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To: ColdSteelTalon
I have a long time best friend who is an atheist, hates the name Jesus, detests and mocks Christianity, he is an elegant, successful artist and intellectual and proudly English (he sees England superior to everywhere else, including his home for the last 50 years), he never became a citizen although he was here 15 years already before I met him in the mid 1970s.

Something that frustrates me is that now that I am in a position to finally win our argument about the effects of a diminished Christianity in Western Civilization by having the easy evidence of Britain/Europe and Islam, the internet articles, the videos, he is too old for me to hound him about it and break his heart.

He is an old British Commando from the end of WWII, and is in his mid 80s, while he functions fine, I just don't want to make such a prolonged, in depth deconstruction of something so basic to him as his English identity, and what Islam has done to his homeland. He and millions of intellectuals like him succeeded in weakening Christianity in the West, but they didn't realize that it was the oppression of Islam riding towards the West, not an enlightened atheism.

If I were rich I would send him home for a visit and let him discover it for himself.

12 posted on 05/31/2012 6:27:04 PM PDT by ansel12 (Massachusetts Governors, where the GOP now goes for it's Presidential candidates.)
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To: ansel12
If I were rich I would send him home for a visit and let him discover it for himself.

Does he have family over there? it might be worth taking a collection to send him back for a look see. :)

22 posted on 05/31/2012 8:52:56 PM PDT by ColdSteelTalon (Light is fading to shadow, and casting its shroud over all we have known...)
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To: ansel12
Something that frustrates me is that now that I am in a position to finally win our argument about the effects of a diminished Christianity in Western Civilization by having the easy evidence of Britain/Europe and Islam, the internet articles, the videos, he is too old for me to hound him about it and break his heart.

Just lovingly tell your friend the Gospel. It is what he needs if he is to be saved. There is power in God's Word that breaks down barriers. Many who think that they hate Christianity have never heard a simple telling of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

30 posted on 06/01/2012 11:07:14 PM PDT by Bellflower (The LORD is Holy, separated from all sin, perfect, righteous, high and lifted up.)
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