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According to scripture (so you christians keep telling me...) your god is omnipotent and omniscient. If he doesn't want religious diversity he can make it disappear in a heartbeat. Why should an omnipotent deity need humans to do its work?
Unless of course your opinion is that your god is not omnipotent. In that case, feel free to ignore this posting.
Greetings my brothers and sisters.
This is my first post, so I apologize if the topic has been done already.
I'm wondering why so many people who claim to believe in our Lord tolerate the existence of other religions and ideological opposition.
According to scripture it is clear that God does not want religious diversity, and he certainly does not want secularism. Also, you've no doubt noticed that due to the blantant non-Christian immorality perpetuated by the mass media and society in general, many people who might otherwise be good, decent Christians are in fact being swayed to a darker path.
What I'd like to know from the other members is why (if you are) you are friendly to people like atheists for example knowing that they want to completely eliminate our faith and drive God from the world. Why tolerate Islam, or any non-Christian faith for that matter?
In other words, why tolerate Satan at all?
Hmm... here I am, a Fundamentalist, reading this unprovoked attack.
Just who was spreading intolerance and persecution again?
According to scripture it is clear that God does not want religious diversity, and he certainly does not want secularism.
What I'd like to know from the other members is why (if you are) you are friendly to people like atheists for example knowing that they want to completely eliminate our faith and drive God from the world.
By 'fundamentalist' I meant someone of any religion (or indeed none) that did not want to accept a free society in which freedom of belief and conscience are basic and inviolable rights. Someone who actively went about trying to destroy such a society, and build a diametrically opposed one. Any attack against those that I would define as fundamentalists would not, in my opinion, be unprovoked. Rather it is provoked by their original attack on the basis of civilised society.
peace
Robbie Francis said:I take it you mean born into a Christian family and not actually born a Christian. No-one is born a Christian, Muslim or whatever, just as no-one is born a Marxist or a Utilitarian.
I find your use of Fundamentalist misapplied then.
Wouldn't your description there be better fitting Dictatorship or Aristocracy?
Or are the recent batch of postings (not just yours) only addressing Fundamentalism simply trying to redefine the term, overlooking the distinction between destruction and opposition, and committing self-contradiction in the process?
Greetings my brothers and sisters.
This is my first post, so I apologize if the topic has been done already.
I'm wondering why so many people who claim to believe in our Lord tolerate the existence of other religions and ideological opposition.
According to scripture it is clear that God does not want religious diversity, and he certainly does not want secularism. Also, you've no doubt noticed that due to the blantant non-Christian immorality perpetuated by the mass media and society in general, many people who might otherwise be good, decent Christians are in fact being swayed to a darker path.
What I'd like to know from the other members is why (if you are) you are friendly to people like atheists for example knowing that they want to completely eliminate our faith and drive God from the world. Why tolerate Islam, or any non-Christian faith for that matter?
In other words, why tolerate Satan at all?
Unfortunately, much of fundamentalism now and throughout history, has and currently seeks to destroy, not just oppose, their enemies, presumably in the name of God.
The way they see it, is a dispensation of justice for God, even it means minimizing, and ultimately destroying those who oppose their aims. For if the very existence of those who refuse to convert or submit to the imposed laws of God is itself disobedience, then disobedience must be crushed.
http://www.serve.com/thibodep/cr/cultman.htm
http://www.serve.com/thibodep/cr/liberty.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_fundamentalism
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/01/17/warwithin.amanpour/index.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38308-2005Apr8.html
Joseph Stalin: "Death solves all problems: no man, no problem."
Fundamentalism: A usually religious movement or point of view characterized by a return to fundamental principles, by rigid adherence to those principles, and often by intolerance of other views and opposition to secularism.
peace
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