Christian Responses to Terrorism PDF Download

Author: Gordon L. Heath
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 149822928X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 227

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How should Christians respond to terrorism and terrorists in their midst? Terrorism is a global problem, and no society on earth faces it alone. The mainly Christian society of Kenya has suffered more than most as it attempts to counter the threat of al-Shabaab. Some pastors have asked for permission to carry guns. Many Christians support government military action, while others recommend pacifist stances, and strive for dialogue and reconciliation with the Muslim community. In this book, ten Kenyan Christian thinkers and practitioners share their experiences and insights. A response section from seven others, including a Kenyan Muslim scholar, enrich the discussion.

Author: Ron Mock
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Despotism
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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How can Christians love their neighbors and their enemies at the same time? What if the enemies are terrorists and tyrants, and the neighbors include the people they terrorize or tyrannize? Can governments be terrorists? Or only individuals? Is there a Golden Rule for nations? These are among the many urgent questions addressed in Loving Without Giving In.

Author: Philip Kapusta
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780983375357
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 558

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The author uses September 11th, 2001, and America's subsequent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, as the backdrop for his personal essays on Christian separatism. It is the author's belief that an unbelieving world will ridicule and reject as false a religion whose adherents claim to follow a Prince of Peace but who refuse to lay down the sword and scepter. The incongruity between the teachings of Jesus and the actions of Christians in these areas discredits the Gospel. Christianity's sanction of war and its affiliation with the military are the most glaring and damaging expressions of Christian inconsistency, destroying the only real and meaningful alternative that can be presented to a war-torn world.

Author: Brian Wicker
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317109864
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Following the 9/11 attacks by Al-Qa'ida, President Bush declared war on terror. In the succeeding years, Western governments have struggled to find the right way to respond to the new and deadly threat posed by terrorism. With the election of President Obama the rhetoric has softened and policies have been adjusted but the underlying problems and challenges remain the same. Meanwhile, the war on terrorism in Afghanistan has been intensified. Drawing on just war teaching as developed within both Christian and Muslim traditions, this book examines whether, and how, liberal democracies can combat the new global terrorism both effectively and justly. The authors, including distinguished academics from both sides of the Atlantic, Christian and Muslim theologians, former senior civil servants and a General, deploy a wide range of experience and expertise to address one of the most difficult and pressing ethical challenges to contemporary society.

Author: Saving Christianity
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781544096490
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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This Conception is Counter Propaganda For the Media, Theologians, and Politicians. For Christians Who Ostracize Themselves From How Modern Christianity Breeds 100 Times More Terrorism than Islam. For All Faiths Against Terrorism Perpetrated by Killers Believing they will Go To Heaven for Murdering Civilians, All Who Believe Love is Stronger Than Hate, All Who Believe in Equality. For Evolving from My God Verses Your God into God is Love. For Christians A Million Miles Away from Jesus, Helping You Come Back Home: -Love your enemies and Pray for those who Persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in Heaven.- (Matthew 5:44-45) Defeating Christian Terrorism With Love! Love Starts With Acceptance. Speeches By Popes, Bible Verses, Christian Terrorist Manuals and Testimonies Are All Included, Documenting The Top 10 Categories of How Christianity Breeds Terrorism. In Addition to Permission and Motivation to Terrorize, Some Christians Interpret the Modern Teachings of Christianity to Believe they Have a Duty to Be Terrorists. Responses to Christian Terrorists' Ideology are Included To Exterminate the Hate and Replace it with Love. The Top 10 Ways Christians Kill For Jesus Include: Deicide, Rapture, 100 Virgins, Manifest Destiny, Satanism, Resemblance, Fetuses, and From Having a Guilt Free Conscience Being Already -Saved-, thus Sins Can Be Unlimited and They Assume They Can Still Be In Heaven. Love, as a Focus to Defeat the Christian Terrorists' Hate includes the Top 10 Ways Muslims Love Jesus More Than Christians. Loving the Original Jesus Verses the Contemporary Jesus More is a Core Way to Cure Christian Terrorism. Teaching to Truly Love Jesus Include: Showing How Jesus was actually Saved from the Cross and Clarifying How It's Much More Loving to Believe in Rescue than Resurrection, Consequently Giving Christian Terrorists Accountability Rather Than Lawlessness. 20 years of Propaganda and Comparative Religion research is what makes this book more authoritative and informative than any of it's kind. Our Goal is three fold: Breaking the Media Ban on Reporting Christian Terrorism, Defeating Christian Terrorism, and Opening Dialog Among World Religions from An Equal Platform to Foster Understanding, Peace, and Love. The Anti-Defamation League reports 2015 to Present as being the -Deadliest Time for Domestic Extremist violence in the past 20 years. Over 63 percent of killings levied on Americans were committed by groups that identify with Strong Christian beliefs-. Christian Terrorism Is On the Rise, Consequently, those Who Deny Christian Terrorism Are Also Increasing. Denying Christian Terrorism is Tantamount to Condoning and Enabling Murderers Killing For Jesus. Churches Don't Condemn or Acknowledge Christian Terrorism because of Shame and Embarrassment, like the Catholic church international terrorism towards children by priests. The Catholic Church Spent Decades and Millions Denying and Covering Up Christian Terrorism Against Children By Priests. Despite Being One of the Richest Institutions in the World, The Catholic Church Spent Decades Trying to Avoid Paying Retribution to the Terrorized Children. Christian Terrorism is Also an Inconvenient Truth For non-Catholic Churches Who Compete with Each other to Lower Requirements For Salvation. Churches Sell A Fast Food Style Quick and Easy Heaven to Naive Flocks to Increase Attendance and Tithing; as a Consequence, Breeding More Christian Terrorists. In Both Catholic and Non-Catholic Christian Churches, it's Financially Beneficial to Deny Christian Terrorism and Distance Themselves from the Guilt and Embarrassment. Silence from Nearly All Christian Leaders Shows Church Officials Would Rather Continue to Collect and Keep Money Rather Than Save Lives by Addressing Modern Interpretations of Christianity that Breed Terrorism.

Author: Lee Griffith
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802828606
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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Uniquely relevant in a world shaken by recent acts of terror, this title calls people of faith to the way of peace, the Christian response to evil and violence.

Author: Richard S. Hess
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
ISBN: 1575068036
Category : Terrorism
Languages : en
Pages : 169

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In February 2004, Denver Seminary's annual Biblical Studies conference addressed the question of modern war and the teachings of biblical ethics regarding it. A year earlier, the invasion of Iraq had taken place. The questions created by the outbreak of war prompted an urgency in the consideration of the topic. Association for Christian Conferences, Teaching, and Service (ACCTS) provided ethicists and practitioners from within the military of both the U.S. and Great Britain. Hess and Martens also solicited papers from leading theologians and advocates representing pacifist and just-war views. They have succeeded in bringing together a group of Christians representing a wide range of perspectives to debate and discuss their heritage and biblical roots with regard to questions of war and its ethical dilemmas. --from publisher description.

Author: Gene Edward Veith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780758602558
Category : September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A Christian response to terrorism from a Lutheran point of view. Discusses religious war and warns against generic religion and secularism.

Author: Bryan Rennie
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000938603
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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September 11 and the subsequent War on Terror continues to cast a long shadow over the world. Religion, Terror and Violence brings together a group of distinguished scholars from a range of backgrounds and disciplines to explore the claim that acts of violence – most spectacularly the attack of September 11, 2001 and the international reaction to it – were intimately linked to cultural and social authorizing processes that could be called 'religious.' This book provides a nuanced but incisive insight into the reaction of the discipline of religious studies to the post 9/11 world.

Author: Mahmoud Masaeli
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443869317
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 425

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Fifteen years after the tragic events of 9/11, bombs are still exploding and innocent people are being killed by terrorist groups in both western and Islamic societies. Most of these sinisterly threatening events are motivated by religious claims, or are taking place in religiously affected places. Is religion the main cause of terrorism, or does terrorism still arise because of leaders who brainwash and coach future terrorists so that they kill under the banner of religion? The religious imagination seems to hold here an influential power in the creation of ‘delusion’ to orient the ‘bigot’ believers toward fulfilling their religious duty against those who are religious in a different way or are not religious at all. Religion, in this sense, is tightly allied with political aspirations. In spite of the religious justification of the act of killing, ‘enlightened’ religious leaders and religious-minded people believe and argue that religion is a source of love and affection. Therefore, the sacred texts of religious tradition must be read from a ‘humanist’ perspective because the ultimate message of religion is about the appreciation of the principle of humanity. This is a growing attitude among many religious people today who believe that God is merciful and compassionate, and never orders resentment, violence, and killing of innocent people. In addition, no true religious tradition appreciates self-serving interpretations promoting violence against others. If religion disregards love, affection, and compassion as its essence, it drops into the dire vortex of ideological dogma, as it is in the case for the Taliban, ISIS, Boko Haram, and Al-Shabab. Therefore, any interpretation that admits violence and killing would be a mere provincial reading of the religious texts agitated by purposeful intentions aimed at political goals. This book investigates and addresses the root causes of terrorism from a religious studies perspective. The themes analysed and discussed here mainly include a range of religious and philosophical issues such as religious violence in scriptural monotheism, radical interpretations of religious texts, militancy and sacrifice, apocalypticism and terrorism, and religious terrorism today. The book brings together new approaches adopted by the authors to not only trace the causes of terrorism in various religious interpretations and realms, but also reach a common definition of the main religious causes beyond diverse perspectives, and advance solutions against religious-inspired terrorism.