Bartholomew I, the patriarch of Constantinople is the spiritual leader of 300 million Eastern Orthodox. For a millennium Constantinople was the seat of a thriving empire. It was conquered by Muslims in 1453 and renamed Istanbul. Today Bartholomew reigns over a few buildings and fewer than 3,000 Turkish Christians. The patriarchate exists at the sufferance of the Turkish government and with the reluctant acquiescence of the imams. Imagine a similar future for the Church of Rome. Imagine, a few generations from now, that Europeans have failed to reproduce themselves and have failed to resuscitate their faith. If present trends continue, in some European countries fully half of the population will be Muslim not long after mid-century. At some point sharia will be introduced. Historical legal structures, such as British common law and the Code Napoleon, will give way to the law of the Qu’ran. Year by year the Christian minority will become ever more isolated. Has anybody considered this?
2007-08-29 05:05:16 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2007-08-29 05:05:38 · update #1
Even though i don't like to be a scare monger I have to agree. Here's a quote from a recent book on the subject that equates modern Europe with Europe of the late 1930s in that no one was speaking out against Nazism, as no one is speaking out against radical Islam today.
2007-08-29 05:11:22 · answer #1 · answered by robert2020 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
This is total bollocks.
First off it will take centuries before Muslims become the majority in France and Britain at the current rate.
Secondly, it assumes that all Muslims want Sharia Law. By this assumption should not homosexuality be illegal in Britain and France because of the Christian majority?
The majority of Europeans, of all religions, are very happy with the level of separation of state and religion that they have. The majority of Europeans, of all religions, will oppose the institution of laws based upon religious grounds rather than secular reasoning.
BTW, I would not worry about Islam in Europe if I were you, atheism is going to take over way before Islam does. And Europe will enjoy a new renaissance while America is held back by fundamentalists insisting that evolution is a lie and the Earth is only 6000 years old because it says so in a book.
2007-08-29 05:23:18 · answer #2 · answered by Simon T 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
By mid century the population of the Earth will be 9 billion or more, shortly after that there will be a global famine and those who don't have the money or power to live in isolated enclaves with sufficient food will starve to death or die in the horrific wars over food, water, and other resources. The population will be reduced to maybe 200 or 500 million and it will take 300 to 400 years for the Earth to get back into balance. What anyone believes at that point will be immaterial.
2007-08-29 05:17:32 · answer #3 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are assuming that Islam will remain stable over the next decades. This is not very likely as education via internet, cell phones and media are going to create a culture revolution in either the next generation or the one following that.
Once young muslims start questioning the less savory aspects of their religon, and the old guard dies out, there will be cultural changes that makes the '60s in America and Britan seem mild.
2007-08-29 05:14:52 · answer #4 · answered by Fancy That 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Hard to resuscitate the faith, when the track record of the church has been so appauling and quite hypocritical. Pedophiles are tolerated, instead of being kicked out, they're moved to another parish so they can molest still more kids. They choose sides in wars and encourage their members to kill members of the same church on the opposing side. That is not what Jesus taught us to be, he says at John 13:35 that you can identify true christians by the love they have among themselves.
Genuinely helping people spiritually and bringing them refreshment like Jesus did is something quite absent in many churches. Christendom is doomed to disintegrate.
2007-08-29 05:21:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anon 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, but Atheists will begin to outnumber the Muslims. Science will continue, especially in America, where there is much less Islam going around than there is in Europe. Islam will get cocky, try to start a war with the Atheists, the Atheists with their superior science will win. We'll have a world of no religion, and life will be wonderful and intellectually driven. That sounds more like a prophecy of joy than a doomsday scenario to me.
2007-08-29 05:13:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
So... am I to take from this that I should go get impregnated so I can bear non-Muslim children?
Sha'ria in its Q'oranic form, is actually quite liberated. It's patriarchy that we need to worry about.
2007-08-29 05:14:36 · answer #7 · answered by ZombieTrix 2012 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
As long as you have given your heart to the Lord Jesus Christ and entered into a personal relationship with Him, you cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
Knowledge is great, good works better, but both are not enough to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
God bless you and have a great day!
2007-08-29 05:13:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
well yeah that's the paranoia that fuels hillbilly Quiverfull cultists like the Duggan family in Arkansas, driving them to have 18 kids and put a strain on the earth's resources for their own mad political agendas
2007-08-29 05:14:42 · answer #9 · answered by Tragic Tapas 2 · 5⤊ 2⤋
Much much sooner than that all false religion will be destroyed by the governments of this world. Read Revealtion 17;17 God is going to put it into their hearts to destroy babylon the great the mother of all false religion.
Soon now the governments will get tiried of false reliigon and destroy it.
2007-08-29 05:13:51 · answer #10 · answered by Ruth 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋