Maybe we grew up in different eras, but I watched PLENTY of news reports of Catholics and Protestants attacking each other. Granted, didn't hear about too many beheadings, they seemed partial to car bombs.
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Bad people do bad things.
I'm bettin if ya took those guys, who are beheading folks, and put them in a world where they were raised a Catholic, they'd find some Biblical justification to chop off some Protestant heads.
It is just what they're gonna do, the particular ideology they cling to is...
Gratitude.
I looked at my life and realised - NO ONE is that lucky. The reality hit me that the situations I had REPEATEDLY been saved from were nothing short of miraculous (literally). Felt compelled to pay towards that debt, with devotion, and also got the feeling that God might one day...
WOW, I'm not sure if everybody will understand how much you actually said in so few words.
VERY thought provoking post.
As for the God of Islam, Judaism, and Christianity, I look at it in a pretty simple way - YES, we all worship the same God, Christians just add one and Jews just deny a...
I am God's creation, I'm HIS, plain and simple. If I made a house out of popsicle sticks, then decided I didn't want it anymore and smashed it..... well, that's MY decision. It really isn't up to the stick house to decide I should treat it as an equal.