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The Catholic church has been using Jesuits to start and run Catholic schools in Canada probably for 500 years. Do you think it might have more to do with trying to make Catholics out of them or Anglicans in a smaller number of schools? Of course they would think they needed to irradicate the Indian in them. It was a disastrous endeavour.

They will squirm out of this, just like they have been doing for ages with the priest's abuse issue. Trudeau cares little for Canadians. Why do you think he committed billions of dollars to the third world? Why is he hammering Canadians with carbon taxes and carbon pricing? There may have been a certain number of teachers who were just doing their job of teaching and not involved in the abuse. It seems a little strong to tar every teacher as a bad actor. But overall it was a disaster. The bad overshadows any good teacher that might have been there. I met a native man a few years ago who said he had his mouth washed out with soap in a residential school and he also showed me a scar he got there.

Context in the bible is essential to understand the meaning. On Luke 19:27 it is very important. It is part of a parable. http://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/23932/what-does-bring-them-here-and-kill-them-in-front-of-me-in-luke-1927-mean

Yes, I think you are correct. How long have you been a Muslim believer?

Anti Semitism has been going on for 2000 years in Europe. It is on the increase at present.

It would be pointless to try to point it out to you if you don't already know. It's not up to me to provide statistics and studies. If you are serious about finding out, you can do some googling yourself.

I should have used the small "l" as in liberal. That includes a lot of conservatives too. Open borders is what is destroying Europe. The word liberal with a small "l" means open-minded, not prejudiced, etc. I am saying that is the issue.

You are free to believe that, but I would point out that the teachings of Jesus in the Bible would not support wife-beating at all. The fact the people of any religion are doing it only proves they are not following the teachings of their professed religion if it is christianity or following a religion which condones wife beating. Either way the bible would condemn it.

Does it matter who created western civilization? Western civilization simply evolved from previous civilizations like the Roman Empire and then the Holy Roman Empire. You seem to have a phobia about conservatives.

I still don't see how a petition opposing Sharia law is SPAM and extreme right-wing campaign.

It is mainly the liberal left that is allowing the takeover of western civilization.

That's a contradiction. What is far right about opposing Sharia Law?

That is surprising. I am not a fan of the RCC. I grew up in it but left it 37 years ago when I heard the gospel. I have studied the RCC teachings quite a bit and read several books on it in order to be more knowledgeable on the subject, but I have never come across anything on the subject of wife beating. Most of the dogmas are very unbiblical. There were small groups of bible-believing christians in parts of Europe before the Reformation and during the middle ages. These people were considered heretics and hunted down. They were destroyed by Rome. I don't think those people would have practiced wife beating. But it could have been a frequent practice in the Holy Roman Empire which covered all of Europe but I am not sure. I will see what I can find out about it.

I don't think women have been stoned in christian society or western society in the past 2000 years. The Old Testament parts you are thinking of were instruction to the children of Israel at a particular time in ancient history and never were instructions on how a christian is to live. They are there as a historical record of what happened at that time over 2000 years ago. I don't think it is fair to say the practices of ancient Israel evolved over the last 2000 years. When Jesus came and the church was formed, it was not Judaism.. When people believed in Jesus and began meeting in apostolic times, there was no Judaism practice. In fact, the apostle Paul warned against practicing Judaism in the book of Galatians. Also I don't know when the actual stoning of women ended in Israel. That could have been 3000 years ago for all I know. Also, it should be said Israel was taken over by the Roman Empire and they would have probably outlawed capital punishment unless their governors gave approval. That would be more than 2000 years ago.

Wife beating is not legal in Canada today. From what I can find on Google, in Islam wife beating is permitted within the bounds of what the Quran describes.

Words. There is an article. It is a big problem in the U.S., probably in Canada too. Odd, we don't hear it mentioned much on the news or from politicians.

OftenWrong, I just found a website that does point out domestic abuse/wife beating is a serious problem in the U.S. I would assume it is also in Canada. It is more common that I had thought.

Yes, I have read history books. There are cases of spousal abuse or domestic abuse scattered in society at large in western countries.. It is not something that is promoted as part of the judeo-christian religious systems in western society.

Do you have any evidence of that claim or are you just assuming that?

Altai, I am not cherry-picking anything. What is truth? You believe the Quran came from God. I asked you to explain why you believe that. Is that a good question? The Holy Bible was written over a period of 1500 years and completed about 2000 years ago by about 40 different men, long before Muhammad lived. Muhammad lived about 500 years after the Bible was completed. The Bible has recorded many miracles that took place and many of the men who wrote the bible were eyewitnesses to many miracles. This is one reason you should consider believing the bible came from God. The bible is divided up into 66 books. The second book of the Bible is called Exodus and it tells of many miracles that Moses performed by the power of God. When Moses was in Eygpt with the children of Israel, he performed many miracles to make the Eygptians let the children of Israel go. Then when the children of Israel were leaving Egypt, God divided the Red Sea so that they could cross to the promised land. see Exodus ch14 vs 21 Jesus performed many miracles. They are recorded in the first four book (gospels) of the New Testament. The bible is divided into the Old Testament and the New Testament. The life of Jesus is recorded in the four gospels of the New Testament. Many of the prophets who wrote the Bible were martyred for their faith. This is further proof that what they wrote in the Bible was true. There are prophecies in the Bible that predicted things that had not yet happened and the prophecies came true. This is further proof that the bible came from God. Do you have anything to show that the Quran came from God? The fact that Jesus was seen after he was resurrected from the dead by many eyewitnesses proves a number of things. It proves that Jesus is who he said he is. That is, Jesus is the Son of God and also God. He is not an ordinary man or ordinary prophet as Muslims claim. He performed many miracles and rose from the dead. A central message in the Bible is that God wants men and women to have a personal relationship with him. That is why he sent his son, Jesus, to die on the cross and shed his blood for ours sins. Read the gospels and the book of Hebrews about the necessity of having a sacrifice to pay the price for our sins. Jesus paid that price. The Quran has no similar saviour who paid for our sins. If you look at the Old Testament you will see in Old Testament times the Jews offered sacrifices for sins on an alter. That was only a picture of Christ, the one and only sacrifice for sin. He could do that because he was God's son. God sent his Son to be a sacrifice for our sins. God wants you to believe in Jesus and it is through Jesus that we can know God. "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." John ch14 vs6

I think there is a little misunderstanding as to what I said. I was referring to the word "tolerance". Jesus did not teach to agree with or go along with those who opposed him or his teachings. When you say moneychangers and sinners were very much accepted by him, that is not correct. Jesus overthrew the tables of the money changers at the temple and condemned making his place of worship a place of money dealing. Jesus accepted sinners who wanted to repent and follow him as disciples. He never approved of sins of people.

God is not an it. In the Bible he is referred to in the masculine gender. see King James Bible (1611) "Why can't God save us from Sharia?" "who's side is it on anyway?" God is not on a side in that way. He is calling people in any group and everywhere to be born again. God uses his word to save people from all sorts of things which are in opposition to him and give them eternal life. But the gospel of Christ is spread through the preaching of God's Word. That is the method God chose to spread his Word. "For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God." 1 Corinthians Ch1 vs 18 "For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe." 1 Corinthians Ch1 vs 21. KJV 1611 Must go out for a few hours.

Altai, you are in a state of denial. Sharia denies freedom of religion and speech in countries where it is imposed. That's why I asked you if you can give any evidence that the Quran and Sharia is from God. If it does not come from God, then it must be invented by man. The Holy Bible as I explained earlier to other people comes from God and the evidence it comes from God is overwhelming. Many prophets and apostles wrote the bible under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit and some of them were martyred for their faith. People don't die for something that is false. If you read the first two books of the Bible you will see some big miracles recorded. The children of Israel were held in slavery by the Eygptians for hundreds of years until God set them free. There were many miracles that God performed to convince the Eygptian pharoah to let the children of Israel go. Then God parted the Red Sea and Moses led them through to the promised land. These were big miracles. Have you read the Quran?

Altai, There is a world of difference between between some Islamic countries which practice Sharia and western democracies. You have missed a major difference. It is freedom of religion and freedom of speech. These are considered as fundamental human rights in democratic countries. In Islamic countries this is not so. There is a woman for example in Pakistan who has been sentenced to death for blasphemy. She was a Muslim who converted to christianity. How many Islamic republics have a death sentence for Muslims who convert to christianity? There is no freedom of religion in such countries or freedom of speech.

This is where you seriously err. Many of the prophets and apostles who wrote the Bible were martyred for their beliefs. They obviously were not lying. If they were eyewitnesses to the miracles and power of God, we better believe them. When you have a number of witnesses saying the same thing, you don't dismiss them as liars do you, especially when some of them gave their lives for what they believe.