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   From: hayesmstw@hotmail.com   
      
   On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 20:20:32 GMT, "Dan Drake"  wrote:   
      
   >On Fri, 7 Oct 2005 13:55:47 UTC, "AJA"  wrote:   
   >   
   >>   
   >> Insincere seems a too soft word to characterize a terrorist, no? I wouldn't   
   >> presume to guess what they are.   
   >   
   >Shucks, I'm still having trouble with this sincerity business.  Terrorists   
   >seem to me to be sincere as Hell.   
   >   
   >Is Osama bin Laden a sincere Muslim? It just doesn't seem to be the right   
   >question. Or maybe it is. He's sincere, but is he Mere?   
      
   The aim of terrorists is to put the fear of "X" into someone.   
      
   And there undoubtedly have been Christians who have adopted terrorist methods.   
      
   About 10 years ago i met a Russian bishop at a mission conference, and after   
   hearing an american speaker call for an "aggrssive Orthodoxy, an Orthodoxy   
   with teeth" the Russian bishop got up and asked him "How do you know that the   
   peiople you want to bite with those teeth won't themselves grow bigger teeth   
   and turn round and bite you.   
      
   He then said that many people who had belonged to the KGB had become Orthodox   
   when doing so was no longer politically correct, but they tried to spread   
   Christianity using the same methods that they had used in the KGB. "We call   
   them Orthodox Bolsheviks", the bishop said.   
      
   Can a "sincere" Christian use terrorist methods?   
      
   I suppose it depends on what you mean by sincere. Should not sincere   
   Christians sincerely believe that "perfect love casts out fear"?   
      
      
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