My friend forwarded me an email from a church mailing list she belongs to. In this email, there is a link to a youtube video about the Muslim demography in the world, how the Muslims in the world are creating more babies and the people in the predominantly Christians (at least formerly) countries are have less babies.
The video argued that for a culture to sustain itself, it needs a fertility rate of at least 2.11 children per family. And the people the in the developed nations are having less children, while they’re seeing an influx of immigrants from Moslem countries. Slowly, the Muslim will become the majority in these countries, and in the world over.
A person by the name Muhammar al-Gaddafi of Libya was quoted in the video for saying, “There are signs that Allah will grant victory to Islam in Europe without swords, without guns, without conquest. We don’t need terrorists, we don’t need homocide bombers, the fifty million plus Muslims [in Europe] will turn it into a Muslim continent within a few decades.”
So?
The guy who first sent the email to my friend’s mailing list commented, “It would be better if we [Christians] have at least three children, if our finances permit.”
Why the fear?
I am a Christian, but I think this kind of reasoning is at the very least dumb, and at most, insulting. Insulting to us Christians, and insulting to our Muslim brothers and sisters.
First of all, these newborns are just people. So what if they were born into Muslim faiths? Like most of us weren’t born into our Christian faiths? There are many good Muslim families out there I know.
Second of all, since when did Jesus commission his people to pro-create and fill the earth with Christians? Sure God commanded Adam and Eve to “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground” (Genesis 1:28). But it’s for mankind in general.
The Great Commission Christ gave us was to teach and baptize people.“All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” (Matthew 28:18-20).
We are not to make Christians, we are to convert them.
So why the fear?
And to whoever Muslims happened to read this, no I am not trying to convert you to pork-eating, man-following bunch. I don’t eat pork, and I don’t follow man (though questionably, I am still at the stage where I’m still unstable).
But let us all be truth-finders. Let us not fear. Let us be willing to open up our hearts and minds.
Let us not be born into our faiths, but let us embrace it because we know with great assurance that this is the truth.
Singapore,
Sunday, 10 May 2009, 4:20PM
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