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DHS confirms arrest of Afghan man in Texas after bomb threat video surfaces online

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It is? It sounds like every call for revival and evangelism that I've ever heard. I guess that could be considered aggressive, but that strikes me as an odd thing for a Christian to throw shade at

That's nice. But I'm not an Evangelical, and I'm not discussing Evangelical Christianity... So.
 
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Just one day before the Terrorist attack against our @NationalGuard, another Afghan national who was paroled into the United States under Biden’s Operation Allies Welcome was arrested for threatening to blow up a building in Fort Worth.


Mohammad Dawood Alokozay
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Terrifying! Lord have mercy!
 
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It is? It sounds like every call for revival and evangelism that I've ever heard. I guess that could be considered aggressive, but that strikes me as an odd thing for a Christian to throw shade at.



There are some, sure.


You can talk about whatever the mods permit.
In Islam there is a “sixth pillar” known as jihad which wants to make society as a whole more Islamic. How one interprets that depends on the culture and individual. Evangelical Christianity cannot be compared to Islam.
 
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No one mentioned evangelical Christianity. This isn’t about them.

Did you miss the point of my comments?

The video was presented as him doing something bad, undesirable, or "aggressive." My comments pointed out that he's not doing anything that thousands of other evangelicals before him have done and continue to do every Sunday.

In Islam there is a “sixth pillar” known as jihad which wants to make society as a whole more Islamic. How one interprets that depends on the culture and individual. Evangelical Christianity cannot be compared to Islam.
On this point, you're very, very wrong. "Making society as a whole more Christian" is exactly what the 7 Mountain Mandate seeks to do. It's a core tenet of the theology driving a lot of the swell in Christian Nationalism and it's also infused a lot of branches of evangelicalism that aren't explicitly Dominionist.

Dominionism isn't explicitly violent the was that "jihad" is often interpreted, but it does seem to becoming more tolerant of it.
 
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On this point, you're very, very wrong. "Making society as a whole more Christian" is exactly what the 7 Mountain Mandate seeks to do. It's a core tenet of the theology driving a lot of the swell in Christian Nationalism and it's also infused a lot of branches of evangelicalism that aren't explicitly Dominionist.
doing you a solid!

take this link, and go start your own thread. Thank you!

 
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Did you miss the point of my comments?

The video was presented as him doing something bad, undesirable, or "aggressive." My comments pointed out that he's not doing anything that thousands of other evangelicals before him have done and continue to do every Sunday.


On this point, you're very, very wrong. "Making society as a whole more Christian" is exactly what the 7 Mountain Mandate seeks to do. It's a core tenet of the theology driving a lot of the swell in Christian Nationalism and it's also infused a lot of branches of evangelicalism that aren't explicitly Dominionist.

Dominionism isn't explicitly violent the was that "jihad" is often interpreted, but it does seem to becoming more tolerant of it.
Oh, my mistake. Apologies.

I’ve never heard of 7 Mountain Mandate. Thanks for the info. Then again, I don’t come from an evangelical or fundamentalist background.

Peace
 
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MOD HAT ON

This thread has been cleaned of some flaming of charismatic and evangelical Christians.​

Let's try to get back on topic, and away from comparing Christians to Islamic congregations and saying that they are basically the same.​

MOD HAT OFF

 
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Bondi Beach shooting: One of the gunmen who shot and killed 11 people at a Jewish gathering at Bondi Beach in Sydney earlier today, has been identified as Naveed Akram. Police confirmed that Akram, 24, was shot during their operation

Akram, who is of Pakistani origin, had studied at Central Queensland University in Sydney, and was previously associated with Hamdard University in Islamabad and the Al Murad Institute,

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SYDNEY, Dec 14 (Reuters) - A bystander captured on video tackling and disarming an armed man during Sunday's deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach has been hailed as a hero whose actions saved lives.

Footage circulating on social media shows a man, named by local media as 43-year-old fruit shop owner Ahmed al Ahmed, in a car park wearing a white shirt charging at a man in a dark shirt who is holding a rifle.
 
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Turns out the Hannukah party was primarily a children's event, with face painting, bubbles and food. A two month old was among the dead.

In the meantime, the killing is being celebrated by X users. In the following link, you can see how many times a "fire" emoji was used, that means they like terrorists shooting up children's events.

 
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