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To: SeekAndFind

Yeah, and you see how many bombs and murders these Christians are doing, right? Right?


8 posted on 09/21/2010 5:15:48 PM PDT by vpintheak (Love of God, Family and Country has made me an extremist.)
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To: vpintheak

What these Islamist cannot believe is how attractive Christianity is to a lot of Indonesians.

Christian Missionaries (who are not banned in that country, at least not yet) set up schools, medical clinics and a lot of social work in the rural areas to help a lot of poor and indigent Indonesians.

A lot of these poor folks are nominal Muslims who call themselves such because they were “born into” that religion.

Eventually, many convert and churches begin to sprout.

What many don’t know is this — Indonesia has one of the largest Chinese Christian Church in the world — the Reformed Evangelical Church of Indonesia pastored by Evangelist — Rev. Stephen Tong ( considered sort of the Billy Graham of Southeast Asia among Chinese expats ).

A new building for the Reformed Evangelical Church in Jakarta, the Messiah Cathedral (which includes a 4600-capacity auditorium) was finished in 2008. It took 16 years to persuade the Indonesian government to issue a permit to build the church.

THIS is the phenomenon that scares the daylights of the Islamists.

The Islamists are now fighting back -— not with reason, counter-evagelism or persuasion, but by the use of coercion and force (because that’s the only method they know... after all, their founder did the same thing too ).


9 posted on 09/21/2010 5:24:38 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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