If feeding the opponent's ego is a sin, then Mr billy is guilty of committing one.
*For example: Assuming I am trying to end a particular cult, the more I attack it, the stronger the cultist associate with themselves. No only does it not achieve my objective, I risk unnecessary trouble on myself. Worse still if the cult is international, I somehow contribute to chaos upon the rest of the world. * My concern is still the same. Is attacking really the best way to deal with this? Lam YongXian 2009/4/3 <[email protected]> > > *Religion of Peace* > > *Iraq* / Christian population as recently as 2000. variously estimated > between > 1 million ( very conservative figure ) to over 2 million, After persecution > and a large number > of violent acts against them since 2003, as well as bomb attacks against a > number of churches, > at least 500,000 have fled the country. > > *Bethlehem* and *Nazareth,* the most identifiably Christian towns on > earth, enjoyed a Christian majority for nearly two millennia, but no more. > In Jerusalem, the decline has been particularly steep: in 1922, Christians > slightly outnumbered Muslims and today they make up less than 2% of the > city's population. > In* Turkey*, Christians numbered 2 million in 1920 but now only a few > thousand remain. > In *Syria*, they represented about one-third of the population early last > century; now they account for less than 10%. > In* Lebanon*, they made up 55% of the population in 1932 and now under > 30%. > Source Daniel Pipes > > > Why has this happened ? > OK, we can identify more than one cause, but there is a common denominator, > Islam. > > To return to the subject of Iraq, at the time of the Arab / Muslim conquest > the Christian population was about 50 %. Some scholar claim an even higher > total. > Even if 50 % is a little high, they were at least a plurality in the > country, and > no-one suggests a number less than 40 %. > > What happened to them ? > > IMHO. all calls for toleration of Islam are suicidal and ultimately > anti-Christian, > not to mention anti-Hindu, anti-Buddhist, and-Zoroastrian, anti-Jewish, and > you name it. > What is the rational justification for toleration of a grossly intolerant > religion ? > > Are some Muslims as people OK ? Of course, and they will be OK in all > probability > as long as they don't take their religion seriously. But what happens when > they do ? > > My apologies for resuming this discussion at a time when the economy > dominates > most people's attention, but the story of the history of Christian faith in > Iraq has > recently come to my attention and, retrospectively or not, and the decline > of > the Christian population under Islam, from approximately one out of two, > to one out of 100, makes me literally feel sick. > > Billy > > > > _______________________________________________ > Centroids mailing list: [email protected] > http://radicalcentrism.com/mailman/listinfo/centroids_radicalcentrism.com > Archives at > http://radicalcentrism.org/pipermail/centroids_radicalcentrism.com/ >
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