Raven wrote on Mar 13
th, 2017 at 8:07pm:
Grendel wrote on Mar 13
th, 2017 at 10:41am:
Ah no the Crusades and Inquisition and sending out Missionaries to convert the world to Christianity stopped ages ago... only a fool would state otherwise in the SECULAR WEST today these sentiments hardly exist and similarly as practices.
Anyone become a Mormon or Jehovah's Witness lately?
Are you arguing that Christianity doesn't want to convert people to their beliefs?
That is not exactly what I said is it....
there is no Christian state trying to convert the world to Christianity. We have freedom of religion these days, we have secular democracies. Unlike Islamic states.
I said the Secular West is not the same as those nations of the past where they sought to convert all nations to Christianity, much in the same way Fundamental Islam wishes to today. Catholicism and the Papacy does not hold sway as it did in times LONG past.
There is no single Christian state that has that goal in mind. There are no Christian nation states as there are Islamic states. The US or Italy might be the closest on certain levels, but you cannot compare them to the past or current Islamic states. Fundamental Islam lives in the past they claim the Crusades are still happening.
bwian thinks Mormons and Jehovahs witnesses are trying to convert the world to Christianity... they might like it if we all were, but there is no compulsion as there is with Fundamental Islam.
Raven wasn't talking about Christianity as a state but as the religion and it does try to convert people, the TV shows, the pamphlets, the door knocking, the free newspapers.
Just the other day there was s knock at Raven's door. "Excuse me sir, have you heard the Good News"