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[Lewis]

New Research Indicates Islam Growing Faster Than Christianity
http://www.christianheadlines.com/b...s-islam-growing-faster-than-christianity.html

 

[TOG]

That's not surprising when you consider Christian evangelism is de facto forbidden in western countries, but the law prohibits saying anything against Islam. Look what happened in England recently.

The TOG​

 

[jasonc]

we cant witness in America?

 

[TOG]

Maybe it was a bit strongly worded to say that Christian evangelism is forbidden, but it is restricted. Notice also that I said "de facto". It's not law, at least not in most cases, but there are restrictions put on Christian speech. For example, when I was a teenager, there was a Christian Bible study group in my high school that met once a week before school started. That isn't allowed any more. Many students brought their Bibles with them to school back then, but more recently, kids have been suspended or even expelled for bringing a Bible to school. Saying grace before eating in the cafeteria didn't used to be a problem, but I recently heard of a second grader being told it was bad to pray and being prevented from praying before eating. I've also heard of high school students being threatened with suspension if they said grace in the cafeteria. (From what I recall, praying for the cafeteria food is probably not a bad idea.)

Besides the schools, people have lost their jobs because of their religious views. Professors and scientists who express a belief in intelligent design have been fired, even when their job has nothing to do with origins or biology. There was also the case in the news recently of Mozilla's CEO being fired because he supported traditional marriage. There are many other examples. People are not nearly as free to evangelize or witness as they used to be.

The TOG​

 

[jasonc]

Maybe it was a bit strongly worded to say that Christian evangelism is forbidden, but it is restricted. Notice also that I said "de facto". It's not law, at least not in most cases, but there are restrictions put on Christian speech. For example, when I was a teenager, there was a Christian Bible study group in my high school that met once a week before school started. That isn't allowed any more. Many students brought their Bibles with them to school back then, but more recently, kids have been suspended or even expelled for bringing a Bible to school. Saying grace before eating in the cafeteria didn't used to be a problem, but I recently heard of a second grader being told it was bad to pray and being prevented from praying before eating. I've also heard of high school students being threatened with suspension if they said grace in the cafeteria. (From what I recall, praying for the cafeteria food is probably not a bad idea.)

I would say that we Christians have also treated sinners as such. my brother posted this in a debate.

http://www.examiner.com/article/rel...-atheist-s-battle-against-discrimination-pt-1

he was debating a similar subject to the mozzile ceo.
often we Christians miss the other ways of going around a strong attack.

 

[jasonc]

I do agree the the world tends in the west allow islam to flourish, one can bring a bible to school and pray here. they cant stop us from exercising our free speech. they have tried to and each time sooner or later lost.