"coexist"

[jwoodie]

Does it ever occur to those who display this bumper sticker that there is only ONE religion today which refuses to coexist with all the others?

 

[Mr. Sauerkraut]

"accept"

 

[Chuckt]

We already co exist. I won't endorse.

 

[TwistedSuze13]

Coexistance of all religions is possible except with islam.
Islam is the ONLY religion that teaches total intolerance of ALL other belief systems.
Teaches death to all non-beilevers.

Condones beating your wife/daughter or killing her if she embarrassed you.
There's pedophilia......

 

[Pennywise]

The coexist and "tolerance" bumper stickers are only out there because people who are sick to death of multiculturalism have started to be less shy about their feelings.

Coexist only works when there is a large majority and a mute minority. All the champions of multiculturalism are hypocrites, they give lip service to tolerance, but choose to live among people just like themselves. Multicultural for thee, but not for me. Ask any progressive douchebag.

As an aside, coexist does not extend to Israel, just western cultures.

 

[nitroz]

 

[BreezeWood]

Does it ever occur to those who display this bumper sticker that there is only ONE religion today which refuses to coexist with all the others?

that could be their point ... and not just one.

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[Intense]

For what it's worth, no pun intended, to me, true religion is learning to put God first, in all things, through Conscience and Heart. We each are accountable in the same way. In that lies our Equality. Choice, Life Experience, take each of us to different places. It is Not for us to Judge, but Witness. That effects what it does to whatever degree. There are things we can remind each other of, but we can't force the message or the lesson to be received. In matters of Conscience, we each have our own choices to make, we each face the consequences of those thoughts, words, actions, and inactions. It's God that Judges us through circumstance, through cause and effect, and what he chooses to forgive, to pardon, to condemn, is His alone to decide. We ask and pray for forgiveness, for pardon, and in doing that, can we forgive those that have wronged us? Can we learn to?

Who can't God reach that he needs us to fill the gaps? I mean really.... We each get a glimpse of what God is, package it, put it in a box, and try to sell it. How exactly does all powerful and all knowing translate to our corrupted versions of what is real and what is true? Who are we, any of us, to direct Another's path with Authority. How about we focus more on where we ourselves are placing our next step, and stop messing with the forces of creation, arguing and bickering over who is more Holy, and, who's brand of the same God is more powerful. Who here would stand in the way of or obstruct Another's Salvation? Why? How would you reconcile that with God?

 

[Rambunctious]

We already co exist. I won't endorse.

Critics of jihad violence and Islamic supremacism are routinely charged with "bigotry," as if it were "racist" and "hateful" to oppose terror attacks, the institutionalized oppression of women and non-Muslims, the death penalty for apostates, gays, and "blasphemers," etc. It is drearily routine for mainstream analysts to accuse those who dare oppose Islamic violence against women and homicidal oppression of homosexuals of "Islamophobia."

In reality, the true bigotry is that which exists at the heart of Islamic orthodoxy. In Saudi Arabia, the very existence of Christian churches and Jewish synagogues is prohibited, along with the Bible itself; no Christian or Jew can enter Mecca or Medina lest their mere footsteps desecrate Islam's holiest sites. In Pakistan and Afghanistan and elsewhere in the Muslim world, conversion from Islam to Christianity is punishable by death. In Iraq, Syria, Nigeria and even the President's beloved Indonesia, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists and other "infidels" often face acts of religious genocide by fundamentalists who invoke core Islamic texts and teachings to justify their actions. Islamic violence against women and homicidal oppression of homosexuals of "Islamophobia."

 

[The Irish Ram]

Co-existing on this planet is not the same thing as religions co-existing. Christians are to love another, not one another's religion.

Christianity is about as exclusive and intolerant as it gets. One Way.
Nowhere in the Bible are we told to meld into the political correctness of the day, and accept or even tolerate another religions as being just as viable, just because it exists.

The opposite is true for Christians. "Live and let live" to a Christian means, "let the world live and die and do nothing to prevent the eternal death of your brother." We can't do that. We pray for others and try to lead them to Salvation. To do less for Hindu or Muslim believers, or an atheist means we are remiss in our religion.

If you want to know how the God of Abraham feels about co-existing, ask Solomon. He tried it.

1 Kings 3:3 And Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the statutes of his father David, except that he sacrificed and burned incense at the high places.

Here he is told how to avoid the consequences of co-existing, and why:
Deuteronomy 17 also commanded the king not to:

"multiply wives for himself, lest his heart turn away"

Here he is ignoring sound wisdom and multiplying his wives and the consequences:

1 Kings 11:1-2 But King Solomon loved many foreign women, as well as the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites - from the nations of whom the Lord had said to the children of Israel, "You shall not intermarry with them, nor they with you. Surely they will turn away your hearts after their gods."

The result of co-existing:

Nehemiah 13:26 Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations there was no king like him, who was beloved of his God; and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless pagan women caused even him to sin.

And lastly, a good reason not to coexist if you belong to the God of Abraham:

Heb. 4:12-13 Since Solomon turned wicked (became an idolater), the Proverbs he wrote regarding the wicked apply to him. Therefore, his name will rot, as he said it would (Proverbs 10:7). He will be filled with his own ways (Proverbs 14:14). Fear and destruction will come upon him (Proverbs 10:24, 29). He will not go unpunished (Proverbs 11:21). His stomach will be in want (Proverbs 13:25). He will be destroyed and condemned (Proverbs 11:3; 12:2; 13:13). His lamp will be put out (Proverbs 13:9; 24:20).