From: rpitts@emperor.gatech.edu (Richard Pitts)
Newsgroups: talk.religion.misc
Subject: Re: LDS Syllogism? ( was Re: Arrogance (was Family values defined))
Date: 8 Oct 92 19:42:44 GMT
Organization: CERL-EE, Georgia Institue of Technology

In article <ksand-071092182549@wintermute.apple.com> ksand@apple.com (Kent Sandvik) writes:
|In article <70146@hydra.gatech.EDU>, rpitts@emperor.gatech.edu (Richard
|Pitts) wrote:
|> 
|> In article <ksand-051092180104@wintermute.apple.com> ksand@apple.com (Kent Sandvik) writes:
|> >The times where people will die due to their beliefs are soon over,
|> >hopefully.
|> 
|> Is this for Christian beliefs only?  Kent today people are dying 
|> all over the world for their beliefs.  Look at the Yugoslavia thing.
|
|That's why I placed the word 'hopefully' at the end of the sentence.
|Actually, I do think that large scale religious wars style medieval
|Europe running down to Jerusalem or killing natives in the name of 
|Jesus are actually over. We have more common sense today.
|
|> Look at all the Islamic persecution of Christianity in the predominantly
|> Islamic countries.  Just last month a Christian preacher was killed
|> in South America by the Shiny Back Gorillas for preaching to his native
|> peoples, as was his grandfather kill a couple of years ago for the 
|> same thing.  Brother Andrew with the Christian ministry Open Doors 
|> (initially smuggling bibles into Communist countries and now Islamic
|> countries) told us Saturday night that more people are dying for their
|> faith today than ever before.
|  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|
|I think this is an overstatement of the grand scale. People die due
|to political and racial fights, that's true. However could you describe
|one single huge war based on religious differences going on today? Don't
|mention Bosnia, because we are dealing with a racial dispute.

Islam and Christianity - you might could call it racial, but some see
it as religous.  I can't say either side is truely representing their
side correctly, but the religious overtones are very strong.

Peru - today just on the radio they mentioned the sentencing or arrest
of one of the leaders of the Shiny Path Gorillas (I said Shiny Back above).
My information says that the gorillas do not want the gospel preached
to the natives and that is why the two above mentioned people were killed.
The last one of the above was killed on Sept 5th, he was to be at a
conference in Atlanta last weekend.

|As I know the major wars going on just now are:
|Bosnia-Serbia - racial war based on conquering of land
|Somalia - internal political war
|
|Actually the only ones I could think of are really local small
|ones that don't get a lot of media attention, those could be 
|huge, however as stated before we are not dealing with huge
|wars based on religious differences. There's actually one
|war front based on the clash between Islam and native religions,
|and that's Sudan. Anyway, I think you just want to believe that
|we are at the final days, the problem is that it's darned hard
|to find those huge wars Jesus predicted :-).

Islam does not like Christians for we say that God has a Son and 
they say he does not.  Ask them.


Sincerely,
Richard Pitts
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