RE: [microsound] war & religious fanatism

[ixxe13 <ixxe13@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Rudy,

I agree with what you're saying. Basically, again, it's freedom 
of  choosing your religion, political allegence and use of your freedom of 
speech.  I was looking for that very article but I couldn't find the link 
again. I dont think that some crasy christians fanatic red neck  running 
hot on the heel of soldiers would convince muslims to consider 
christianity. They would more likely to split more people than unite them, 
leading to the kind of things that's happening right now I'm afraid. Dont 
get me wrong, I'm a white dude and catholic raised,(altough I dont really 
believe all that mumbo jumbo). so I'm not really taking side . The "One 
track minds" of any background are basically the problem I guess.  The 
Buchevites are not out there to promote freedom that's for sure. It's money 
power, that's all it is.  Ask that Graham dude to leave behind all is Money 
or better yet, give it to the Iraqi people and go to that country and help 
the needy Iraqis by reconstucting with his hands on the fields where it 
count to see what he would do. Cause that's what The Catholic religion is 
suppose to be about. Giving to the one who need the most and protect the 
children and so on. Ooops, not exacly what is happening. Like somebody 
said, bombing for peace is like fucking for virginity. And you know, Muslim 
recognise and accept Jesus in their religion. He's one of the prophets for 
them. (according to a praticing muslim friend of mine from Algeria) I was 
quite surprise to learn about that one.
Anyway, We're not out of the wood yet, I'm afraid.

take care
Ciao

At 02:38  09/04/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>Hello Dagmar and spw;
>
>I need to chime in on this one as it bothers me what I'm reading here.
>I don't have a major problem with Christians evangelizing in Iraq.  I
>have a problem with Protestants evangelizing with handouts.  Iraq had
>many Christians before Islam cut a great deal of them down or forced
>them to convert.  Thankfully, there are some remnants in the Assyrian
>and Chaldean communities, but thanks mainly to economic pressures,
>they've gone from 25% of the population to about 2-3% today.  Something
>like Greek Orthodox or Roman Catholic Christians should keep their
>presence there.  If people want to hear it, and have a choice, there
>shouldn't be a problem.  If people are happy being Muslim, then may they
>continue on their path to God, fair enough.
>
>But there should be a choice.  It strikes me as being a horribly wrong
>set of circumstances when Rome and Athens have mosques, but Saudi Arabia
>has not a single Christian Church in the whole of their land.  Until
>there is some sort of religious freedom out there (including the right
>to not believe in anything, if one so desires), they deserve to have
>Christians ministering to them.
>
>Regards,
>
>Rudy

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