Should we still be quite or its time to retaliate?????

Surely by retaliating we are playing their game. We are better than them because Jesus taught us to love not just ourselves and our friends but also our enemies. Towards the end of the worlds we will once again be persecuted, but we musn't lose faith. Stand strong and believe in God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit and you will provail.

Dear John, I've sent up a prayer asking God to help you with your righteous anger. First,a little background from my perspective: As I understand Christianity, Jesus's movement of Peace, Love, forgiveness,and turn the other cheek was taken over by the Romans. History speaks of the Roman Catholic Empire. It coincides with over a 1000 years called the Dark Ages where people were routinely burned at the stake for heresy. Yet, I know of pacifist Catholics. Also, your church has many martyred Saints who refused to use violence... We Protestants, also called Christians, have played our part in history of making religious war in the name of Jesus... Now to propose an answer: With biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons the Armagedden as described in Revelations is finally, and tragically possible. If fact, there are people who call themselves Christian who are doing everything they can in a twisted logic, to bring on the Second Coming. To these people, and any who consider violence when they feel anger, ask yourself: What would Jesus do? I think Jesus would turn the other cheek at the very least. While Jesus was first in non-violent civil disobedience, India's Gandhi lead India to Independence using non-violent civil disobedience. It would be poetic if you could organize non-violent civil disobedience demonstrations to stop the violence in India right starting right in your own community. What do you Think? be Blessed, Steve Slaton

We can't ask the govenment to take up arms for us because legally there's SUPPOSED to be a seperation of Church and State - though we should have -some- legal rights due to free speech and the like but sadly so do they. We as Christians need to be there for our holy men and woman, sacrifice our time and efforts to help those in need and realize that they can't do it alone. We don't need to fight against the people harming us, just defend our stance. Vandalization of relics -really- isn't all that bad, you don't need a relic or a church to pray in or two but as for the personal attacks on the people, get the nuns chastity belts and assign a "protector" over them ( the nuns and the priests ) and we should help them in any way that we can.