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  1. Matthias

    Crusades Began with Reconquista

    @Armour of God are you familiar with Desmond Doss? If not, you should Google him. @Wrangler wasn’t. He is now. Doss, a pacifist, the subject of the movie Hacksaw Ridge, was one of the bravest men who ever walked the face of God’s good earth. Wrangler, even after learning about him says Doss (by...
  2. Matthias

    Crusades Began with Reconquista

    You are my enemy, @Armour of God. And you are infinitely worth having a conversation with. Like the Catholic warriors whom you celebrate, you would kill your enemy -> be your enemy Muslim, Jew or Christian. You would kill @Wrangler in the scenario of his nation warring against yours. Would you...
  3. Matthias

    Crusades Began with Reconquista

    We are not alike. Do not kill your enemy. Evangelize him. AI Overview had this to say about my attitude toward my enemy - “Choosing to evangelize an enemy instead of destroying them shifts the focus from hostility to transformation, echoing Matthew 5:44 to love and pray for those who oppose...
  4. Matthias

    Crusades Began with Reconquista

    You haven’t put me on ignore @Wrangler. You‘ve put the question on ignore. Counterfeit Christianity No genuine Christian will be killed by Jesus. No genuine Christian will be thrown into the lake of fire. Counterfeit Christians - people who say they are Christian but are not - are on the path...
  5. Matthias

    Crusades Began with Reconquista

    The USA could turn your country, any country, into a thermonuclear wasteland. *** You and @Wrangler could meet on opposite sides of a battlefield one day. You’re both willing to kill one another in that scenario. You’re both willing to kill Christians. The devil wants you to get on with it.
  6. Matthias

    Crusades Began with Reconquista

    Have you prayed for the Islamic oppressors?
  7. Matthias

    God Commands Righteous Violence

    “I often asked the torturers, ‘Don’t you have pity in your hearts?’ They usually answered with quotations from Lenin: ‘You cannot make omelets without breaking the shells of eggs,’ and ‘You cannot cut wood without making chips fly.’ I said again, ‘I know these quotations from Lenin. But there is...
  8. Matthias

    QUOTE for the day

    “There was a price [for evangelizing Communists], but we were prepared to pay it.” - Richard Wurmbrand
  9. Matthias

    God Commands Righteous Violence

    @Wrangler told me yesterday in another thread, ”Jesus will kill Christians when he returns” and “we should model that demonstration.” He’s convinced me that he wants to go Medieval on his enemies (including, but of course not limited to, Christians) but something - he hasn’t told me what (or...
  10. Matthias

    The happy thread was dead. Long live the happy thread!

    I was from time to time required at work to wade in swamps in south Georgia (and in ponds in central and north Georgia). I remember being thigh deep in swamp water one time and thinking to myself, “God created alligators and he provides them with food to eat. I‘m not alligator food today.” (Not...
  11. Matthias

    Crusades Began with Reconquista

    A ship manned by and transporting Catholics; on their way to kill Muslims. And Jews. And Christians. You‘ve made it perfectly clear that you don’t have an issue with that -> “Jesus will kill Christians. … we should model that demonstration.” What’s stopping you from doing it?
  12. Matthias

    The happy thread was dead. Long live the happy thread!

    They’re fast over a short distance. How much of a head start do you require?
  13. Matthias

    God Commands Righteous Violence

    @Wrangler IF the connotation of the title “the Impaler” is good, IF it is desirable, IF it expresses the way that a Christian should think, teach, and act, IF it is beautiful and commendable in the eyes of God - would you object to being thought of as “Wrangler the Impaler”? Is that the way that...
  14. Matthias

    Crusades Began with Reconquista

    Then your account has been hacked. Someone has been conversing with me in your name. Someone should tell him.
  15. Matthias

    God Commands Righteous Violence

    Boys and girls might be persuaded by your story but your audience here is mature men and women. https://www.15minutehistorypodcast.org/episodes/vlad-the-impaler-evil-manifested ”Evil manifested” is an appropriate description of Vlad. ”Evil manifested” is not an appropriate description of a...
  16. Matthias

    Crusades Began with Reconquista

    Here’s the correct answer. “Your enemy is your mission field.” -John MacArthur Will the enemy change their mind? Some will. Some won’t. Either way, the follower of Jesus has done what he or she was commissioned by him to do. Don’t destroy your mission field.
  17. Matthias

    God Commands Righteous Violence

    The vid has nothing to do with Vlad. Vlad is being exalted by a fan, @Wrangler. Be Vlad. Wind up like Vlad. “… in 1477 he met his death by the Danube at the hands of an assassin, who sent his head to Mehmet in Constantinople, where it was displayed in the city on a tall stake.”...