[quote]Schwarzfahrer wrote:
terribleivan wrote:
I would add to this thread, but it seems I don’t need to at this time.
BTW - does anyone here know who the most persecuted groups in history are? It’s debateable, but Christians are definitely at the top of the list (much higher than homosexuals considering how so many societiest that have fallen have embrased homosexuality).
Have you ever read a book besides this bible?
Christians one of the most persecuted?
You wish, preacherboy.
There are countless ethnic minorities, small religions or cultures which had to face so much abuse and violence through the centuries that your claim is laughable.
Most of these unlucky groups were victims of catholicism.
And let’s not forget women, who, even today, have often trouble expressing their most basic rights.
The history of christianity is mostly a success story, on the other hand.
After some turbulent beginning decades, which included a few pogroms it became a state religion in Rome. From that point the church and it’s philosphies were gaining might and influence by the years.
Luckily, it’s terroristic reign is slowly coming to an end![/quote]
A few pogroms? So destructive were the forces against Christianity that the period when the Gospel spread throughout Europe, Africa, and Asia is labeled by scholars as the Age of Great Persecution; it lasted for over 300 years until thankfully, St. Constantine the Great made Christianity legal within the Roman Empire. It was a timeline spanning centuries, not decades as you falsely assert.
Your association of Christianity as a terrorist religion is absurd and to equate Roman Catholicism with the original Church (Orthodox Christianity) is nothing but a deceptive, ignorant illusion. Do you know who the Crusades of the Roman Catholics included? If you guessed fellow Christians, you’re right. The Roman Catholics sacked Constantinople in the 1200’s, effectively weakening the Orthodox Christian Church from the left flank so that it could no longer defend Her people from the onslaught on the right which was lead by Muslims waging jihad towards the west.
For you to pinpoint one Christian sect amongst thousands and convey all others within the Faith as being terrorists is unfair and despicable. Why don’t you tell us about how the Baptists terrorize the world, or the Lutherans, or the Orthodox Christians? Because you can’t. There are bad apples in every bunch but to say that one apple has a worm in it doesn’t mean the rest of the batch is rotten.
About the reign of Christianity slowly coming to an end, I don’t need you to point that out because the Fathers of the Church spoke on the issue thousands of years ago. If you check a Bible, you’ll also see that Revelations speaks of men growing faint in heart and turning away from God to follow in their own lusts and worldly passions (like fornication & sodomy).
Jesus Christ states one rhetorical question within the Bible for mankind to ponder… if there’ll be one true Christian on earth when He returns in His glorious Second Coming. So yeah, the reign is slowly coming to an end, exactly as the Church prophesied that it would. It’s bitter-sweet though, because as the world draws closer to what the Orthodox Fathers term [b]maximal sin[/b], we know we’re one step closer to that Glorious Day when Christ shall exalt or humble each and every one of us according to our works of faith here on earth.
And about what terribleivan said about Christianity experiencing persecution - Jesus made it clear that in the last days there’ll be so much slaughter waged by non-Christians against the faithful in wiping us off the face of the planet, that those final days of bloodshed will be unlike any other in the history of mankind. Maybe not in my lifetime, maybe not in the next, but it’s coming somewhere down the line…
Hope you’ve been enlightened. Peace be with you.
