This past week in class I brought in several articles where Christians were blamed for absurd things. One was an attack by Muslims on Christians in Nigeria because they beleived Christian had prayed for the death of one of their leaders. Apparently Islamic protest had derailed and evangelical conference in the area shortening it to 2 days from the scheduled 5 and forcing it to change locations for security concerns. When one of the Islamic leaders was later involved in a car crash and eventually passed on the Muslims in the area attributed this to the belief that Christians had prayed harm on him and also prayed for him to die. Much violence ensued. The second article had to do with Hindu's attacking Christian communities in India. Christian missionaries had built several popular schools and hospitals in the area and were being successful in prostelytizing locals into the Christian faith. When a Hindu prostelytizer was killed by Maoists rebels (Some terrorist group that took credit for the killing) a band of extremist Hindus decided to blame it on the Christians and attacked.
We talked a little about why do people blame Christians for what befalls the. I know this is not an absolute but it is a very common practice even here in America. I have some thoughts and suspect it is a multi-layered issue that can be looked at very simply or very complicated. I thought I'd solicit you alls thoughts... talk to me peeps!!! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Crosspointe Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/crosspointe-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
