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More and more people join the crowd as they push me towards the home of the village headman. I recognize the house — it’s the only one that has a garden with grass growing in it. They throw me to the ground. The village imam speaks to me: “I’ve been told you’ve insulted our Prophet.
You know what happens to anyone who attacks the holy Prophet Mohammed. You can redeem yourself only by conversion or death.” “I haven’t done anything! Please! I beg you! I’ve done nothing wrong!” The qari with his long, well-combed beard, turns to Musarat and the three women who were there on the day of the falsa harvest. Daughters of Asia Bibi hold a photo of their mother, who has been in prison for four years.
Daughters of Asia Bibi hold a photo of their mother, who has been in prison for four years.
“Did she speak ill of Muslims and our holy Prophet Mohammed?”
“Yes, she insulted them,” replies Musarat, and the others join in:
“It’s true, she insulted our religion.”
“If you don’t want to die,” says the young mullah, “you must convert to Islam. Are you willing to redeem yourself by becoming a good Muslim?”
Sobbing, I reply: “No, I don’t want to change my religion. But please believe me, I didn’t do what these women say, I didn’t insult your religion. Please have mercy on me.”
I put my hands together and plead with him. But he is unmoved. “You’re lying! Everyone says you committed this blasphemy and that’s proof enough. Christians must comply with the law of Pakistan, which forbids any derogatory remarks about the holy Prophet. Since you won’t convert and the Prophet cannot defend himself, we shall avenge him.”
Excerpted with permission from “Blasphemy: A Memoir” by Asia Bibi as told to Anne-Isabelle Tollet, published by Chicago Review Press.
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Someday I believe that there are going to be attacks against Christians based on some form of mental illness diagnosis. I think it is not without reason that the left refers to people like us as those loony, right-wing fanatics or right-wing radicals, far-right-wing nut jobs. I think it is by design that they use those kinds of terminologies against us because one day I think there is going to be something in the hand of doctors, something in the hands of the CDC, something in the hands of the government that will be able to classify us a certain way and get us out of the picture...
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The Huffington Post reports that this is not the first time Taylor has written a book about extremism and fundamentalism. In 2006, she wrote a book about mind control titled "Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control," in which she examined the techniques that cultic groups use to influence victims. She said: "We all change our beliefs of course. We all persuade each other to do things; we all watch advertising; we all get educated and experience [religions.]
Brainwashing, if you like, is the extreme end of that; it's the coercive, forceful, psychological torture type." She notes correctly that "brainwashing" which embraces all the subtle and not-so-subtle ways "we make people think things that might not be good for them, that they might not otherwise have chosen to think," is a much more pervasive social phenomenon than we are willing to recognize.
As social animals we are all victims of culturally induced brainwashing whose effectiveness correlates with our inability to think outside the box of our given acculturation.
Originally posted by Openeye
I'm sorry but that Examiner article has it right when they call this a "conspiracy thoery" because there is nothing legitimate about the claim.
Originally posted by TheLotLizard
I for one should think it is a mental illness.
Believing in [color=gold] some imaginary friend in the sky that does nothing before believing in yourself which is capable of anything.
Blowing off all forms of evolution even when it stares you right in the face. Making it seem that your imaginary friend put them all there at one time, even though this is the 1% of diversity left throughout time.
If dinosaurs walked with humans where's the scriptures? No not dragons they fly.
And where did they go, did your friend just get bored and smite them to hell?
If you don't want to be called mental then don't act mental.
Originally posted by TheLotLizard
I for one should think it is a mental illness.
Believing in some imaginary friend in the sky that does nothing before believing in yourself which is capable of anything.
Blowing off all forms of evolution even when it stares you right in the face. Making it seem that your imaginary friend put them all there at one time, even though this is the 1% of diversity left throughout time.
If dinosaurs walked with humans where's the scriptures? No not dragons they fly.
And where did they go, did your friend just get bored and smite them to hell?
If you don't want to be called mental then don't act mental.
Originally posted by UnifiedSerenity
Originally posted by TheLotLizard
I for one should think it is a mental illness.
Believing in some imaginary friend in the sky that does nothing before believing in yourself which is capable of anything.
Blowing off all forms of evolution even when it stares you right in the face. Making it seem that your imaginary friend put them all there at one time, even though this is the 1% of diversity left throughout time.
If dinosaurs walked with humans where's the scriptures? No not dragons they fly.
You obviously have not read your bible. Try the book of Job.
And where did they go, did your friend just get bored and smite them to hell?
No, they actually were killed off suddenly in the last age. Read Genesis chapter 1:1-2. The earth BECAME without form and was made void. I know it sucks to know that the bible really does answer these questions.
If you don't want to be called mental then don't act mental.
You will fit in quite nicely in the New World Order and I will enjoy meeting you one day. God does love you and have a plan for your life whether you know it and accept it or not.
"If the world hates you, remember that the world hated me first. If you belonged to the world, then the world would love you like it loves its own people. But I have chosen you out of the world. So you don't belong to the world. That is why the world hates you. Remember the lesson I told you: A servant is not greater than his master. If people did wrong to me, then they will do wrong to you too. And if people obeyed my teaching, then they will obey yours too." – Jesus Christ
"And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death." Rev 12:11
“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” John 16:33
"Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live" ~ John 11:25
If dinosaurs walked with humans where's the scriptures? No not dragons they fly.
Originally posted by TheLotLizard
I don't see why christians quote the bible.
Dr. Richard Eby was a professor and obstetrician who fell off a second story balcony in Chicago and hit his head and died instantly and found himself in Paradise. When he came back to a bloodless corpse in the hospital morgue, the athiest Doctor refused to believe he was alive and told him to 'shut up and don't give me any of that #' because he knew that Eby had been taken into the hospital as a totally bloodless dead body.
www.abovetopsecret.com...
Jesus, where am I?I gasped! Suddenly in a new body in a new place with new life, I was ecstatically joyful: no pain, no tears, no sorrow, no memory.
Instantly, before I could complete my query, that same Voice in a tone of gentle thunder echoed within my head: "Didn’t you read my book?"
He was speaking to me (in fact, in me) with a speed greater than lightning, and in a language of sweet purity unlike anything that an earthly tongue could utter. I gasped again. I had HIS MIND, impossible as it seemed! Every word clearly meant exactly what was being said. We seemed to have a joint mind: I would ask, and He would answer. (The speed of this communication in such a MIND is hard to describe in human terms. Perchance I can now liken it to a printed page on which the questions being typed have the answers typed upon them, line upon line, at the same time, instantly.)
Yeshua began His answer: "If you had read My Book you would have known all the answers."
"In fact, everything that My children need to know about how God thinks and works and judges and rewards, either before or after the Cross, is already in My Book. That is why I commanded mankind to ‘engrave My Words upon their hearts,’ and to pass them along from generation to generation. I wanted everyone to hear and know just Who I AM, the Messiah, their one hope of Salvation, their Most High God."
Dr. Richard Eby dies, visits heaven, and returns with a startling message
Originally posted by Klassified
When was [color=gold] the last time you had your country bombed, and your relatives brought back to you on a stretcher? No, the middle eastern countries haven't suffered any atrocities and persecution at all, have they? And I would venture to say, most of the multiple thousands that have died in the last decade had nothing to do with what their government and/or religion did. They just wanted to live in peace.
There are extremists in all three of the Abrahamic religions. I don't agree with beating or killing anyone because of their faith, but to think that Christians are the only ones being persecuted in the middle east, is narrow minded, and bordering on delusional. Hell, they even persecute their own. But of course, Christians are the only ones important, because their the only ones right. Right?
Originally posted by TheLotLizard
If dinosaurs walked with humans where's the scriptures? No not dragons they fly.
Not only are dinosaurs mentioned in the Bible but they are presented in the perfect chronological order as taught by modern day science. Although they disappeared, they served a purpose.
Dinosaurs and the Bible
The word ‘dinosaur’ wasn’t invented until 1841 by Sir Richard Owen. Before that time they were known as dragons. For most of human history dinosaurs were known as dragons.
Did you know the word dinosaur was not even in the dictionary in 1891? Again, for most of human history dinosaurs were known as dragons. Dragons are mentioned in the Bible 34 times. Dragons were listed in the dictionary in 1946 as “Now rare.”
What happened to the Dinosaurs?
Originally posted by TheLotLizard
And where did they go, did your friend just get bored and smite them to hell?
"Percy saw all the birds, and beings of Heaven, he saw a chain of monkeys 2-3000 miles long and he saw dinosaurs and flying beasts and animals with human faces and animals he never heard about before, all the living creatures created by God." www.percy-collett.com...
Originally posted by Wertdagf
reply to post by UnifiedSerenity
This what's supposed to happen?...Expecting an old book to tell you the future?
If this is all correct and destined why are you complaining?
Originally posted by Wertdagf
reply to post by mikegrouchy
How many deaths are [color=gold] you going to prevent that god couldn't? In the face of some mastermind deity that's having people murder each other, and doing nothing about it, what is it [color=gold] you hope to accomplish or prevent?