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From: "Vern Humphrey" 
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To: seanmbrook{at}aol.com [mailto:seanmbrook{at}aol.com]
> >
> > VH> Okay -- although I wouldn't want to accuse anyone of error.
>  I'd rather
> > say,
> > "We Catholics believe in the Divnity of Christ because . . ."
> > >
>  A good idea.  I've already begun trying something like
>  that.  E.g., I've recently that we believe Christ is divine
>  because the words and signs He was reported to have
>  done makes sense only if He was either God Incarnate
>  or a madman.

More important, there is no other explanation that makes sense.  People who
KNEW him called him the Son of God and preached His resurrection.
> >
> > VH> Would the Church had followed through.
> > >
>  The Church HAS tried many times to bring the Gospel
>  to Muslims.  You might recall how Islamic sharia law
>  forbids non Muslims to proselytize in Muslim con-
>  trolled lands.  And in many cases ex Muslims face
>  death by martyrdom if they become Christians in
>  Muslim nations.  A combination of these and other
>  factors has made it difficult to spread the Gospel in
>  Islamic countries.

The Church has tried to bring the Gospel to Jews, Hindus, Protestants, and
many others.
> >
> > VH> You can find people in any group like that -- political as well as
> > religious.  The best strategy is to ignore such people and not
> debate with
> > them.
> > >
>  I think you are right.  I'll try to do that.  Despite being
>  tempted to argue back when a Muslim says silly
>  things like "Catholics worship statues," or "Adam, Moses,
>  or King Solomon, etc." were Muslims.

It's not silly -- it's what they've been taught.  The response is to offer
reasoned, rational arguments.  And meet them halfway.  Clearly, Adam, the
father of us all was ancestor to every religion.  Moses' laws are echoed in
Muslim customs and practices.
> >
> > VH> Very few people of ANY stripe know how to debate.
> >
>  Too true.  But I was particularly UNIMPRESSED by
>  many Muslim debaters.

How are they different from any true believer?  Try to explain to a
committed Clintonophile that it wasn't sex, it was perjury -- and a
particularly sleezy form, since he was lying in a case where he had a
financial interest.
> >
> > He didn't even see the irony. :-)
> >
>  Ha!  Amusing!  And he was wrong, of course.  But,
>  I don't COPTIC Christians care to be called "Arabs." 

No more do Berbers.  Copts are not Arabs, they are true Egyptians.
>


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