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26/02/2008 Information...do we really want it?I have a pressing issue on my mind...it's the Muslims. There's this OP in #christiandebate who is either an ex-Muslim, or had a lot of dealings with Muslims...anyway, the more I learn about Islam's doctrines and practices, the more scarier (and serious) the spread of Islam seems to me. (I'll call him MuzOp) If you been reading my past entries, you'll find that I struggle with respecting Muslims and their culture, and I still do make a conscious effort to treat everyone the way I'd like to be treated. But to tell you the truth, the more I read up on the hadiths and their doctrines, the more I feel like taking our Muslim debaters and shaking some common sense into them. How can they possibly believe things like drinking camels' urine and making sure you don't fart in prayer or else Allah won't hear you? Anyway, MuzOp gave us this video: http://www.muhammadtube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=d7fbdea1afc51c7c6ad2 ...I just about died laughing at it...it's a good comedy...yet it has a serious message behind it. It even shows Bible and Qu'ran verse references to back up the information in the video. The actual site itself is fairly new...only a couple of weeks old, I think. http://www.muhammadtube.com
Now, too bad they don't have something like seventhdayadventisttube or popetube and expose the Seventh-Day Adventists (particularily their Investigative Judgment doctrine and the plagurization of Ellen G. White) and the Roman Catholics (dependancy on the Vatican instead of looking solely to Scripture and Messiah Yeshua.)
Information...hmmm...it can either strengthen us or kill us..... 03/02/2008 Golden RuleSometimes life is so hard one doesn't know how to cope. Problems seem bigger than what they really are. And yet at the same time, life teaches such valuable lessons. Sometime it feels like I can't be myself, or others will jump at me or ostracize me. And yet I want to simply be me. How to know when I offend someone...where does one find the balance? Is it control? Or is it respect?
Why must Christians judge each other, instead of all getting along, no matter what our social station in life is? There's this one guy on IRC, who I just started to consider a true friend...he has told me that disabilities don't matter...it is what's inside that count. Such a wonderful, Christ-like attitude...I only hope more and more Christians IRL at my own parish will adopt such an attitude.
Treat others the way you would like to be treated...the Golden Rule in every major world religion. Such an important "rule" in society that unfortunately gets pushed to the side. Though I may not be perfect, and not trusting people that easily, I do try and keep that Golden Rule as much as possible. It is very hard to go by that to someone I don't like at all. On the other hand, I understand I'm not going to get along with every one of 7 billion people on this earth as well.
Ah well, one can only try their best in life, eh? |
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