Why so many Christianity threads?

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Supreme said:
I found that curious. Apparantly, Muslim sermons mention Christianity a lot- even if the audience is exclusively Muslim. I've never been to a church that has once acknowledged the existence of Islam, let alone mention or discuss it.
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You haven't been to my church. I have. I've also at one time or another referenced most of the other faiths you mention above.
 
Woodrow said:
True.

For me I am not very effective when it comes to refutations. It is not my better area of debate, I do a much better presentation as the an advocate for what I believe to be true.
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Which I think is a wiser and better way to approach anyone about anything. However, Woodrow, though you are not alone, I think that there are those who do take a different tack on this than you do -- both Christians trying to proselytize Muslims and Muslims trying to refute Christianity. That never ending back and forth contributes to the overall tenor of discussions in this section of the board. And I think this, combined with those already expressed, is the biggest reason for the number of threads dealing Christianity in this comparative section of the forum is greater than all the other comparisons combined. Christianity and Islam are the two religions which dominate the interest both past and present of those who frequent it, and so the discussion continues.
 
Mohamed_Sadiq said:
Everybody knows that Islam is the fastest growing religion even a ignorant athiest and delusional budhist knows that.
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Sorry to pursue this rabbit trail, but I hear this said a lot on these forums, but I've never actually run into the figures any place outside of here. I have no doubt this is probably true in certain locations and no doubt that it is untrue in others. But where can I find global stats that would say what is and isn't happening? Everyone may "know" this, but I haven't seen anything actually published.
 
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Grace Seeker said:
You haven't been to my church. I have. I've also at one time or another referenced most of the other faiths you mention above.
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I was just thinking back to the days I explored several Christian denominations. A few of the mainstream denominations seemed to speak well of other religions and seemed to have an attitude that people who believed different from them still worshiped the same God(swt) I remember a few that usually had a message in the sermons that the members need to be tolerant towards other faiths, most often mentioned in those sermons were Islam and Judaism.
 
Supreme said:
Really? It'd be interesting to know what context you mentioned it in.
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Well, depending on the occassion and one's own personal persepctive, one might have heard different things. Many of the "refutations" of Christian doctrines that have been presented on these threads are mere rehashing of arguments that have been put forth by Arians, Sabellism, and others throughout Christian history. And they are still repeated by both Muslims and other non-Christians. So, in articulating the various elements of the faith, I have identified some of the places that one might here other points of view and provided my own (i.e. Christian-biased) view of them.

I've also corrected things that I find my own church members mis-construeing with regard to Islam, and identified some of the things which I feel that we Christians could learn from our Abrahamic-faith cousins like the seriousness with which a faithful Muslim practices a life of submission to God's will, or some of the commonalities our two faiths actually share.
 

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