A chicken in every pot, a Bible for every Iraqi!!!

http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11955&s2=23

May 23 , 2005

Enough is enough for the Christian community in Iraq. The head of Iraq’s largest Christian community, Patriarch Emmanuel Delly, recently scathingly attacked the evangelical Christians who have taken their crusade to Iraq since the illegal U.S. invasion of March 2003.

Delly told Al-Jazeera News on May 19 that Iraq did not need Christian missionaries because its churches dated back long before Protestantism. He objected to the aspect of trying to convert Muslims and said, "You can’t even talk about that here."

According to Delly, the evangelicals attract poor youths with displays of money and then "take them out in cars to have fun. Then, they take photos and send them here, to Germany, to the United States and say ‘look how many Muslims have become Christian.’"

Delly was a strong opponent of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. When he was asked if he had contacts with U.S. authorities, he said: Frankly, I try to avoid meeting them as much as possible. They are the occupiers. The occupied don’t want to be occupied. That’s human nature....

are generally about 2 things:

1) Outreach and charity in non-Christian areas

2) The persecution of Christians around the world

3) The high number of conversions being made.

*annoyed with 2 and 3*

You shouldn't have to expect someone to convert to your religious beliefs by doing good charity works. I think it's disgusting. You should do good works because you like helping people and don't expect anything in return.

That's why I am so opposed to "faith-based" initiatives.

They only help those who convert.

...sweating through his toupee and hollerin' under a revival tent about our new Lord and Saviour Gee Dubya, y'all ain't practicing true Christianity!"

It's kind of embarrassing how these ugly American "evangelicals" presume to try and "lord" it over Christians of much longer standing and more substantive theology, learning, and faith, like the Roman Catholics and the Eastern Orthodox (only my opinion, anyway).

This is exactly what I was afraid of when this occupation started. Having gotten their land and their resources, those filthy Bushbot pigshits now want Iraqi souls as well.

FTR, Iraq's indigenous Christians have been around since the days after Christ.

You've got Assyrian Orthodox, Nestorian, Chaldean Catholic, Armenian Apostolic, etc.

http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11955&s2=23

(snip)
Iraq’s Christians have been in existence for almost 10-times longer than the United States. The country is well aware of Christianity.

Until March 2003, Iraqi Christians and Muslims lived in peace. Neither side tried to convert the other. Even Jews lived in Iraq in harmony. But, the new Iraq is on the verge of sectarian violence that could become ugly. All because of the intervention of the U.S.

Christian evangelists who travel to Iraq to save the savages are merely taking a cue from their masters in Washington. They are so ignorant that they think Iraqis have never heard of Christ and must be taught to see the light. In reality, most Iraqi Christians and Muslims are probably more knowledgeable about Christianity’s history than the light-skinned invaders from the Florida group.
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:argh::argh::argh:

Pretty sure he wasn't the only one.

Wasn't there an article a few days ago that discussed how many of these children were dying of preventable diseases caused by contaminated drinking water?

Fuckin' hypocrites.

...or wipe their butts when the inevitable diarrhea rears its inevitable head.

The look on those childrens' faces in the photo above tells it all, I think. They look like they have something smelly on their upper lip. You have to love the hand, off camera, shoving the book into the unwilling child's hands...