cestusdei:
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That plays out in all aspects of human liberty including freedom of religion. Something I highly recommend to Muslims. The Vatican is beginning to insist on reciprocity. That is equal rights for Christians in Muslim countries just like they have in the West.
Hi cestusdei,
You have no idea what you are talking about because you don’t know the whole picture as such your attitude is not a good sign for your Christianity, either.
No faith should be forced on other people againts their will because faith is not something like we all learn science or geography or mathematics in school as facts.
The total of any faith is not based on observational facts. Otherwise all people on Earth would have adopt only one faith, which is totally based on proven, observational facts.
The reason not all faith can be proved descisively because they deal problems with this human life and the Afterlife.
As far, faith issues that deals with this life, there is a variety and many solutions available in different faiths as such people have a choice to pick whatever they like.
As far issues dealing with afterlife, in this area too many different “theories/hyposthesisies” are in the market of various faiths. The irony is no one can prove all these different “theories/hyposthesisies”, like 2+2=4.
Thus all issues of any faith are not exact sciences. All men have a variety on their tables of choice. As such you cannot force people or ask any nation/society/country to open the doors so that you can impose your faith (say, catholicism) on them because people already have and live happily in their faith fro centuries which they inherit from their beloved parents/ancestors and are not in real need to waste their time on you.
The only option you have is, you can “preach” them only if they allow you because if they don’t accept your Catholicsm they are not going to die nor you can prove them descisively why Catholicism is MUST for them.
Now, even if somehow you are allowed to preach them your Catholcism, then this does not mean end of the story of your concern/passion to evangleise your faith. On the contrary, allowing you to teach your faith, means opening the door for all 33,000 denominations of Christendom and plus all countless non-Chrisian faith such as Satanism, Pagainism, worshippers of female private organs, Worshippers of Devils etc. Why? Because it is your analogy that you used by using the example of your West’s freedom of religions and thus as much as you (a Catholic) have the right to preach Moslems, all other Christians, such as Mormons, followers of Jimmy Swaggart, Jehovas Witnesses too have every right to teach their beliefs as Christian faith and open their places of worship in their (Moslem) countries. No? Or you think only Catholics must be allowed in the Moslem country(ies)?
This the one aspect. There is an another aspect, which you totally ignored, knowingly or unkowingly, and that is: People around the world like to go to Europeor America not because people of Europe/America are Christians. In fact most people who are poor and intelligent like to go there to make more and appropraite income because in their countries, their governments are either corrupted or they have no proper resources or cannot afford because of lack of technology and other reasons.
Europe and America’s progress and developement is not due to their being born as Christians. In fact their progress is due to keeping Christianity completely out of state matters and adopting science and technology to grow freely. They began to improve their economic and technological condition eversince they reject Church and adopted secularism. Secularism means limiting the role of Church to some set of personal beliefs. Thus people who live and those who like to live in Europe/America, they are impressed by their secularism and not their Christianity.
Your analogy would make sense only if people had loved to go to Europe of Christian Fundamentalists, when Papal authority was governing. Obviously in that Europe, even Jews were not allowed to live with peace let alone preach their Judaism. Ask yourself how many Jewish synagogues or Moslem mosques or Hindu temples were allowed to build in Papal’s Europe?