the world be much more peaceful if all religions were just practiced in their own places of origin and countries only dealt with each other in diplomacy! A lot of cultural things go with each religion that are unacceptable to other religions. Now what we have is ghettos in every country!
2006-10-16 09:13:25 · 6 answers · asked by suresh t 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
yes
2006-10-16 09:15:14 · answer #1 · answered by george p 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christianity wasn't formed by man. It was given to us by God through his Holy Son Jesus Christ. Jesus came to break cultural and religous barriers.
Jesus said in John 10:10:
The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
Christians were told by Jesus in Matthew 28:18-20:
18 And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19 Go therefore[a] and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.[b]
About the ghettos . . .
Jesus also said in John 12:8
For the poor you have with you always, but Me you do not have always.
There have always been ghettos. Until Jesus comes there always will be. There is no sin in being poor.
A person won't want to leave a ghetto until he is in one. My dad left the hills of eastern Oklahoma to join the US Navy. His family was very poor. After the Navy, he went to college. He became a dentist.
Islam seeks a holy war.
A Christian seeks the will of the Holy Spirit. We fight to defend ourselves. Christianity doesn't represent governments. Christianity represents the hearts of individuals changed one life at a time.
2006-10-16 09:36:08 · answer #2 · answered by ballewthebear 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So far,when you compare the crusades to the Islamic extremist movement now.Yes Islam has destroyed more in it's time than Christianity.Christians saw the err in their ways and stopped.Islamists will not stop.So far they have shown the world nothing but hatred toward anything and anybody not associated with Islam.
2006-10-16 09:28:12 · answer #3 · answered by Derek B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The west took Christianity from the middle east, why they dont come again and took Islam as well??
Fanatic christians are working to destroy Islam.
2006-10-16 09:37:42 · answer #4 · answered by aahamed24 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My 8 ball says "sources say yes"
2006-10-16 09:16:16 · answer #5 · answered by Karrien Sim Peters 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
Are you Hindu?
2006-10-16 09:15:13 · answer #6 · answered by SFNDX 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋