Does Islam Inspire Terrorism?

[shazeep]

i would say that where the story seems to lose validity is that you have a minister friend there who is a Christian, and is obviously not dead or overly oppressed. It is much more likely that the guy is seeing ghosts, and imagining the backlash he will suffer for coming out as a Christian, because surely you know that all of the minister's neighbors are aware that he is a Christian.

Another angle to view this from is that the Qur'an already teaches the guy that he must follow Christ; so what he seeks is to be identified with Christians--he can already follow Christ from where he is at. He is running from hypocrisy, to hypocrisy, if he thinks that the affiliation will save him; which is obviously what he believes. He seeks to be one of the many who cry "Lord, Lord."

Changing religions will not save you, if you are a hypocrite; and if you are not a hypocrite, you will see that religion does not save you, but rather faith in God, which religion merely attempts to define in human terms. If this person is genuine, he will do what he feels is right, and trust that God holds his life in His hands, and he need not fear anyone coming to kill him, even if they do. Does he wish to save his life? Then he will lose it, anyway.