WobblyJoe
United States
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If you will excuse me for saying so, I believe it is you who do not see the relationship between a religion and it’s followers. God doesn’t worship Himself. With zero followers, there is no “religion”. The religion IS the followers, its the way they worship God according to the Koran.
That doesn’t mean all Muslims are alike or that all types of Muslims are Islamic. In Christianity there are many sub-groups, mostly separated by doctrines that only scholars really understand. There are what we call “essential doctrines”, which are those beliefs that actually make us “Christians”. Those who agree with those essential doctrines are considered “main stream” Christian, but there other groups, (some with the word “Christian” in the name), that just are not Christian, according to doctrines of most Christians. Surely it is the same in Islam. When the Crusaders slaughtered every Jew and Muslim they encountered, did it matter to Muslims that the Crusader actions weren’t actually “Christian”?
You mention the KKK (Ku Klux Klan). They are not a Christian group, although I can see why you’d say they were. Actually, they hate all non-Aryans (including southern Europeans), Catholics, Protestants who aren’t one of a couple of denominations, all other kinds of Christians including Orthodox, and all other faiths. They kill Christians as quickly as anyone else and are infamous for burning holy places of all faiths.
Which we rebuild. They are very much like iSIS but not nearly as many members.
There are actual Christian terrorist groups, they are not actually Christians but that doesn’t change the responsibility to undo damage done in our name if we can. Jesus taught us to love, and that’s what people who love you do when all you have is burned.
We don’t rebuild Mosques to encourage Islamic worship, we rebuild them because it was wrong that they were destroyed, and worse, destroyed in our name. They are buildings, not worship. A place to worship, not the worship itself.
I would be very interested in seeing which scriptures support what you claim, that the Koran has more mercy and tolerance and less mention of war. Use Christian scriptures, the New Testament, not the Jewish scriptures which constitute the Old Testament.
You are probably right about Jewish scriptures, but I think you are very wrong about Christian scriptures. Please quote some if you would.
We are also taught that only the Holy Spirit of God can lead a person to Faith, but we can live in such a way that those who do not believe can see how much God loves us by how we treat them. So we rebuild, even for those we don’t agree with or don’t like. You can’t change much, but you can speak up, and convince the Muslims you do know that doing right is a big part of being righteous. Maybe over time it will make a difference.
I say again, if God promised you Palestine if you repent, why are they using violence?? Why don’t they repent? I can only blame the hate.
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