Orthodox Priest Beheading and Recent White House Omission

[rpp]

Perhaps you should read Sixtus’ post again and not twist it into something he did not say. He said some Christians are terrorists and anyone who reads the newspaper or watches TV news knows this is true.

No twisting is required.

Using words is quite different than strapping a bomb to your body and walking into Chuckee Cheese. Christians are not doing that. Believe me, if they did it even once, we would never hear the end of it.

I think these kinds of statements come from people who get the news from CNN.

 

[Adonis33]

No twisting is required.

Using words is quite different than strapping a bomb to your body and walking into Chuckee Cheese. Christians are not doing that. Believe me, if they did it even once, we would never hear the end of it.

I think these kinds of statements come from people who get the news from CNN.

Exactly.

 

[Loy]

No twisting is required.

Using words is quite different than strapping a bomb to your body and walking into Chuckee Cheese. Christians are not doing that. Believe me, if they did it even once, we would never hear the end of it.

I think these kinds of statements come from people who get the news from CNN.

It is terribly naïve and doesn’t help further the Christian faith to ignore the fact that some Christians have committed acts of terrorism.

Catholic and Protestant terrorism in Northern Ireland??? Hello!!!

There are so many instances of religious/polticial based terrorism by Catholic and Orthodox Christians (against each other and against Muslims) in the former Yugoslavia, that I can’t even begin to list them.

Lebanese Catholics carried out the infamous massacre of unarmed men, women and children at the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila.

Many of the Hutus who carried out the massacre of innocent Tutsis in the Rwanda genocide were Catholic.

It was Baptists in India who formed the terrorist group known as the National Liberation Front of Tripura.

I’m afraid that many of the atrocities carried out by Armenian Christians against Muslims in the Nagorna-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan would qualifiy as terrorism.

None of the egregious sins committed by misguided Christian terrorists diminishes the Christian faith in any way. I can’t begin to imagine, however, how much suffering it caused to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

 

[rpp]

It is terribly naïve and doesn’t help further the Christian faith to ignore the fact that some Christians have committed acts of terrorism.

Catholic and Protestant terrorism in Northern Ireland??? Hello!!!

There are so many instances of religious/polticial based terrorism by Catholic and Orthodox Christians (against each other and against Muslims) in the former Yugoslavia, that I can’t even begin to list them.

Lebanese Catholics carried out the infamous massacre of unarmed men, women and children at the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila.

Many of the Hutus who carried out the massacre of innocent Tutsis in the Rwanda genocide were Catholic.

It was Baptists in India who formed the terrorist group known as the National Liberation Front of Tripura.

I’m afraid that many of the atrocities carried out by Armenian Christians against Muslims in the Nagorna-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan would qualifiy as terrorism.

None of the egregious sins committed by misguided Christian terrorists diminishes the Christian faith in any way. I can’t begin to imagine, however, how much suffering it caused to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

You are correct. Christians have committed acts of violence, some may even qualify as acts of terror. The actions were almost immediately disavowed by Christian groups. I do not recal the Holy Father claiming the Catholics in Northern Ireland were doing the right thing when the attacked British troops and plants bombs in London. At least they usually call before the bombs go off so fewer people are hurt.

Islam is fundamentally different here. We did not hear the moslem world immediatly and in no uncertain terms condemn the attacks on the African embassies, the USS Cole, Sept. 11 2001, March 11 2003 in Madrid and July 7, 2005 in London. Instead we see dancing in streets in Indonesia, Palastine, Rhyad, Cairo, etc. A weeks or so later we hear some local iman say that the attacks were somehow undesireable side affects of oppression.

Holy war is a pillar of the faith. People keep wanting the use the word “jihad” because “war” has such bad connotations.

Comparing the isolated terrorism commited by Christians, but generally not in the name of Christianity, makes for an interesting contrast. The organized continuous and merciless murder be moslems is done in the name of Islam.

 

[JimO]

It is not for us to judge Islam. It is not for us to judge anyone. We are commissioned by the Lord only to LOVE.

Not true Sixtus, we are not to judge people, meaning that we cannot judge their intentions or what is in their heart, but we are to judge their actions, discern spirits, and judge philisophies and ideas in the light of the Gospel to protect our brothers and sisters from disception.

To truly love someone might mean pointing out their sin to them so that they can repent. We are to speak the truth in love, which means we can say things that are hard to hear, but it must be the truth and it must be done with the intention of turning them to the Lord. If someone is a member of a religion that is in error and they are in danger of eternal damnation, the loving thing would be to seek their enlightenment to the truth, pray for their conversion, and be a witness to God’s love, but not to pretend like they are fine in their belief, or as our critics like to say “to be tolerant”.

 

[bones_IV]

The moslems as a whole cannot be blamed for the beheading of the orthodox priest. It’s true that certain Moslems did take part in it, but we can’t blame them as a whole.