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Shyeikul islam1: Are you admitting to the fact that you provided a false information

cleanvessel: It is a pity. Heavens do not recorgnise religion. Religion is only an identity for those who have the same faith.

No wonder Jesus didn't name any religion. None of God's true prophets proclaimed any religion. It does not take anybody to heaven. What takes people to heaven is knowing God through Jesus. Jesus is the only way to heaven.

Yes, Christianity is dwindling in number. You haven't seen anything yet. Jesus said ''when I come back will I find faith on earth''?


Heaven is meant for a few people. Narrow is the way that leads there. Broad is the way that leads to Hell, the population is on daily increase. Jesus said the heavens rejoice if a person repents. For just ONE person who escape Hell. Heaven is not for the majority.

Jesus is not interested in quantity but quality. The Disciples were once up to seventy in number but reduced to twelve in one day. Jesus turned to the remaining twelve and asked them if they would not go away too. He was not interested in population.

vedaxcool: "Logic"boy, liberal interpretation of Christianity like the Anglican church permitting gay bishops etc, christianity is adopting liberals views on its religious teachings . . . tomorrow the ungrateful being in you would call here a cave yet every now and then you sneaked into the cave, poor you!

Shyeikul islam1: In Ireland where chriatains are slaughtering each other. right? But such news cannot make a headline since its not related to islam

tbaba1234: Beautiful piece

I am not an Ex-Christian

I have since learned that this way of life has a name, and like a man who takes off a blindfold, I realised the true colours of all the things I only previously was allowed only to feel. This name is not 'freedom', nor is it 'liberty', but rather it was political system based upon the cult of the individual -otherwise known as 'Liberalism'.

Christianity no longer rules the West - it is long gone. Even the most fanatical of evangelical Christians are but shadows of their ancestors. Liberalism has neutered all religion it encounters, and renders it impotent. Religion used to be the medieval word for what we would call 'Ideology', but now it has only the meaning of a set of spiritual beliefs and rituals. To describe the meaning it once had, people use the new words of 'ideology', or 'worldview', and restrict it only to descriptions for modern day 'religions' of Liberalism (secularism, capitalism, democracy, individualism) and Communism.

But Liberalism defeated Christianity and confined it. So thorough was its defeat of Christianity, that Christians now interpret their bible according to Liberal morality. This leads to absurd situations, as we encounter Christians who debate with Muslims honestly believing that Islam (along with the 'Islamic God') is unjust, because of various laws Islam advocate - DESPITE these exact same laws (or harsher) existing in the bible!


http://abdullahalandalusi.com/2013/09/30/i-am-not-an-ex-christian/

tbaba1234: Beautiful piece

I am not an Ex-Christian

I used to think I left Christianity, but I realise that is not the whole truth. Like many professed Christians in the UK, I was Christian only 'once a week' with regards to practicing the belief. Although I believed in God, and I believed in Jesus as the messiah and had high regard for the Bible - to call Christianity my 'way of life' would have been a stretch of the imagination.

What does having a 'way of life' even mean? If a way of life meant calling oneself an adherent of a religion, practicing it once a week, and saying prayers before going to sleep - then yes, christianity was my 'way of life'. But the truth was, my way of life wasn't Christianity - for how can something be the way I live my life when it has so little manifestation in my life, and didn't contribute any purpose to it. I lived my life WHILE being a Christian, not BECAUSE of it.

http://abdullahalandalusi.com/2013/09/30/i-am-not-an-ex-christian/

tbaba1234: Beautiful piece

I am not an Ex-Christian

Religion can never be separated from politics, because religion WAS about politics - it was about life, about how to live every facet of it, about its very purpose.


http://abdullahalandalusi.com/2013/09/30/i-am-not-an-ex-christian/

frosbel: Some Muslims are fond of condemning western morality – alcoholism, nudity, premarital sex and homosexuality often being cited as examples. But Muslims do not have a monopoly on morality. In the west, child marriages and sex with children are illegal. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for many Muslim countries.

I recently saw the documentary on the Dancing Boys of Afghanistan. It exposed an ancient custom called "bacha bazi" (boy for play), where rich men buy boys as young as 11 from impoverished families for sexual slavery. The boys are dressed in women's clothes and made to dance and sing at parties, before being carted away by the men for sex. Owning boys is considered a symbol of status and one former warlord boasted of having up to 3,000 boys over a 20-year period, even though he was married, with two sons. The involvement of the police and inaction of the government means this form of child prostitution is widespread.

The moral hypocrisy is outrageous in a country where homosexuality is not only strictly forbidden but savagely punished, even between two consenting adults. However, men who sodomise young boys are not considered homosexuals or paedophiles. The love of young boys is not a phenomenon restricted to Afghanistan; homosexual pederasty is common in neighbouring Pakistan, too. In my view, repression of sexuality and extreme gender apartheid is to blame.

And in the Middle East, it's young girls who are considered desirable and men are able to satisfy their lusts legally through child marriages. In Yemen, more than a quarter of girls are married before the age of 15. Cases of girls dying during childbirth are not unusual, and recently, one 12-year-old child bride even died from internal bleeding following sexual intercourse. In another case, a 12-year-old girl was married to an 80-year-old man in Saudi Arabia.

So why is the practice of child marriage sanctioned in Muslim countries? Unfortunately, ultra-conservative religious authorities justify this old tribal custom by citing the prophet Muhammad's marriage to Aisha. They allege Aisha was nine years old when the prophet married her. But they focus conveniently on selected Islamic texts to support their opinions, while ignoring vast number of other texts and historical information, which suggests Aisha was much older, putting her age of marriage at 19. Child marriage is against Islam as the Qur'an is clear that intellectual maturity is the basis for deciding age of marriage, and not puberty, as suggested by these clerics.

Whatever one's view on the prophet's marriage, no faith can claim moral superiority since child marriages have been practised in various cultures and societies across the world at one time or another. In modern times, though, marrying children is no longer acceptable and no excuse should be used to justify this.


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I wonder how, then, Muslims can remain silent when it comes to the sexual abuse of children?

tiarabubu: Why are you more worried about white priests and oyinbos while you ignore a bigger problem in your own backyard? They are perfecting their system, dealing with crimes committed decades ago, and allowing people like you in to make a life and religion in relative peace. Your own people have not guaranteed that for others neither have their system ensured justice for young girls and even babies (as evidenced by that fatwa) nor for religious minorities and you come here to talk of bigotry.Some of us tell it as it is. That aint bigotry.

Please remove the log in your eyes before talking about the speck in another man's.

Babadeen: Before someone tries to shut me up with a ban. I am saddened that these Bosnian muslims were killed and slaugtered mercilessly. I am horrified and sad at any tragedy.

deols: I assumed you'd be smart enough to realise that wanting to be ban simply summarises all your actions.

After warning u about using bin bag as a word to describe u know what, u went ahead to use it again. something was obvious from that. You either were testing my powers or really wanted the ban. So, I served both purposes and made it long enough to make a statement.

I assume you are aware that having multiple i.ds is against the rule. paris-love may have to go soon as well

vedaxcool: From thaba is very justified to ignore a hypcorite who mocks the death of christians in the hands of atheist Stalin and suddenly finds their death an avenue to engage in headless argument!

okunoba: "No compulsion in religion" but the holy prophet {pbuh} upon conquering mecca destroyed all the idols of the pagans. Actions speaks louder than words, there is compulsion in Islam. If no be by force he would have let the pagans do their thing, who is he to force his religious believe on others. He was complaining of being prosecuted but when he got power he did the same thing he was complaining about. So in a nutshell Islam was founded on hypocrisy and the use of force. Back to the topic, Islam was spread in west Africa through brutal force and trade.

I expect to be insulted and called names as that is the only way our muslim brothers on Nairaland know how to debate.

Paschal007: Lol why did u quote urself just to post a smile? Udo a di kwa?

maclatunji: To whom, a Non-Muslim? Null and void ab initio.

vedaxcool: [size=18pt]Well normal human beings accord religious people respect[/size], you have gotten an answer you simply want to banter a little more, I said obeying God is paramount, when one obeys God, the person earn God favour, like obeying your dad or mum, obedient people people tend to enjoy favour from those they obey, it is that simple, hijab is a component of a long lists of does and don't s! i can repeat your statement as follows:

Woman ( Mac won't be happy if I use the B word), believe me when I say I am not in disfavour with God when I do not observe the Sabbath, I don;t believe the more you observe the Sabbath the more you have an elevated stand with God, no, if it was by Sabbath alone, we won't have so much wickedness in the world.

keep inventing straws to argue with, no muslim have said merely observing the use of hijab is enough, Islam has a wide variety of laws, being kind to ones neighbour, prayers, kindness, honesty, obeying God draws one closer to God! this is plain and simple!