The article by Rachel Zoll (Associated Press) entitled "Christianity making inroads among Muslims" and published in the Lethbridge Herald on April 26, 2003 was surprising. The thought that proselytizers for an ancient religion would have the gall to foist their superstitions on Muslims is as credible as imagining a group of 6th grade children organizing a truant posse to return high school students to primary school. What would these WASPs think if Hebrews started ringing their door bells preaching of the superiority of Moses?

These fevered Yankees unabashedly circumvent laws prohibiting their missionary activities by beaming proscribed propaganda into Islamic countries by satellite. Such activity brings to mind the definition of the word "criminal". The article notes that the American based Christar mission group trains workers to mingle with Muslims in NY and NJ; this sounds an awful lot like subterfuge and infiltration.

We are informed that there are now hundreds, if not thousands of Muslim converts to Christianity. This is indeed impressive - given that Islam has existed for only 1400 years. Apparently, this advancement is achieved by disguising Christian theology and social practice: missionaries now pass off the three Christian gods as Allah ("the One God") and segregate women in church. Clever! What's next? Printing and binding the Holy Qur'an with black Bible jackets?

God is three, Man is evil, Belief is salvation.

Christian Superstition

Superstition is a belief founded on irrational feelings, especially of fear.

Christians believe in the three gods of the trinity. Further, they believe in a fourth god - an evil one called Satin the Devil. Led by this frightening Prince of darkness, evil supposedly battles against the forces of good led by the God Who "is Light" - as though darkness was something other than the absence of light.

An Islamic tradition holds that "knowledge is a single point, but the ignorant have multiplied it." Augustine wrote the first apology for the trinity - 23 volumes. This work of fifteen years didn't satisfy Hilary, who wrote a further 12 volumes. Though incomprehensible, the trinity is a perennial selling point for Christianity amongst the credulous, as with Tertullian who wrote: "I believe because it is impossible."

Christianity is rife with such superstitions. The reason Christians have an Easter Bunny laying eggs in the Spring, celebrate the birth of "The Prince of Peace" at the Winter solstice, displaced the Sabbath to "Sun Day", and venerate graven images is because unprincipled church fathers sanctioned by Emperor Constantine formalized the Hellenistic acculturation of the faith of Jesus begun by the apostate Paul.

Evangelical Incivility

Ignoring the divine command to "render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's" evangelical Christians shamelessly circumvent legal prohibitions against proselytizing in certain Islamic countries by beaming their propaganda from the safety of outer space.

These troublemakers lack the courage to preach in person and face the consequences (including capital punishment) of their illegal activities. Jesus asks them "why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,' and do not do what I say?"

It is not a difficult matter to obey the laws of the land, and to respect the laws of others. It only requires the self-discipline of doing "unto others as you would have them do unto yourself." If they are not capable of this common civility, how are they equipped to follow divine law?

These evangelists fancy that they have some special dispensation to violate the trust of their Muslim neighbours. The Prophet Jesus asks "And if you have not been faithful in the use of that which is another's, who will give you that which is your own?" Abraham notes: "If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be persuaded if someone raises from the dead."

Bad Blood

Within the body of Christianity flows the blood of the Crusaders, Inquisitors, Conquistadores, Witch hunters, World Warriors, racists and Anti-Semites.

In lands liberated by Islam "the People of the Book" (Jews and Christians) were protected and their religious communities allowed to flourish. In territories conquered by Christians the people were forced to convert and/or were slaughtered, tortured, burnt at the stake, enslaved, and gassed.

And this is to say nothing of the 100 million souls snuffed out by the strife and genocide of two world wars between Christian nations.

Beguiled by Pauline theology premised on the fallacy that man is inherently evil, Christians disguise as the love of God their deep hatred towards mankind. Jesus said "He that is without sin among you, let him" cast the first stone. By subscription to the Pauline redemption fable, Christians imagine that their sins have been justified and throughout their history have cast countless stones, arrows, spears, musket and canon balls, bullets, and bombs.

These, as recorded in history, are some of the evil fruits of the tree of Christianity. "Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember?"

6th Grade Holdbacks

There is only one God, and only one Religion - the eternal Faith of God. Mankind's divine schooling corresponds to our maturing capacity: Abraham declared that God is one, Moses announced that the one God has commandments, and Jesus revealed the one God standing within us with laws.

As in any school, the divine educators propagate two classes of information: disciplinary rules suited to the student's maturity, and advanced knowledge built on the pupil's prior education. Disciplinary rules aren't essential and change from grade to grade; the unchanging pure knowledge is progressively revealed as students advance.

Christian evangelists in grade 6 want to help other students, but they have been held back in school because of failure to learn their lessons. For example, their math is atrocious: 1+1+1=3 (not 1) but they persist with their "Trinity" error.

These children are unfit to tutor 1st graders, much less lecture in the divine university. This is not their fault - they had a substitute teacher (Paul) who mislead them. Had Paul followed the curriculum of the divine educator, Christians might have grasped enough to be promoted to the next grade and learn the lessons of its divine counsellor - Muhammad.

Christianity was founded by Paul

St. Peter's primacy was ordained by Jesus Himself, but Paul's supremacy is obvious; Peter's role in Christianity is as a doorman at the gates of Heaven and the subject of many a popular joke. Nobody jokes about the educated and travelled Paul - a Pharisee intimate with the Gentile's irrational beliefs. Paul's immensely successful syncretisms of pagan superstitions with Christian and Jewish teachings justified his saying "I have become all things to all men."

Wilhelm Nestle concluded that "Christianity is the religion founded by Paul which replaces the Gospel of Jesus by a Gospel about Jesus." True Christianity disappeared in 325AD at the conference of Nicaea when and where emphasis on the teachings of Jesus were replaced with a "pagan-friendly" story about Jesus: He is a mute babe in the manger and the silently suffering Saviour on the cross. Pascal noted that the Christian faith "seeks little more than to establish these two truths: the corruption of nature and its redemption through Jesus Christ."

The lions share of the New Testament are Pauline writings, yet the prolific Paul sees fit to quote the sayings of Jesus only once. And with the stamp of Emperor Constantine, Peter was robbed to pay Paul.

The Apostate Paul

As Christianity was founded by an Aramaic speaking Jew in a Hebrew society, we might ask why it became so divergent from Judaism. In a word, the reason is "Paul".

Paul never met, nor did he study under, the Rabbi Jesus. This vehement opponent of Jesus and His holy teachings travelled far and wide on a personal mission of persecution. According to his telling, Paul, in the desert on the road to Damascus, became a changed man after Jesus appeared to him. Paul henceforth built on this heat-stroke induced hallucination to fashion a false religion featuring Jesus.

Jesus' teachings were irrelevant to Paul who only once quotes His words. Christian belief is supported with "Saul says," rather than "Jesus says."

With his self-anointing as the "Apostle to the Gentiles" Paul gagged Jesus and apposed St. Peter and the Church of James (the brother of Jesus) in Jerusalem. St. Peter's spiritual primacy was ordained by Jesus, but Paul considered himself not the least inferior to the "super Apostles" in Jerusalem, whom he vilified.

Jesus warned of the appearance of wolves in sheep's clothing. Paul wasn't an apostle of Jesus, he was an apostate of Jesus.

See no evil

At racing school they teach that "your vehicle goes where you look, so look where you want to go - not where you are afraid you may go."

The gaze of Christians is fixated on evil. It is no wonder that these same people brought us to the Crusades, Inquisition, Dark Ages, Witch hunts, two world wars, Holocaust, etcetera.

Darkness is simply the absence of light, and vice the shadow of virtue. Created in the image of the Omniscient Lord to know and worship Him - man's light is knowledge. At the dawn of a man's life he is innocent - gradually awakening to the power of consciousness and reason as he matures.

Animals lack self consciousness and are innocent; Though animals kill - they don't murder. For conscious men, want of knowledge is ignorance, and lack of spiritual freedom is sin. As St. Peter said: "For ignorance will be found to be the mother of almost all evils."

When asked why men sin, St. Peter said: "It is because they are ignorant... For this reason they, having lust... for the continuance of life, gratify it in any accidental way... Wherefore God is not evil, Who has rightly placed lust within man, that there may be a continuance of life, but they are most impious who have used the good of lust badly... For we ought to have something more than the animals, as reasonable men, and capable of heavenly senses..."

The poisonous venom of a snake bite isn't evil; it is a means of the snakes protection and survival. Medical science has created useful serums from venom, demonstrating that knowledge is the true "good", and ignorance the only "evil."

The Prince of Apostles said: "Evil, then, does not exist always, yea, it cannot exist at all substantially..."

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