Before I start, let me preface by saying that I am neither Christian nor Muslim.
Okay, you're an Atheist or your an agnostic, most likely, thank you.
Apart from, you know, the entirety of the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
Okay, here is an honest mistake. You, it can be assumed, know not what a Christian is and what a pretender is. Jesus said, "If you love me, keep my commandments. (John 14:15 & 23)
Let's not forget the WBC, who stand outside the funerals of dead soldiers and tell their relatives that their sons and daughters are burning in hell. Good thing they aren't around any more, hey?
There are two major groups of Christians, 1. the followers of Jesus, the Christ and 2. the religious Christians. The first group is what you will find on this web site and the second is found on every other web site I have ever been a member of. If you will read the first three chapters of the Bible you'll find that God created man (Adam and Eve) for the purpose of the fellowship, the same fellowship He enjoyed with Adam as they walked in the Garden in the cool the evening, after Adam had finished tending the garden that day.
So to understand the bible, you're telling me to not read the bible?
No that is you reading words, taking them out of context and, trying not to be rude but, you then corkscrewing what I said.
Well I suppose I could create a list, just for you. I'll even try to avoid the most obvious Ku Klux Klan killings.
Yes, you can, I can and anyone in the world, knowing what they are doing or not knowing can prepare an impressive list and they can even move to the chalk boark and mark one for them selves but to what end?
Even the blood suckers in the Klan chapters(?) call them selves Christians, they are liars but! Go around the world and you find Hindus murdering Christians, Buddhists, Islamists and you can find pretenders, calling themselves Christians but have no idea what the Book by God has to say of anything.
As recorded over the recent history of this web site, i can pull my picture, put up any avatar and claim to be black. I grew up in the Wards of Houston, Texas, the Hood, and in the fifties and sixties could run the dozens with any Black man until they lost it laughing at the honkey. I sang the Blues in several joints in Houston and was called the White N****r because I could wail Sam Cook, reputedly, as good as Sam, himself. If I was to go back down on Jensen in Houston and lets Miss May make me black again, only the hair would give me away, So, would I be or better yet when she put all that junk on my face, neck, hands, was I black or was i some white boy with no brains?
I have gotten drunk and had a bunch of beer and Bar-B-Que on Saturday afternoons but I( was still just a dumb white boy having a great time with friends, but I was never Black! The same is true of better than 98% of all the "
Christians" in the American Church Body. (Source from the Barna group survey taken in the mid-eighties, before I was a Christian.)
And lets not forget all the abortion clinics that were targeted by Christian terrorists and doctors that were killed by Christian terrorists.
There is no such thing as a Christian Terrorist. The Wesboro people are neither Baptists nor are they, more importantly, any sort of a Christ follower, any more than I am Sam Cook. Believe me, I'm still trying to repent for being mad at Sam' s wife for killing him with that gun. good grief, he was only in bed with one girl!
I'll get flak from the adies here for saying that and I may need you to fly down here to protect me from them.
So, just to make sure I'm clear on where we stand:
1. Blanket statements applied to everyone except Christians - Okay.
2. Blanket statements applied to Christians - Not okay.
Because, I mean, the Qu'ran states that No one should be burned alive or tortured with fire, it condemns the killing of PoWs, or people tied up, or those in captivity, it says that enemy corpses should be returned, along with explicitly stating that residential areas should not be pillaged, plundered or destroyed, and teaches that Muslims should not touch the property of anyone except those fighting against them. (
Source)
No but I am confused, why are you making my case instead of making the decrepit old fossil work for his point?
Ever since Dr. King was first my hero I have been busy trying to open the eyes of white men. I'm still at it. The Black American Muslim has some. very minor, issues they need to deal with but the Muslims of SE Asia, Arabia and, largely, NE and North Africa are a single people of another venue, entirely!
Before this stupid Multiple Sclerosis took my base and my guitars and my profession away I worked with a lot of Drivers that were from Arabia and SE Asia and every one of them admitted that Muhammad, or Mohammad (not sure) was the "Most excellent example of a man that every man must strive to become like."
They are completely aware that he married an eight year old girl but they are quick to defend him with, "But he did not ke love to her until she was nine!" In my world that is one sin sick pervert worthy of thee most horrible forms of death.
ISIS ignore all of these rules set out by the Qu'ran. But as is evident in this thread, people still consider ISIS to be true followers of Islam. So, I ask you, either acknowledge that Islam is a religion of peace and that extremists ruin that image by cherry-picking which parts of their religion to follow, or include all of the groups I've listed above as true Christians.
How about we wait until a conclusion is reached before we start acting superior, hmm?
There is no superiority to be found in this old man! i am a liar, a thief, an adulterer, and I' m guilty of quite a few other things things that send men to Hell! tThe difference between me and anyone else is, "God has forgiven me and I have repented and now serve him because of His unequaled Mercy."