What has happened to christianity?

Question

Ive just read a question from someone - here is the link.

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AsrqoxZcnXCseOp2hOY2y2NFLxV.?qid=20070603125113AAymzqy

And some things people said didnt add up. Im just looking at it logically.

If mohammed was this bad person this person claims he was - then why is it the second biggest religion after christianity - and why do more and more people convert to it. I mean, for example, i look into the current state of Africa and it wasnt islam that enslaved them or messed up their land - it was christianity. The current state in the middle east has been caused by christianity for no gain whatsoever except that people like you and me can drive our cars to work tomorow morning. I have read stories of soldiers in the newspapers raping civilians etc. This is not what christinaity is about and if jesus was here - he'd truly be ashamed of what has happened especially now that george bush is a re-born christian. What has happened to christianity

Johnny walker - was the world not a safer place before the middle east conquest? and to think of those poor souls in Africa being shipped off like animals to america to work? that is not islam. That is christianity. WW2 was christianity based and started and unfortunately everyone was dragged into the war - hindus, buddhists, muslims

Answer 1

Good question. Christianity is about peace is it not? then why do we hear of rape of innocent civilains in the newspapers. May god have mercy on the souls of everyone involved in the conflict - why? cos it is all down to material gain - oil and money.

Answer 2

Actually,Africans were and still are literally enslaved,almost just likein the 18th Cent, by Muslims in the name of Islam.The mess in the Near East has nothing to do with Christianity and a great deal to do withJihadist Islamism and the suicide/murder culture cultivated by it.
Christianity is growing neck and neck with Islam in Africa and is a greater proportion of most of SubSaharan Africa's population than Islam is. I agree that what the West does is often truly contrary to the teachings of the New Testament:however, the West is as governments Post -Christian,if not yet fully Anti Christian.
Muslim imams and mullahs routinely urge murder and rapine. The troops of Muslim countries are renowned for rape and murder and corruption. The West is not Christian,but is Islamdom authentically Muslim or even approaching the possibility of the rule of law and tolerance?

Answer 3

1- religion is only to be blamed if people did it out of religious reasons. slavery happened because people wanted cheap workers: slaves. now since it was a crime to enslave one among them, who would they turn to? it wasn't Christianity doing this. people just tried to use it as a scapegoat or escuse. most of them didn't even understand what the Bible says about slavery.

2- the middle-east has been at it for years. not because of Christianity, but because of territorial disputes. I can almost guarantee you that disputes would still be bad even if America hadn't joined. and who made the decision to go to Iraq? I know it wasn't all the pastors, chu7rch members, or even the Pope who said so... Bush

please don't include what people who just happened to be Christians do and say that it's Christianity's fault. judge not lest you be judged.I don't judge muslims for the actions for some fanaticals; why start a pointless cycle?

and guess what? predicted in the Bible. Jesus said [more or less, paraphrazed] "the kingdom of Heaven is like a tree planted in a garden, and it sprang up, and the birds of the air nestled in its branches". those birds, the influences, came into the church and people adhered to them. some birds were even invited in. when those birds nested, they began to shape the branches they landed on, filling them with dung and scratchmarks, and weighting them down. soon the eggs hatched, the domain of Satan spread and that tree has many dead branches now...

that's basically why. people just tend to try and say what the Bible says, without actually looking at the original scriptures, or they just try and interpret a spiritual mistery on their own without letting the Holy Spirit do His job.

hope that answers your question

Answer 4

The person who asked this question obviously forgot that Moses and David were murderers, and David an adulterer. One of the other Judaic prophets was very fat (he died after he fell asleep sitting up and then fell off the bench, thus breaking his neck.)

What has happened to Christianity is that everyone and his dog is a prophet these days, but I'm guessing that a great number of them are spouting something that isn't true, just feels good.

There is a Muslim law that states that if one converts to any other religion after being a Muslim, they are condemned to death. So...I'm sure this is a fundamentalist Muslim sect that espouses this law, but I thought that you should be aware that they believe that Jesus was only a prophet and not the Christ. Because of His humanity they believe it is impossible for God to walk amoung us for one lifetime.

Answer 5

Eversince the Christianity gained political ascendancy and military power, the spiritual aspect which was the pure christianity of the poor began to decline, Churches losing membership, offering more and more converts to the suppressed, poor,Muslims. Islam, like earlier Christianity, thrives in poverty and humility, hence gaining converts everywhere, even among the occupying forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Occupiers are winning at the cost of their religion.

Answer 6

well, just because something is the 2nd largest anything, doesn't make it good. and christianity isn't good just because of it's numbers. if a billion people believe in a bad idea, its still a bad idea. now, don't blame the things you pointed out on chrisitanity. chrisitanity is an inatomic object. have christians done evil? duh, every type of person has. but to judge a religion you have to look at what it teaches. completly, not just pick and choose parts. and the popular thing is to blame Bush for it all. that's not fair. our government has done what they thought was right. have they been wrong? duh again. but this thing that america is evil and so is our leader is ignorant and insulting. if the country was more united, things would be able to get accomplished alot easier.

Answer 7

Christianity, like all Religion, is a human organisation, no matter what inspiration it may draw its mythology and teaching from. As such, it falls prey to the universal mantra "Stupidity is people in large groups".

Pack mentality drives the majority of our institutional evils in Religion and Politics alike, and as long as Christianity continues to exist as an ideologically segregationist organised body rather than (as it would seem Jesus was intending) a sense of connection to the world through divinity, it will suffer the consequences of this structure and remain a force that contributes to this evil.

Answer 8

It is commonplace in YA for many who come here and are not
Christian to inadvertently place Christians in a lump with other
religious beliefs.

Christians have never been and never will be the ones who kill anyone. Christians never have enslaved anyone. People are not Christians just because they say they are. Not every person of any Protestant denomination is a Christian. No Catholic who follows the traditions and Mary worship and prayer to the saints is a Christian. No Mormon is a Christian.
No Jehovah's Witness is a Christian. Nobody from Christian
Science is a Christian.

Real Christians call themselves Christian only. They are not Baptists, Pentecostals, Methodists, Lutherans, Nazarene, Church of God, Assemblies of God, and etc. etc. etc.
They do not call themselves Catholic as in Roman Catholic.
They will never call themselves Mormon or JW or subscribe to the false teaching of Christian Science.

They love Christ and live to serve, honor and glorify Him.
They have been washed in the blood of the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. They love all people including their enemies, and pray for those who persecute, mock, scorn and hate them. They are peace loving, but not wimpy people and they will enter into the arenas of the world and fight for souls and moral standards in every place and every way they can. They are not compromisers, but firm in their convictions and will not be swayed or led astray by the lies of the devil no matter how sweet the enticements may be.

Jesus Christ is their King and Lord and Master, and they believe they will live with Him forever after they leave their mortal bodies. It is their strongest desire to please God and to see as many delivered from sin and death and Hell as is possible in their lifetime.

The strange paradox in the world today is that while these Christians are trying to rescue souls from Hell, the people they are reaching out to are telling one another to go to Hell and helping one another get there by laughing at sin in their own lives and the lives of their acquaintances while God is patiently waiting for them to hear and obey His Word.

STOP BLAMING CHRISTIANS FOR THINGS THEY NEVER DID. GET A REAL IDEA OF WHO IS AND WHO ISN'T A CHRISTIAN AND GIVE THE REAL CHRISTIANS A BREAK FROM THESE FALSE ACCUSATIONS. THANK YOU!

Answer 9

No, you are wrong. You have completely ignored history. Islam has destroyed the Middle east, and everything else it touches. It was Islam that violently took over the East, Africa , and is taking Asia as we speak-all by force.
You have what little you know very mixed up.

Answer 10

Nothing new. Christianity is here to stay as it shows a way of life which gives a meaning for existing.