tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775762753988840190.post8349545126564623587..comments2023-10-26T05:27:31.440-07:00Comments on St Francis Magazine: Millions of Iraqi's watch Christian TV programsJohn Stringerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16330961435344117811noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775762753988840190.post-59268675898326320222009-03-22T17:22:00.000-07:002009-03-22T17:22:00.000-07:00On the one hand, this news is likely to make some ...On the one hand, this news is likely to make some Christians optimistic to an unwarranted degree. I am a very secular person and I sometimes watch Christian programming (mainstream type shows to see how an important segment of society sees things and to see what type of development and charitable work they are doing and other types so I can see the cool drawings of beasts and signs and computer chip marks and such). Most of the Muslims who watch Christian TV will not become Christians any time soon, I suspect. The smaller fraction who are eventually converted could jump start local missionary movements but there is a lot that is unknown about what effect access to Christian programming will have on the Christian population in Iraq.<BR/><BR/>On the other hand, there is some significant false information about the Christian and Jewish scriptures and what these people believe, say and do in both Islamic scriptures and clerical teachings across the Muslim world.<BR/><BR/>It is not uncommon for the Koran or Hadith to say something like "go look in the Bible where it will confirm what this Holy Koran says" When a skeptic actually goes and looks and finds that it does not say that the response is that Jews and Christians corrupted it. If the skeptic then asks why the Koran would tell him to look up something that was corrupted to the point of nonexistence they are reminded that it is not good to question their religion. This might work when the only person to ask questions to is a cleric and Bible references are difficult to find but when information and argumentation are available in the privacy of one's home there is a new vulnerability for Islam.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com