Posted on 06/10/2012 8:10:24 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6
Excerpt:
"If you're considering reading Heresy: Ten Lies They Spread About Christianity by Michael Coren, you'll be well-suited to consider your personal biases. If you're a conservative and a Christian (and particularly if you're a Catholic), this book will go down like sweet, delicious candy. If you're a liberal and/or an atheist, on the other hand...well, it might feel rather like something else.
"The point of Heresy is as bitingly straightforward as Coren's writing style: the West is replete with innuendos, fabrications, and outright malicious lies about Christianity and Christians, and it's time to set the record straight.
"It's pretty clear that Coren, the author of Why Catholics Are Right and a Catholic himself (could you guess?), favors papists in particular, but mainstream Christians of every stripe get their day in the sun in this one. And it is definitely a sun worth basking in."
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/06/the_thankless_task_of_defending_christianity.html#ixzz1xP2lJabb
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
“....the West is replete with innuendos, fabrications, and outright malicious lies about Christianity and Christians....”
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Whoever spread these lies and innuendos concentrate on Christianity alone but do not dare to touch on Islam and leave Buddhism alone.
It seems that the only thing this world hates is Christianity just as its Founder predicted 2000 years ago.
Was Hitler a Christian?
Are you?
The first and still the most popular: You can be like gods.
Yep. Conservative Catholic.
Hitler hated (NOT too strong a word) Christianity for a number of “reasons”. One, he viewed it as a Jewish bastard religion that displaced the robust mythic pagan religions of his imaginary Aryans. Two, it posed a counterweight and threat to the complete obedience and faith in the Leader Principle on which his authority was based. That being said, he is frequently misidentified as a Christian by the fact that, like most Austrians, we was born into a Catholic family.
“he” not “we”
He was born Catholic but rejected it about age 13 in favor of occultism. His adult influences were Neitzsche, Wagner, and Schopenhaur. He hated Christ because he saw him as weak, the complete opposite of the Neitzschean ideal of the “ubermensch.”
Thanks for this post.
“and William Thomson Kelvin of “degrees Kelvin” fame (in Chapter VII, “Christians Are Opposed to Science”).”
There was this wonderful book my high school library had about scientists who became Christians. I don’t know the title offhand, but I’d love to find it again. It might have been published in the 1950s or 1960s.
Did Yah'shua ask us to defend "Christianity" ? or did he just ask us to share the "Good News" ? Did Yah'shua ask to do thankless tasks ?
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
What a really stupid troll question.
When someone attacks Christianity or Christians, be grateful that His perfect Word is only verified by such actions, and the one making all the noise will need the practice, as they're going to spend a long, long time screaming about Christianity. Loudly, though with little effect, if any. Screaming.
And screaming.
8^D
Hitler was a humanist, greatly inspired by the writings of Darwin.
Put that love into action! Search for it (Google/Bing/etc.; maybe call that librarian), and once you find it come back to this thread and share it with us. Inquiring minds want to know.
Yah'shua said:shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiachJohn 7:7
"The world cannot hate you,
but it hates Me
because I testify of it,
that its deeds are evil.
And I hope we recognize that God can and does respond successfully to such attacks--that's his stock-in-trade, for we've all started there. Even if nothing else avails, we are told to pray for such attackers and their ultimate repentance and salvation.
No. He was not.
Doesn't it say in the Bible that whomsoever acknowledges Christ before others here on earth, Christ will acknowledge before the Father and whomsoever denies Christs before others here on earth, Christ will deny him also?
Seems like a need to defend Christianity to me.
exactly, we are called to defend, but with love...
15 Simply proclaim the Lord Christ holy in your hearts, and always have your answer ready for people who ask you the reason for the hope that you have.
16 But give it with courtesy and respect and with a clear conscience, so that those who slander your good behaviour in Christ may be ashamed of their accusations.
G.
The point is that if you offer no defense, then many others are convinced that its enemies are telling the truth. What matters is what tone your defense takes.
The point is that if you offer no defense, then many others are convinced that its enemies are telling the truth. What matters is what tone your defense takes.
What a specious pantload. The Bible tells those of us who read it that the names of all those who will be saved were written in "The Book Of Life" before God laid the foundations of the earth. We are told to spread the good news to the four corners of the earth. This has been done. We are told to be ready with an answer if someone inquires about why we have the hope we do in Christ.
These are things we do out of deep love, and grateful obedience, but nobody who is "lost" gets "saved" as a result, and nobody whose name isn't already in "The Book Of Life" will ever see Heaven, no matter how convincingly or lovingly you argue your points.
What you might just do is allow a hateful atheist a much longer period to spit upon, insult and lie about God and His perfect Word, and that is wrong. The Bible even has a name for it: "Casting pearls before swine."
;-\
If you read the article you would see that that is one of the subjects that the author addresses.
Are you playing the troll card?
Anyway, thanks to all who answered the question for me.
Perhaps not, but there are millions who are being fed lies. Feeding them the truth is an act of kindness. At the very least we should be telling the truth to our children. They will most certainly be assaulted with lies at school, in the media, all around them. Not only does directly confronting the lies with the truth teach them correctly, but it helps them to defend against future lies by becoming more skeptical of worldly "wisdom".
In short, it's a good thing to stand up to calumny.
Amen.
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