Who is the enemy?

Question

Muslims and Christians are blaming each other for the woes of the world. Then you hear stuff like:

There soon will come a great war, a bloody but holy day. And after that purging, our people will be free, and sing up in the bright skies, a sun for all to see. (A song by the teenage racist girl group Prussian Blue.)

How is their philosophy so different from radical Islam? Is there a common link in all these groups that puts human life behind their ideologies? What is that common link, in your opinion?

Answer 1

One of the things I've concluded as a result of my time on Y!A R&S is that the real enemy is selfishness. Those who, like infants, want what they want, when they want it, and the way they want it, and don't care how it affects others. The enemy is the Muslim terrorist who kills innocent people because it somehow makes him feel better to harm those who have the affrontery to think differently. The enemy is the Christian who think's it's his right to force a Muslim Congressman-elect to take his oath of office on a Christian Bible because that's what he would do. The enemy is the atheist who tears pages from Gideon Bibles whenever he stays at a hotel simply because the words don't resonate with him, regardless of whether they might resonate with someone else. The enemy is anyone who dismisses other religions as "cults," "Satanic," "heathenism," "brainwashing," or "stupid" just because they don't appeal to him.

Answer 2

The second coming of Christ is the blessed hope of the church, the grand climax of the gospel. The Saviour's coming will be literal, personal, visible, and worldwide. When He returns, the righteous dead will be resurrected, and together with the righteous living will be glorified and taken to heaven, but the unrighteous will die. The almost complete fulfillment of most lines of prophecy, together with the present condition of the world, indicates that Christ's coming is imminent. The time of that event has not been revealed, and we are therefore exhorted to be ready at all times. (Titus 2:13; Heb. 9:28; John 14:1-3; Acts 1:9-11; Matt. 24:14; Rev. 1:7; Matt. 24:43, 44; 1 Thess. 4:13-18; 1 Cor. 15:51-54; 2 Thess. 1:7-10; 2:8; Rev. 14:14-20; 19:11-21; Matt. 24; Mark 13; Luke 21; 2 Tim. 3:1-5; 1 Thess. 5:1-6.)

Answer 3

The enemy of my enemy is maximum in all probability my pal. I save my acquaintances close yet enemies a lot closer. Any enemy is a spice. life is pursuit of style. Flat aspect of grave is enemy area for mortals; such fairly some alternatives - so little time.

Answer 4

The enemy in all seriousness...im not trying to offend, seems to be the idea of God.
Haveing only one god, and only one way to him creates a divide.

when the world had many gods and was pagan, there were so many beliefs, that they accepted eachother, NO pagan ever killed another besauce he was diffrent.
But when monotheism was born from amenhoteph IV .... so was intolerance born..

We need to mebrace the pagan ideaology of tolerance, diffrent but equal, thats what they wanted...before they were almost wiped out by the christians for not following"god"

Answer 5

I thought the Christians are the enemy. Haven't you ever read about the Crusades? I heard some calling for another one, too.

Answer 6

Christians and Muslims are basically the same, with the exception that more Christians "liberally" interpret things out of their holy book, whereas Muslims tend to take more of it literally.

Both religions objectify women, contain horrible texts of cruelty and violence, and claim to be the exclusive truth.

Let's just try to persuade both of them to be "liberal Muslims/Christians", whatever that means.

Answer 7

Ignorance is the enemy. It clouds the mind with false witness and hides the truth with unhealthy desire.

Answer 8

THE ENEMY IS SATAN! He is lurking about seeking whom he may devour. We need to be watchful and stand against the devil. Faith is the victory that overcomes the world.

Answer 9

We are a tribal species, and form ourselves into groups of "Self" and "Not Self".

The "Not Self" must usually be defeated, sometimes killed.

Answer 10

if there was no religion, almost everyone we would be at peace