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To: DooDahhhh

So...your fellow Christians get hung out to dry because they have “STRANGE NAMES”??? Are you serious? Guess what...from their POV, doubtless YOU have a “strange name,” too.

These people have suffered more for the Faith than you or I EVER will in 100 lifetimes. They are being killed, displaced from their homes, or otherwise driven out of several predominantly Muslim countries, including Pakistan. And all you can say is that you can’t care about these people at all because their names are tiresome to read! There’s not much any of us can do for them in a material sense, but we CAN at least pray for them. They need our prayers. We supposedly believe that prayer for each other is a good thing and efficacious, no? Wouldn’t it help if our attitudes reflected a genuine concern for them, as we pray for them? Dismissing them as somehow less important than we are because they have “strange names” certainly makes God want to act on our prayers, I’m very sure.

The Christian minorities of the Middle East are a living witness to Christ and the Truth of His Faith, in a land that has long since perverted what little understanding they had of it long, long ago. Soon, there won’t be any of them left, at the rate we’re going. You write them off, and you write off whatever witness they can make to their benighted Muslim overlords.

Shame on you, and anyone else of the same opinion, for disparaging these people, and making fun of their desperate situation. You better hope that the day doesn’t come when you or your children are in similar straits at the hands of secularist atheists, or even Muslims. Because, if that day ever comes, there will be NO ONE to help you in lands where your name isn’t “strange,” since they’ll be in the same boat, and the Christians left in other lands just might be disinclined to help those of us with the “strange” names, who brought their fate on themselves by derisively dismissing the plight of others a generation earlier.

What a crew!!


10 posted on 12/21/2008 7:16:01 AM PST by magisterium
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To: magisterium

Sorry, I was talking about those burning the homes, etc. Maybe the Christian ones have strange names, too. Probably do. No, you have to admire those Christian ones; they risk it all.


11 posted on 12/21/2008 7:21:27 AM PST by DooDahhhh (AMEN)
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