America is a christian nation?
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The Puritans hung Quakers. (See the Problem?)
"The Religious Society of Friends, whose members are commonly known as Quakers, was a Christian movement founded by George Fox in England during the early 1650s. Quakers opposed central church authority, preferring to seek spiritual insight and consensus through egalitarian Quaker meetings. They advocated sexual equality and became some of the most outspoken opponents of slavery in early America. Robinson and Stevenson, who were hanged from an elm tree on Boston Common in Boston, were the first Quakers to be executed in America. Quakers found solace in Rhode Island and other colonies, and Massachusetts’ anti-Quaker laws were later repealed."
"1659
Quakers executed for religious beliefs"
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/quakers-executed-for-religious-beliefs
All of the Religious Cults have one thing in common, they all think their Cult is the Chosen One. And they will kill anyone that disagrees.
"The Religious Society of Friends, whose members are commonly known as Quakers, was a Christian movement founded by George Fox in England during the early 1650s. Quakers opposed central church authority, preferring to seek spiritual insight and consensus through egalitarian Quaker meetings. They advocated sexual equality and became some of the most outspoken opponents of slavery in early America. Robinson and Stevenson, who were hanged from an elm tree on Boston Common in Boston, were the first Quakers to be executed in America. Quakers found solace in Rhode Island and other colonies, and Massachusetts’ anti-Quaker laws were later repealed."
"1659
Quakers executed for religious beliefs"
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/quakers-executed-for-religious-beliefs
All of the Religious Cults have one thing in common, they all think their Cult is the Chosen One. And they will kill anyone that disagrees.
Very true.... The various religious groups didn't get along.. whether Quakers, Dutch Reformed, Anabaptists.. whatever. Not very Christian IMO.
Oh ... VERY Christian.
Think of Spanish Inquisition. The Epitome of Christian Doctrine. All these Religious Cults are dangerous, ... they will literally kill you if you have a different view.
Do you notice any similarities with Islam?
Me being a Christian, are you afraid I will come and kill you?
As individuals, No. Once they get into Power, then they become violent and aggressive. The Spanish Inquisition is the classic example. Do YOU want to live in a Theocracy? You might say 'Yes' if it was your particular Cult, but what if it was an Islamic Cult? Would you convert or face being labeled a Heretic and watch your wife and children die horrible deaths (that only religious cult types can dream up) before being tortured and put to death yourself?
RB60, as a Christian, do you want to kill people that have different beliefs than you?
See, RB, there is a guy EXACTLY like you that lives in the Middle East and feels the EXACT same way you do.
Power? What do you mean by "power"? Are you in fear of this country becoming a "Theocracy"? You're insane if you are. It will never happen.
"RB60, as a Christian, do you want to kill people that have different beliefs than you?"
Again, you're insane to even think that. I don't even want to argue with those who don't have my spiritual beliefs because I don't care what they believe.
But you sit there and call me a "cultist" because of my spiritual beliefs, and that is not true. Have I ever insulted/attacked your non belief? I've only ever defended my beliefs.
I couldn't care less what you believe, or don't believe. Shut up on the matter and you won't get an argument.
Not so much in Arabia... although I am sure it exists.
Funny, I attended our annual Hanukkah supper last Tuesday.. We are a bookclub and its evenly distributed with Jews, Christians, Agnostics and Atheists. The subject of the new book Jesus of Arabia came up..and someone said, " don't care what your religion teaches, we each have a choice as to how we're going to treat people".. We are very political little old ladies... and I don't think we are unique out there.
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If you're "very political little old ladies", you're unique....I do agree with the member who made the statement you quoted.... add politics to that...and it's nearly‘ perfect
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....and unique....that's what I said
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Unique (social circles? There's a Bravo show in the making.... 'lol)...*you're welcome...
I'm having a conversation with others ... and you jump in with this:
"Me being a Christian, are you afraid I will come and kill you?"
I take the courtesy to respond to your outburst, and then you reply with this:
"I couldn't care less what you believe, or don't believe. Shut up on the matter and you won't get an argument."
So:
1. If you 'don't care', why are you jumping into a conversation that others are having?
2. It's a Discussion Board, you know, where people discuss stuff ... why are you telling me to "shut up"?
"Me being a Christian, are you afraid I will come and kill you?"
I take the courtesy to respond to your outburst, and then you reply with this:
"I couldn't care less what you believe, or don't believe. Shut up on the matter and you won't get an argument."
So:
1. If you 'don't care', why are you jumping into a conversation that others are having?
2. It's a Discussion Board, you know, where people discuss stuff ... why are you telling me to "shut up"?
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On the plus side, I don't see Islam doing any conquering so long as it continues to languish from lack of scientific/economic/political/cultural progress.
It's the 21st century. Modern People are accepting 'Scientists' as the new 'Prophets'. 'Visions', 'Dreams', 'Revelation' is being replaced by 'Logic and Reason'.
Can you say "Petro Dollars".
"A madrassa is an Islamic religious school. Many of the Taliban were educated in Saudi-financed madrassas in Pakistan that teach Wahhabism, a particularly austere and rigid form of Islam which is rooted in Saudi Arabia. Around the world, Saudi wealth and charities contributed to an explosive growth of madrassas during the Afghan jihad against the Soviets. During that war (1979-1989), a new kind of madrassa emerged in the Pakistan-Afghanistan region -- not so much concerned about scholarship as making war on infidels. The enemy then was the Soviet Union, today it's America. Here are analyses of the madrassas from interviews with Vali Nasr, an authority on Islamic fundamentalism, and Richard Holbrooke, former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. (For more on the role of madrassas in producing militant Islamists, see the story of Haroun Fazul.)"
"All of these groups are rooted in a network of seminaries, or as the term is called in the local vernacular, "madrassa." My argument was that the main source of funding for these groups is Saudi Arabia. In fact, this whole phenomenon that we are confronting, which Al Qaeda is a part of, is very closely associated with Saudi Arabia's financial and religious projects for the Muslim world as a whole. ..."
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/saudi/analyses/madrassas.html
No... Taliban are Deobandi which is nationalistic.. Wahhabi is not. Madrassa just means school.. Most madrassas are 18-20 boys between the ages of 7 and 12.
Al Qaeda is more closely aligned with the teachings of Sayeed Qubt and al Banna which have been outlawed in Saudi Arabia since the early 1970s.