You totally misunderstood: only one gnostic group.
But your arrogance is appreciated.
Maybe you didn't express yourself so well.
Your impertinence duly noted.
And has the OP ever heard of the crusades?
Post #s 276 and 278.
I feel like we are teetering on the edge of another semantics debate, this time on what is generally meant by "gnostic."
I was referring to the Mandaean sect of Iraq and Iran.
When muhammed's murderous Arab armies of islam swarmed out of the Arabian penensula there was a thriving Christian community in the Tigris/Euphrates valley. Mostly they were either slaughtered or converted by the sword to islam, if not made into slaves. The Assyrian churches in present day Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Iran were mostly destroyed. The Assyrian church was founded by the diciple Thomas who went on into Pakistan/India and founded churches there also.
The Mandaean gnostic texts should make for some interesting reading.
From a cursorary examination I would say they must have been influenced by Zoroastrianism, which btw influenced Judaism during the days of the Hebrew captivity in Babylon.
The Magi who appeared at the birth of Jesus were most likely Zoroastrians.
When Jesus walked and teached in the Holy Land, one day a diciple, (Peter if I recall) asked Jesus about others who were going about and preaching about Jesus and baptising in His name, and Peter said; "I know them not Lord."
And he was told by Jesus to mind his own business, 'if they be for us, they be not against us. Remember also that John the Baptist baptised many into the faith who had never met Jesus, they just believed what John told them, that the Messiah was nigh.
Yeah I tried to bring up the same thing to you and you said the same thing, we just need to omit that from history because it don't count. You actually contradict your self in your post "Mostly all been pacifists" I though you said all of them?
Christian terrorism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I know it's Wikipedia but several of those sites gsvol and others use are even less reliable and obviously skewed.
What site have I used that isn't factual??
Much of what is written on wiccanppud is purposefully deceiptful.
How about current history??
How about 10,000+ violent jihadist attacks just since 9/11??
How about ten+ million Christians slaughtered in the name of islamic jihad in the twentieth century??
Do you even have the faintest idea why the crusades were fought to begin with???? Again, read
post #s 276 and 278.
Do you even have one bare clue as to what life was like for a Christian, provided he even lived, under the rule of islam????
hmmmmmmmmmmm they all are terrorist eh
2008 & 2009 Surveys and Polls
Link??
More polls.
Opinion Polls of British Muslims show that a disturbing minority are Islamists:
Poll, March 2004 -
13 percent support terror attacks on the US.
Poll, July 2005 -
6 percent support terror attacks on Britain.
13 percent have "a lot" of sympathy for the attackers.
Survey, Feb 2006:
16 percent of British Muslims support suicide bombing in Israel.
7 percent of British Muslims support suicide bombing in Britain.
Survey, July 2006:
16 percent of British Muslims support the "cause" of the London bombers. These people should not be living in the West. If they do not believe in freedom, they should not live in the free world. They should leave.
Survey of British Muslims, Channel 4, Aug 2006 (also here)
24 per cent agreed or tended to agree that the 7/7 bombings were justified.
45 per cent think 9/11 was carried out by the US or Israel.
36 percent said they wanted Sharia law in the UK.
Half said British people who insult Islam should be arrested and prosecuted.
Almost 80 per cent said those who published cartoons of the prophet Mohammed should be punished.
Survey of British Muslims, Channel 4, June 2007
24 percent of British Muslims deny that the four British Muslim suicide bombers carried out the 7/7 attacks.
24 percent of British Muslims believe the British government carried out the 7/7 attacks.
40 percent of Muslims want sharia law in UK.
The young are worse than the old:
Poll of British Muslims, Jan 2007 (and here)
37 percent of young British Muslims want Sharia law in Britain.
36 percent of young British Muslims think apostates should be killed.
13 percent of young British Muslims said they "admired" Al Qaeda.
The stats for older British Muslims are much better. Maybe the young will ditch their fascist views as they grow up. Or maybe, disturbingly, the young show what the British Muslims of the future will look like.
oh wait the media is controlled by the terrorist to.......nevermind
