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...Christians, we are told to bear witness to our religious convictions so that others may experience the forgiveness and salvation of Jesus Christ. If people die without a personal relationship with Jesus, they will spend eternity in hell. I believe saving someone from eternal damnation is worth the risk and inconvenience that missionaries face in the Middle East. DARREN THIELGES LaMoure...
...believe that Christians should convert Muslims. I am a Christian by choice, not by birth. I believe wholeheartedly in the teachings of Jesus Christ. So I am not being irreverent in asking these missionaries whether they truly believe that converting the Muslims of the world to Christianity would solve all the problems of the planet. I would rather that these Christians, instead of preaching clandestinely to Muslims, acted openly and channeled their energy and resources to provide succor to the less fortunate of this world. Wouldn't our Saviour be more approving of these actions? Krish N. Pillai Noida, India...
...rather a sordid collection of hold-over clerics from the war. Two men with sagging faces (although they couldn’t have been more than 30 years old) and two elderly nuns whose arms were tattooed with crosses greeted me at the door. “Holy Christ,” I thought instinctively, partaking in their vacant stares, not quite realizing the irony of this thought amidst the devotional community of Dubrave...
...Speaking under a withering mid-day sun, which forced even the locals to tent the day's program on their heads to sneak some relief, Bush compared the slaves struggle to Christ's torment in a speech that repeatedly returned to religious themes. And he said that it was the slaves who kept the light of liberty alive in America, more so even than the publicly pious who had become corrupted by the "peculiar institution." "Christian men and women became blind to the clearest commands of their faith and added hypocrisy to injustice," said Bush. "A republic founded on equality...
Head down Market Street toward the Delaware River, and tucked back on Third and Church streets is Christ Church, which Franklin attended. Parishioners bought their pews in those days, and Franklin chose Pew 70, a little more than halfway back from the altar. Not wanting to purchase a showy front-row seat, he maintained he could hear fine from his pew. Plus, having a pew in the middle meant he could arrive late and leave early, and his dozing was less visible...