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Old 04-06-2019, 11:57 PM
 
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
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https://churchpop.com/2019/03/01/isi..._hsmi=70406500

ISIS Brutality Drove These Muslims to Christian Conversion: “Their God is Not My God”
ISIS to me represents the damage that religion can do to mankind.

We just had a ***head massacre a number of innocent people, including women and children, out of some .... I don't know what. A disgrace to humanity is all I can say. And in my peaceful country!
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Old 04-07-2019, 12:20 AM
 
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ISIS to me represents the damage that religion can do to mankind.

We just had a ***head massacre a number of innocent people, including women and children, out of some .... I don't know what. A disgrace to humanity is all I can say. And in my peaceful country!
Some crazies will always use religion to do evil in it's name for their own benefit----whatever that is. But don't through the baby out with the bath water.
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Old 04-07-2019, 12:28 AM
 
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https://www.samaritanspurse.org/arti...dnLWkx3um0By9g

Emergency Field Hospital Opens, Expanding Medical Care in Mozambique


Samaritan’s Purse medical staff is meeting physical and spiritual needs in devastated Buzi.

Missionaries bring more than religion to the people.
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Old 04-07-2019, 07:15 AM
 
Location: central Florida
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Whole Christian villages wiped out, media silent - Metro Voice News


"Another week. Hundreds more dead and wounded Christians lay in villages in Nigeria while the world sleeps. Brothers and sisters in Christ were the target of yet more bloody attacks in the last seven days as Boko Haram terrorists captured the town of Michika in Nigeria’s far eastern state of Adamawa.

It was a scorched earth attack with little left standing and few people left alive.This time, however, the terrorists exchanging fire with government troops but the response was not enough to save families.

According to an op-ed in the Washington Examiner by journalist Douglas Burton, the attack continued for hours with an unknown number of casualties, although initial reports mentioned: “scores killed.” Burton is a member of the advisory board for Save the Persecuted Christians (STPC), which advocates on behalf of more than 300 million persecuted Christians around the globe."

So sad no reporting of this in our media.
If a story is not of benefit to the US military-industrial complex, so as to justify military incursion, then its ignored.

It didn't happen.

Why the shock and surprise? American bureaucracy doesn't care. Didn't you know that?

American media, owned by six major corporations and heavily influenced by the intelligence community, peddles its tabloid trash to an American public that is increasingly gullible and incapable of independent thinking.

It's been known for years that the current population gets its information from bits of flashing light on TV, computer screens and game consoles. Its even taught in schools. Every kid who can work his or her fingers on a keyboard, beginning at pre-school ages, are taught to use the technology. I've personally watched pre-school kids chew on mouse cords as they gaze with dazed eyes into a monitor screen. Instead of working with real objects in a real world they are taught to play with entertaining images.

This hypnotic diet is force fed to us from the time we awake until the last hour of the day. Nothing that happens beyond the boundaries of this form of information exists for us.

Therefore stories about American war crimes, murder of innocent Christians, or atrocities perpetuated against Jews - never happen. If it isn't in the news it didn't happen.

The solution has also been known for years. Throw away the computer screens, shut off the TV, and refuse the use of computer games. But that isn't going to happen is it?

Meanwhile real people suffer and die - while Americans play games, feast on TV lies and have no idea at all what's happening to them.

that's me, hollering from the choir loft...

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Old 04-07-2019, 07:25 AM
 
Location: Florida
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I don’t see it as moral or immoral to convert Africans
Its obvious that you don't, but Jesus did and instructed His followers to spread the Gospel.

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I see that if people are killed for being christians then perhaps missionaries should have been warning them of the possibility.
How do you know they didn't? Jesus did, and His followers knew it better than anyone.
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Old 04-07-2019, 07:36 AM
 
Location: Florida
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Missionaries bring more than religion to the people.
Of course. Know a missionary couple who lived in the Congo/Zaire for 30+ years. They were doctors, and gave medical care to countless people.

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Old 04-07-2019, 08:49 AM
 
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Missionaries bring more than religion to the people.
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Of course. Know a missionary couple who lived in the Congo/Zaire for 30+ years. They were doctors, and gave medical care to countless people.

Medical care? Keeping people out of heaven....

didn't prayer work?

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Old 04-07-2019, 08:53 AM
 
Location: Ontario, Canada
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Whole indigenous communities and cultures in dozens of countries have been virtually - and in some cases literally - wiped out in the past 150 years - "thanks" to missionaries. Who, along with bringing "god" to the godless, bring disease and corruption.

The media wasn't just silent. It was complicit. Religionists have blood on their hands which won't wash away.
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Old 04-07-2019, 09:33 AM
 
Location: Elsewhere
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Would be best if different religions could live together peacefully. We do here, but Muslims cannot convert or they will be killed. Killing Christians won't take care if that is the problem. Many Muslims are converting anyway.
There's a woman in my church who is from Ghana, and she said that where she comes from, there is no conflict between Muslims and Christians. She says sometimes the Christians decide to fast in daylight during Ramadan, although their motivation might be to lose weight, but some of them do it along with their coworkers. She also said that in Ghana, Christians still observe the entire Christmas season and so there are parties all the time from Christmas to Epiphany, and their Muslim neighbors and friends are invited and join them.
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Old 04-07-2019, 11:22 AM
 
Location: Arizona
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There's a woman in my church who is from Ghana, and she said that where she comes from, there is no conflict between Muslims and Christians. She says sometimes the Christians decide to fast in daylight during Ramadan, although their motivation might be to lose weight, but some of them do it along with their coworkers. She also said that in Ghana, Christians still observe the entire Christmas season and so there are parties all the time from Christmas to Epiphany, and their Muslim neighbors and friends are invited and join them.
A block party?
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