Christianity in Africa stats: <10 MN in 1900, 700 MN today.

[awty]

[Nishant Xavier]

Nope, Christianity promotes both the Temporal and Eternal Happiness of Humanity, as Pope Leo XIII says in my signature. That's why the Catholic Church is the Largest Private Health Care Organization in the world, something very well known and highly appreciated in the developing world especially.

Souls accepting Christ is their Personal Freedom to do so, just as it is their Personal Freedom to accept Atheism if they want to. What are Atheists doing to help solve world problems? Attacking Christianity like Dawkins and Hitchens did? That hardly counts, and in fact worsens the world's state.

I support initiatives aimed at ending or severely reducing world hunger and world poverty by 2030 and I think Christian and Secular Organizations could work toward that goal. I also mentioned another thing even before I read the above, NATO and other international organizations should be equally concerned about the security and welfare of African countries as it is about European countries, only that is a real rejection of Racism.

Many African Missionaries played a large part in ending Slavery. David Livingstone was an Anti-Slavery Crusader. Missionaries were Champions of the People. Missionary Motivation comes from Christ's Love, nothing else. When you love someone, you want them to be happy. Christians love their neighbor as Christ commanded, all their neighbors, hence we want everyone to be happy, first temporally in this life, then eternally in the next.

[awty]

You are the one who brought up 'claiming souls'. Don't say there isn't an ulterior motive in what you dress up as true concern.

[Angrboda]

Souls accepting Christ is their Personal Freedom to do so, just as it is their Personal Freedom to accept Atheism if they want to. What are Atheists doing to help solve world problems? Attacking Christianity like Dawkins and Hitchens did? That hardly counts, and in fact worsens the world's state.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

@Nishant Xavier

Many African Missionaries played a large part in ending Slavery. David Livingstone was an Anti-Slavery Crusader.

No one’s denying that individual Christians can and do perform good - even heroic - acts.

If Livingstone had been a non-Christian (or even an atheist), would his contributions to Abolition have been diminished?

Boru

[Nishant Xavier]

well, not sure how being concerned about Souls, as well as Bodies, and the needs of both, is not true concern; If morality were to be subjectively determined, then Christians are subjectively convinced Christiaity is true, hence their actions are conscientiously consistent with those beliefs, much more than those who might say they believe in Christ, but neither care about Souls, and even profess an "I-dont-care-ism" when it comes to the affairs of this world. When Tucker Carlson says no one should care about Ukraine because many can't even name it on a map, that's I-dont-careism in action. Christ's command is not that. Christ's command is to love one's neighbor sincerely from one's heart and to help them when one can do it. Love includes care for both bodily and spiritual needs. I mentioned how Christianity came to England, in another thread, the Royal Family was impressed by how Archbishop St. Augustine of Canterbury, with 40 monks, sent by Pope St. Gregory the Great, devoted themselves without ceasing to prayer, fasting, charity (Christians used to give the food they did not eat to the Poor in those days; unlike lax modern days, when ancient disciplines on both have reduced), every good work and to teaching the Truth, and in time, the King of England himself entered the Baptismal Fount.

It's basically the same story everywhere, whether in Africa or England. When Christianity is deeply lived, as opposed to superficially practiced, it changes lives, hearts and souls. The Early Christians used to do this well, and slowly that Holy Spirit Fire is reviving now in this 21st Century.

Angrboda, ok, what is freedom then and how do you define it? Do Atheists and Christians have not equal rights? Don't both have Freedom of Speech?

[Nishant Xavier]

[Nishant Xavier]

[Angrboda]

Angrboda, ok, what is freedom then and how do you define it? Do Atheists and Christians have not equal rights? Don't both have Freedom of Speech?

Choice without externally provided carrots or sticks. No one is free at the point of a gun, nor when bribed with needed things.

[The Architect Of Fate]

If people require rewards or punishments to make a choice they are not free