Go Ahead Disparage Christianity and the Church but first would you mind listing for me what organization or movement has accomplished...the freeing of slaves? Even today there are people who at the threat of their own personal safety are doing what they can to stop human trafficking.
Maybe you know of and can list organizations or movements that have elevated women. How many Muslim countries have women heads of state, in fact how many non-Christian countries have women heads of state? One maybe two from time to time, but not many! Or here is one, how many places other than in countries with Christian histories do we find women leading major corporations?
Oh, do not forget about the elevating of women in the family and in the society. Does any other major religion require of the adhering husband to love and honor their wives? Can you think of one? How about Islam, does it demand of its children that they honor and obey their parents--no, no, no, not just young girls, no you male children that includes you obeying the mother. Any takers on that one?
Where did the notion of hospice houses that led to hospitals and hostiles originate. It was the tradition of Christians to take the aged, in-firmed, sick, mentally disturbed, other outcasts of society (including female babies who were left to die of the elements), and wayfaring travelers into their own homes and treat them and care for them as if they were family. This care they provided even to pagans who opposed the Christian faith! Then in 325 AD at the Council of Nicea the Pope required that every city that had a Cathedral also have a hospice for the reasons already listed.
How about education? It was Christians who though persecuted for doing so educated the factory children of largely pagan Europe. Oh and where did the Great Enlightenment (an oxymoron to be sure) begin? On the foundations of those educated in Cathedral Schools and Universities which were originated to train men for Christian service. World wide compare the number of people educated because of Christianity with the number educated by or for any other religion. It is not uncommon to find people today who can recite the Qur'an but not read it. It is not common today to find that to be so with the Bible.
Oh and then there are those who say such outlandish, even slanderous things such as, more people have died because of faith in general and Christianity in particular than for any other reason (they conveniently look past the USSR, China, and other communist countries that have slaughtered millions of people). Or here is another, Northern Ireland Christians and Catholics. How many died? Now compare that to the number who died because Muslims cannot get along with their brother Muslims.
Go ahead tout the superiority of Buddhism, Shinto, Taoism, Hinduism, and the currently sacred, do not disparage Muslim religion. Go ahead and believe that all roads lead to god--they do but problem is it is not the god you think nor the God who is! Go ahead and look past that last 2,000 years of Christian history and what responsible Christians and responsible groups of Christians have accomplished for one reason alone. Certainly do not consider that many hundreds of thousands if not millions have left home and security and have gone and in going suffered greatly at the hands of these other faith groups and other godless people. Don't forget to disparage those who packed all of their worldly goods in their casket and then sailed for foreign lands knowing that they would never to return to their homeland and even be buried on foreign shores. Call them misguided since they went not because they were trying to earn their way into paradise--eternal bliss or believed in some kind of Karma experience. No, not at all, not in a million years! They did not do these things because they feared the wrathful vengeance of a vengeful God (sorry Muslims). They did these things because they wanted to obey the Holy Scriptures and in doing so please only one person--their Lord and Master, Jesus Christ. Problem is that if you are not in the same relationship with Him you will never understand them nor will you understand Him.
Even many of those who went on the Crusades, though mistaken in what they did, did so for no other reason than to seek to please their Lord, Jesus Christ. So while you are busy being critical of Christianity and its adherents, seeking to dig up dirt on them, just remember that you would not be enjoying the blessings you do if it was not for them and the sacrifices they made to lay the groundwork that they did.
You remember that the next time you have a sick kid in the ER, or you help in your child's classroom, or you stop at a hotel in your travels, or you give blood at the Red Cross, or someone you know benefits from going to AA, or...
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