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@TedEhioghae Of course, I know. For my whole life I attend Church, and my family also. But no one in my country (where 90% of people are Christians) thinks like this, that such things as makeup or hairstyle or clothes (unless someone would come half naked to a church, which of course would be inappropriate and disrispectful) has anything to do with faith. And what right someone has to judge the others, according to their appearance - it has nothing to do with Christianity. What really matters is what someone has in his heart, not how he looks like. It's not Christianity, to judge the others in such a way. Even Christ Himself was criticizing such attitude, calling Pharisees the whitened tombs, pretending with their empty gestures and clothes to be close to God, when in fact there was no love to God and people in their hearts. So it's definitely not the right attitude.
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@JJ-hb9in Well, my country is mostly Catholic, and many people still go to church (although of course it also changes a bit, especially among the youngest generations). And also our national identity is for us much important. And we have generally such attitude that of course, we should help people from other countries in crisis, but helping doesn't mean allowing, in a totally uncontrolled way, half of the world to the EU area. Help should be provided in those countries or at least regions from where they come from, so that they could live within their own nations and cultures, built their lives there, not just leave their countries deserted. And of course, "migrant" is a very broad, undefined term - because it contains not only real refugees, but also all the others, also those that come with hostile intentions and pose serious risks. So that's obvious that really wise, sound immigration policy, not posing threats to state security and public order, is essential, and not all this insane policy, like forced by some EU countries, called policy of "Herzlich willkommen" to all the migrants, no matter from where, no matter with what intentions and no matter how many of them, allowed with completely no control. It's indeed sad to see what's happening in some of the European countries, struggling with huge problems mostly with muslim migrants. And about migrants from Syria, only part of them may be Christians, because a lot of muslims also live there (I've read that there was only about 5% of Christians in Syria, now it's of course less). So it's (and used to be) only a minority religion there, most were muslims. And what You write about Christians not caring about anything, thinking that there will be end of the world, with the second coming of Christ, soon - it's probably about some crazy sects thinking like that. I don't know anyone like that. We just live our lives, as good as we can, that's all. And also it doesn't make sense to make any such apocalyptic assumptions. Definitely the Church, at least Catholic one, doesn't teach such attitude, to think that the world will end soon and to concentrate with fear on such predictions. Afterall, in the past, in history there were also so many horrible periods, like during the WW II, that people could think that's the end of the times, end of humanity. So there were more times, periods with wars, bloodshed, genocide etc., that seemed to be the end and Apocalypse coming soon. But it's not what we should concentrate on, not on some apocalyptic fears, but how to live our everyday lives well. So I think that You have a bit strange vision of Christianity, not like it really is, at least not as I know it from my Church and country.
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Crime rate has nothing to do with Christianity, for sure. And many Christian countries, also those being much Christian, have also low crime rate. And if the crime rate goes up, it's often connected with many other factors - for instance, as we can see now, with accepting huge waves of immigrants from completely different, often hostile, cultures, or some crises, poverty etc. So it's not like this.
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Also the most widely acknowledged language of the academic community, at all of the global and most of the regional important conferences, of international scientific journals, of publications, of international scientific committees and organizations and so on - is English. So if someone wants to have current knowledge about word's development in many fields, like for instance medicine and many, many others, or to do anything relating to academic career, he should know English. And it's not new at all that people want to be able to communicate (not only while meeting face to face, but also by reading for instance scientific or other works, diplomatic correspondence etc.) across boundaries in one language - now it's English. In the past it was for instance Latin. Later, in Europe it was French, as most of the elites, like in XVII or XVIIIth century, were learning this. And before English became so widely spoken across the world, there was even a special, artificially created in the second half of the XIXth century, language - with a purpose to enable people from different nations to be able to communicate in just one language, instead of having to learn many of them - this artificially created auxiliary language was called Esperanto (You can read about it in English in Internet, also in Wikipedia). The creator of Esperanto was Ludwik Zamenhof. And I just cannot imagine that nowadays someone doesn't want to learn any foreign languages at all - it also broadens one's horizons. For me for instance it's a pleasure to able to read books in foreign languages. And I would feel myself disabled not being able to talk to people from other countries at all. It's also important when someone wants to see something outside just their own country (which great majority of people do).
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@johnyoo3300 What are You even talking about? Mixing Christianity with horrible, totalitarian regimes and ideologies, like communism based on marxist notions, responsible for death of millions, mass genocide and so many inhuman atrocities, bestial tortures, system of gulags and other concentration camps. Of course, Christians oppose to such horrible regimes and ideologies, resulting in genocide, enslavement, torture of millions. By the way, my country is in majority Catholic, since ages, but we were fighting with bolsheviks since the very beggining, since 1919. So we know very well the reality, better than anyone, and what such totalitarian regimes and ideologies bring with themselves.
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SabinaS.N.O.W. I do watch this channel since much longer time. And if I would like to watch videos about islam, I would choose different channels. It's not the first one, but another, again, about similar topic. I want to watch this channel like I used to, but not videos about islam. And as stated above, religion is a sensitive topic. If it's only about one religion again, it shows that the channel is different that it used to be. If it would turn into a channel for muslims, for sure I won't watch. And it's also discriminatory - there are many more religions, so there should be videos equally about them also, or no videos about any religions.
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@dank2476 Of course, there is no one living who is without a sin, we are all sinners, no one is perfect. That's obvious. But still, the main feature of God is mercy. The Divine Mercy is greater than anything, and He is not some horrible judge who intends to condemn the sinners. He wants to save them, because every soul lost is also a hurtful wound to His Sacred Heart. And it's easy to say if someone was born in a Christian culture, family etc. For someone born outside Christian culture, it's not always so easy to convert. But still, all people are the children of God (He didn't die on cross only for Christians, but for all), and all have His voice in their hearts and souls, as His children - it depends on them if they want to hear it and go along the right path in their lives or not. For not Christians it's just harder. But it doesn't mean that they cannot be good people, living according to God's will, even if they are not Christians. It doesn't mean that they must be condemned by God, just for not converting to Christianity, apart completely from the way they lived, it's not like that. In my country many people pray at 3 p.m. (the Divine Mercy Hour when Jesus died on the Cross) everyday with the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, with the words: "Eternal Father, I offer You the Body and the Blood, Soul and Divinity of Your Dearly Beloved Son, Our Lord, Jesus Christ, in atonement for our sins and those of the whole world. For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and the whole world.". So we pray for all people, not only Christians.
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@dank2476 Well, as Catholics, we don't believe in such determinism. Of course, we cannot redeem ourselves without God and His grace. And He is willing to give all the graces to us, because He loves us and wants to save us. But He gave also every human a free will. So every human may choose, in his heart and soul, to reject God, to reject all the love, good and light He is the source of, it's each one's own free will. And God gives us graces, to save us from bad, sinful live, but we must accept it - He doesn't force it on us, because it would be against our free will, given by Him. We must ask, in our hearts, for His forgiveness, for his help, for ability to accept his grace, for a change of heart. God doesn't force anything on us, we are not His slaves, but children, who have free will. And like the prodigal son (in the Gospel parable), we can choose to leave and go our own, wrong path - but if we are willing to come back, even after long time (sometimes even with our last breath on this world, if we truly want this, and not always it's possible to be in the church, because situations in human lives on this world are different), He will always accept us, as the loving and forgiving Father, full of mercy, not just reject and condemn.
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@dank2476 For me, with such way of thinking it would mean that God loves only some of the people, and He doesn't care about others, and they are born already condemned. It's horrible to think like that. And it is not true, because all are His children, He died on cross for everyone, not only for some chosen ones, He wants to save everyone, He loves all His children (but some, with their free and aware will, choose to reject Him, so they reject all good, love and light He is the source of, till the end - and only this can make them be condemned). We believe that every sinner (and we all are sinners, some are more, some less) has a chance till the end. But sometimes, if someone did horrible things all his life, he just can't change his heart anymore, he is not able to regret and to ask God for forgiveness, and he rejects God, after having nothing but bad heart for his whole life. So in fact, it's not God who condemns him, but a human chooses himself, with his free will, to totally reject God and His Mercy.
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@dank2476 No, it's not like that. It would make God some unjust, horrible creature, choosing some of the people discretionarily, for salvation and all the others for eternal suffering, no matter what they do. And it's definitely not like that. We don't believe in such horrible God, but loving one. Such vision is horrible. In fact, the God's Mercy and His Redemption must meet with a person's free will. And we also pray for the others, so that are able to let God to their hearts, so that are able to understand that they need Him and ask Him for help, that's all, it can be often enough to save them.
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@dank2476 We don't believe that anyone is condemned already when he is born, just the opposite. And God doesn't choose anyone to be condemned, just the opposite. We believe in God, who is loving and merciful, for everyone. Who come to save the world, not to condemn it. In such faith, saying that anyone, when born as an infant is already condemned to hell, based on such horribke determinism, it would mean that no matter how a person lives, no matter if a person believes or not, it means nothing, as being already condemned. We don't have such vision of God, for sure. It's terrifying, not giving hope and strenght to live well, despite our weaknesses as humans. We believe that there's always hope, for everyone, and God will help everyone, if only such person truly wants this and asks about it. He doesn't want any soul to be lost, He suffered so much for us, for everyone, to save us, not to condemn. But unlike Evangelical Churches, Protestants, we as Catholics believe also in purgatory (which is a balance between God's Mercy and His Justice, so two features of God, however His main feature is Mercy itself).
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@dank2476 Original sin means that our nature is not perfect, but prone to sin. But it doesn't definitely mean that it's enough for a human to be condemned by God for eternal hell, for instance innocent infant that dies. That's definitely not like that. Original sin means that we are not able not to have any sins in our lives, that's why we must ask God for help, regret and ask for forgiveness for our sins - no one can say that he is without a sin. But just being born with the original sin, meaning being prone to committing sins, doesn't mean at all that anyone is condemned, for sure. God is not a monster who would condemn infants and children and good people with pure hearts and souls to hell. And unlike other Churches, we also believe in Holy Sacraments, like confession and Eucharist (the Holy Communion), so being able to unite with forgiving God, even on this Earth, during our lives.
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@mvl6827 One should understand and give the source of the citation - and whole this saying that "religion is opium for the people" is Karl Marx. His ideology, and communism based on it, led to horrible things, deaths and suffering of millions. So one should give the real source of this citation and the context. And I come from the country that was fighting with the Bolsheviks and Red Army almost since the beginning, we know better that the others what such ideologies bring with themselves (many people in the Western European or even American countries just don't understand this, not going through such historical experiences themselves). We were at the communist side of the Iron Curtain for 50 years, so we know how it really was - what such ideologies bring. Many totally innocent people, men, women, even teenagers, were brutally tortured, murdered, especially during the Stalinist times, but later also. And the Church was much persecuted, the priests, giving hope to people, were also often brutally tortured, kidnapped, murdered by the communists, even till the end of communism, till 1989. So I just think that one should give full context of the above mentioned citation.
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@mvl6827 No, it's not the same. Because this is not just about a piece of music, but about very specific phrases, used in a very specific context - even by You, to oppose to every religion, not taking into account anything. And I just don't agree with these specific phrases. For my nation religion (we're mostly Catholics, since centuries) always was a source of hope, that hepled us to survive, to go through the most horrible moments in history. And such ideologies, saying like above that "religion is opium for masses", were in fact really this "opium", bringing real hell to this world - and it's both, about nazism and communism, because both of these horrible ideologies were trying to destroy the Church and religion, bringing only unimaginable horrors. So we just have different perspective. And I don't say that You don't have the right to Your own opinion (by the way, like most of people I of course also like all these old songs, of the Beatles and Lennon). But I just don't agree. We in my country experienced very well how the world without God looks like.
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@homie3461 About "borrowing" something from Prussia, this was probably true in certain aspects, especially military, but regarding the second half of the XIXth century and the first half of the XXth century (so in the times of Prussia, and later Nazi Germany). And we know how it all ended. So being influenced by Prussia (in terms of militarization of the country, expansion of the army, authoritarianism and strong nationalism, that were so characteristic for Prussia, and later Nazi Germany) was not a good idea - especially in the aspect of humanity - as history has shown and led to tragic times for millions of people. So choosing this path, it was probably one of the reasons they did during the II World War the same things to people as Germans did in that time. But after the II WW, so in the modern times, their "structure" was influenced by other countries, not by Germany that fortunately lost the war. So it doesn't seem really true to say that "modern structure" of Japan, in modern times, was borrowed from Prussia (as said above, only some aspects of "structure", before and during the II WW). And after all, Japan is an old, unique civilisation, with its own unique traditions and culture, so saying that their "modern structure" was based on Prussia example doesn't seem really right, or at least a big simplification out of context.
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@homie3461 I do not speculate and I know history quite well. And of course Prussian state is not the same as Hitler and Nazis, which was much later (and, as all know, was completely sick, insane ideology). But when You write about Prussia and modernization in the past taking into account this state as an example, You shouldn't mix various periods in history. An authoritarian, old state cannot be called an example for modern, nowadays states and their structure. And of course in Japan there were, during the II WW, no Nazi party (such as in Germany), and this is not what I meant. But when mentioning such states as Prussia, it is about militarization, authoritarianism, nationalism and so on. But this was before the II WW. Not after. And the real modern times were after the war. And for sure, I do not say that for instance colonialism of some states (Poland didn't have any colonies) and colonial leadership was anything good. But also definitely no one can say that there was anything good in the II WW - taking into account terrible genocide acts committed in that times, and death and tragedy of so many people.
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@homie3461 I do not think that such matters as constitution of a state or education are mundane. In fact, there are very important. And I've read about development of constitutionalism in the history, also about first Japanese written constitution, which was considered probably one of the first in Asia. By the way, Polish first written constitution (of 3 May 1791) was first in Europe and second in the world. But I think that what was considered modern in some time in the past and along with that time authoritarian, absolutist systems and different values, in different era (like in the times of first transition from feudal systems in XIXth century), cannot really be considered modern later, especially after the II WW. And as I said, I do not think of course that colonialism was good and justified at all. But also I definitely cannot agree that it was anything good in the starting of II WW. And I can only be sorry if someone has such opinions. Such person should visit at least once so many German Nazi death camps, like Auschwitz-Birkenau (or many other similar places, like Stutthof, Dachau, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Gross-Rosen, Ravensbrueck, Sachsenhausen and so on, where hundreds of thousands of people, of different nationalities, were killed in the most inhumane ways). And also, regarding Japan, the atomic bombs this was also terrible death of many people, because of war. And there were also some terrible experiments on people. So I just cannot agree that anything can be called worth of such sufferings and such hell on earth. But I should add that I do not have anything against Germans nowadays, I can speak German and I like reading books in German. But I just believe that it is important to remember what really happened in the past, and what led to this, so it will not come back, at least on such terrible scale in the future, when another wars can happen. Because it can be back.
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