02-08-2005, 09:32 PM
Quote:What's my point:
- Assyrian Christians who lived under persecution and discrimination by Islamic regimes have kept their faith.
If all Muslims are going to be held accountable for what the Turks did during WWI, then I hold every professing Christian here accountable for American slavery and Puritan "savage" cleansing.
I hold you accountable for Constantine and Henry VII.
I hold you accountable for the execution of Tydale and the Spanish Inquisition
I call you to account for the intolerace shown to Muslim "filth" and Jews by the Crusaders
I blame the East for the West (since we're all about generalization here)
But of course, all of this can be expected of a Christian since in his or her Bible, Jesus says ""Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword" Mt.10:34. I mean, after all, "he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one" Lk.22:36.
???Do not give up, for that is ignorance and not according to the rules of this art... Like the lover, you cannot hope to achieve success without infinite perseverance.???