only 40%? I suppose if you count the entire population (including muslims) this number would reflect reality. . .but if you remove the muslim percentage of the population from the poll, one would think the percentage would soar above 60%.
... if you remove the muslim percentage of the population...
Wednesday, January 05, 2011 1:45:00 am
Anonymous said...
heh! I like it.
Wednesday, January 05, 2011 2:44:00 am
cjk said...
Actually it is incredible that only 40% can see the obvious reality in front of their eyes. In my opinion it is largely the result of atheism and relativism. Without the widespread belief in those philosophies, this colonization by primitive savages would be impossible.
As Christians, we actually do need to tolerate other people's faiths. Christ died for our Freedom as much as He died for our Sins. By that I mean, God could have handled the problem of sin's entry into the world by wiping us out, or by making us automatons, but he chose to die for us, which means he believed in our existence, and in our Freedom.
See what I mean?
So, point is, how is a Christian, WHO DOESN'T REALLY THINK THAT MUCH, supposed to react to the excesses of another religion?
Christians believe they should tolerate others.
But, because we don't think enough, we allow things to go too far.
It would seem obvious that the fruits of Islam are demonic. There really, by way of comparison, is nothing much demonic about Buddhism.
So, there you go.
Wednesday, January 05, 2011 1:17:00 pm
cjk said...
It's not the Christians themselves who usually do the fighting, but rather a society influenced by them. Christ describes Christians as 'the salt of the earth'; that seasoning keeps society at large from decaying into what we now have. If the salt is neutralized by a predominance and errant and false philosophies, society will then rot. Christianity doesn't tell men to fight, it just tells them what's true and righteous. It points out the obvious differences between good and evil with authority which is exactly what seems to be lacking in the Western mind.
Wednesday, January 05, 2011 4:30:00 pm
In other words, 40% of French and Germans see reality for what it is.
[Image] From AFP:
Paris - Four in 10 French and German people see Muslims living in their country as a "threat", according to a poll published on Tuesday by French newspaper Le Monde.
Forty-two percent of French people and 40% of Germans questioned by pollster Ifop said they considered the presence of a Muslim community in their country "a threat" to their national identity, Le Monde said.
The findings of the study "go beyond linking immigration with security or immigration with unemployment, to linking Islam with a threat to identity", said Jerome Fourquet of Ifop, quoted by Le Monde.
Of the sample of people questioned for the survey in early December, 68% in France and 75% in Germany said they considered Muslims "not well integrated in society".
Out of these, 61% of French and 67% of Germans blamed this perceived failure on "refusal" by Muslims to integrate.
Eighteen percent of those who said Muslims were not integrated in France and 15% in Germany blamed it on "racism and lack of openness by certain French and German people".
France has the largest Muslim population in Europe, estimated at about six million, originating largely from its former colonies in North Africa. It has passed a law banning the wearing of the face-covering Muslim veil in public.
Germany received vast numbers of migrant workers, most of them from Muslim Turkey, from the 1960s. German federal authorities estimate its current Muslim population at up to 4.3 million.
6 Comments
Close this window Jump to comment formonly 40%?
I suppose if you count the entire population (including muslims) this number would reflect reality. . .but if you remove the muslim percentage of the population from the poll, one would think the percentage would soar above 60%.
Wednesday, January 05, 2011 1:35:00 am
Let me fix that for you:
... if you remove the muslim percentage of the population...
Wednesday, January 05, 2011 1:45:00 am
heh! I like it.
Wednesday, January 05, 2011 2:44:00 am
Actually it is incredible that only 40% can see the obvious reality in front of their eyes.
In my opinion it is largely the result of atheism and relativism.
Without the widespread belief in those philosophies, this colonization by primitive savages would be impossible.
Wednesday, January 05, 2011 4:40:00 am
As Christians, we actually do need to tolerate other people's faiths. Christ died for our Freedom as much as He died for our Sins. By that I mean, God could have handled the problem of sin's entry into the world by wiping us out, or by making us automatons, but he chose to die for us, which means he believed in our existence, and in our Freedom.
See what I mean?
So, point is, how is a Christian, WHO DOESN'T REALLY THINK THAT MUCH, supposed to react to the excesses of another religion?
Christians believe they should tolerate others.
But, because we don't think enough, we allow things to go too far.
It would seem obvious that the fruits of Islam are demonic. There really, by way of comparison, is nothing much demonic about Buddhism.
So, there you go.
Wednesday, January 05, 2011 1:17:00 pm
It's not the Christians themselves who usually do the fighting, but rather a society influenced by them.
Christ describes Christians as 'the salt of the earth'; that seasoning keeps society at large from decaying into what we now have. If the salt is neutralized by a predominance and errant and false philosophies, society will then rot.
Christianity doesn't tell men to fight, it just tells them what's true and righteous. It points out the obvious differences between good and evil with authority which is exactly what seems to be lacking in the Western mind.
Wednesday, January 05, 2011 4:30:00 pm