We have joined our Muslim brothers and sisters in keeping the fast of Ramadan this year, as a freewill offering to God. [FONT=verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]To our Muslim brothers and sisters everywhere:[/FONT] [FONT=verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]All praise and thanks be to the one God whom we all worship, who has called you to worship Him after the manner of al-Islam, and us to worship Him according to the gospel of Jesus, whom both faith traditions hail as the Messiah: it is our deep wish that God strengthen you in your devotion to God, your love of God, and your trust in God during this month of Ramadan, and that everything that you do for His sake may be pleasing to Him.[/FONT] [FONT=verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]We have joined you in keeping the fast of Ramadan this year, as a freewill offering to God accompanying our prayer for peace, justice, and a spirit of love to grow among the peoples of the Abrahamic religions. [/FONT] [FONT=verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]It is our desire that all over the world, if God so wills, Muslim, Jew and Christian can learn to stand together in brotherhood in the sight of their Creator, and encourage one another in faithfulness and good deeds. But we are mourning many of the deeds of our government and our people, as they continue to involve themselves in the affairs of Islamic peoples, and the lives of Muslim detainees held at United States facilities, without sufficiently caring or understanding what they are doing to the people whose lives they affect. [/FONT] [FONT=verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]To our sorrow, we see many American Christians trusting, supporting, and following policy-makers whose guiding principle seems to be “let us do evil, that good may come of it,†as if they did not know that our own scripture explicitly condemns it (Romans 3:8). In repenting our own complicity in this, we hope to lead our brother and sister Christians into repentance.[/FONT] [FONT=verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Our power to make the world’s leaders humble themselves, question their own behavior, and let their hearts be turned, seems very small. And yet we draw hope from our certainty that we are listened to by the true Ruler of this world, the Turner of Hearts, who sees everything and holds all power. [/FONT] [FONT=verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]This month we curb our natural appetites during daylight hours to be more mindful of the One to whom we must return, the Highest, our Helper. [/FONT] [FONT=verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]We perceive, sadly, that many American Christians lack understanding of what it means to be a Muslim. How better to change that than for some of us to join the Muslim world in its Ramadan fast? [/FONT] [FONT=verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]We also hope that such self-restraint as we gain from the fast might help restore a spirit of self-restraint to the worldly culture of the industrialized nations, in however small a way, for on our learning self-restraint now seems to depend the saving of the world from ruin.[/FONT] [FONT=verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Advised by Jesus himself to fast privately and without open display (Matthew 6:16-18), we make ourselves available for responses to this communication but without identifying ourselves individually by name. May God comfort you, sustain you in hope, and bestow on you every blessing.[/FONT] [FONT=verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Ramadan Fasters of Christ[/FONT]
It makes no sense. Why would one who believes in the one and only God want to mix beliefs of one of the many gods of the world? The moon god has no place in my life since he doesn't exist. This sounds a lot like one of those Nigeria 419 letters.
It reads like a bit of poor Muslim propaganda. The choice of words seems clearly Muslim in origin. Nothing against Islam or the OP but that is my impression.
Freehold, Iowa - Landover Baptist received word recently that Satan is prancing around the Middle East like that preoperative transsexual Richard Simmons after a fistful of diet pills, hell-bent on turning Muslamic adults, known for their quaint propensity to believe any stupid thing they are told, against eating food by getting them hooked on a dangerous new weight reduction plan called, The Ramadan Diet. But Lucifer's crafty goal extends well beyond simply having folks shed that almost impossible-to-lose jiggly thigh fat. His Ramadan Diet is not really a plan to lose weight at all, but a promise to lose salvation. You see, Satan has figured out that if people refuse to eat anything, there is no way a Christian pastor can save their soul by getting them to nibble on a consecrated piece of the body of Christ. As such, it is your Christian duty to call naïve Muslamics out of the Ramadan Diet, using either the spiritual food of Christ's Good News or a rubber feeding tube. You shouldn’t feel any sense of guilt or remorse for breaking some poor Muslamic's Ramadan Diet. You should feel empowered by the Holy Ghost to carry out the will of the Living God! You are taking back something the Devil stole from Jesus, and distorted into a mockery and dangerous fad! And don’t you think for a minute it isn’t true! Islam is a religion built on sand – literally. From the day Ishmael was born from the loins of Hagar (the Paris Hilton of her day who was almost certainly addicted to body piercings and the taste of African semen), his hellbound descendents have been stealing weapons, technology, food, jewelry, clothing, whole countries, and yes, even ideas (like fasting) out of the Holy Bible! Throughout human history, Islamaloids have not made a single legitimate contribution to society outside of distracting Americans from President Bush's domestic policies for their own good. If you run across an Islamic caught up in the Ramadan Diet, it is your duty as a True Christian™ to use this one time out of the year to resist your righteous impulse to wring the neck of a possible terrorist and, instead, entice him or her to eat. The only hope these poor, backward, barbarian fools have in this world is the hope that a True Christian™ like you, will take time out of your busy day, to break their godless fast and share the good news of Jesus Christ. source
rebecca, I don't know that you can copy and paste but the source that you give, is being blacklisted by shalla secure service... i wonder why ?
That is not a porn site, it is a satire site. It actually makes fun of extreme fundamental christians in a nice way. The site pretends to be the official site of this baptist church and they have some crazy preaching and sermons. It is really funny.
I have yet to meet one that supports Islam in anyway what so ever. The "Christians" I do know, and I know hundreds, have nothing good to say about Islam. I don't support either religion, but that is my personal observation.
It's a kitman man They may have gotten some letter for telling them to hold intersession prayers at the time of ramadan but not pray with them to serve their satan - and as usual they distort the content as they did with the scriptures.
I don't like religion in most of its forms. I realize there are many Muslim suicide bombers that kill innocents everyday in the name of religion, I do despise them whole heartedly. However, I don't assume every Muslim suscribes to those sort of beliefs.
Certainly they don't. If they did, there would be some SERIOUS chaos around the world. If you had 1+billion people blowing themselves up, it would make some real damage. Even still, many many of them do think like that. Way more than should be tolerated.
Obviously some of them do but what percentage do they represent of the religion? I'm not defending Islam, but lets put it in perspective. The number of suicide bombers compared to the number of Muslims has to be less than .0001% Again, I don't believe in Islam or Christianity but I do believe in an individuals right to believe in a whatever religion they choose.