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Originally Posted by randilover
I think you might want to expose yourself to more Islam, because to compare the two is ridiculous. You, in your life time, have never been subjected to anything in Christianity that comes close the above the way Islam does.
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Islam and Christianity have many more commonalities, than, say, Hinduism and Christianity. After all, they have both evolved from a common ancestor.
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Originally Posted by randilover
Christianity has no propigation teaching, it has no hostility teaching towards outsiders,.
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It's been mentioned before in this thread. Some folks are
believers, others are
non-believers. The very manner in which it is worded portrays a sense of hostility towards outsiders.
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Originally Posted by randilover
it's conversion tactics are usually along the lines of watching Christians themselves get persecuted and seeing their reaction to their persecutors,.
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or, in the case of the Protestant/Baptist churches I've been to, it involves making the experience as user-friendly and enjoyable as possible. The sermons are practically rock concerts with multimedia presentations. There are cafeterias, book clubs, gymnasiums, rock climbing walls, and basically every single amenity you can think of in order to encourage one to find everything they need at the church. These benefits are better than the ones you can find at the city rec center, that's for sure.
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It is a godless worldview that has taken the hostile position.
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Hostile? What's hostile about a godless worldview?
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I'd also challenge you that we are not necessarily more knowledgable than our predecessors. We may be more technologically advanced, but not really smarter. There are some things that we can not explain of the ancients. (The Great Pyramids are a good example, the levels and lines on those structures are straighter than a laser, how'd they do that?) We may move faster and with more information, but we're not that much smarter.
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Life expectancy has been rising almost exponentially(somewhere between linnearly and exponentially, to be fair) for thousands of years. There are literally tens if not hundreds of thousands of ideas that have contributed to this: Fire. The wheel. Crop rotation. Penecillin(sp). Meteorology.
To stress something, I agree we are not smarter. Each of us still has roughly the same capacity to do a certain amount with the information that is available to us as we did 10,000 years ago. This 'pool of knowledge' has grown, changed, 'evolved' if you will - this is truly a fascinating phenomona. The success that humankind has had, I would argue, is in our ability to pass along and build upon this pool of knowledge, leaving each successive generation with more and more to build upon.
But it is in this ability that I see an opportunity for disaster. Just as knowledge can be added to this pool, it can be modified as well.