is it permissible, converting christianity by leaving islam?
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Yes of course it is, religion is everyone personal rights and NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO FORCE YOU TO CHOOSE YOUR RELIGION. (but the Muslims won't think so, do you watch the news lately?, they almost execute someone because he convert). What's important is : \n1. Don't just leave Islam and convert to Christianity cause Arabs is bad and Christian organizations is good. They just the people, not the religion itself. An Atheist or even a Satanic believers can do good deeds to you while your fellow Muslims can trash you. Try to understand that concept.\n2. You have to learn Christianity first, different religion also entitled you different rules and obligations. Are you ready to do that and live the way of Jesus?
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Apparently you can, but it is not easy. It requires a total change of lifestyle and, in some cases, of faith.
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It seems that conversion by the sword would be a issue here. I think that in Islam that conversion by the sword is part of their tenets. Correct me if I am wrong but I beleive it is part of the Koran. \n\nOften in the middle ages conversion by the sword was practiced by Christian military leaders, in invasions, but I it was never actually part of Christian teaching. \n\nAnybody can do crazy things appealing to their misunderstood belief or religion so that means the playing field in this respect is a level one. But looking at from the points of their beliefs and seeing that one incites violence more than another would give you some idea which is more dangerous.
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Yes. Islam is the latest in history, which was preached through rulers' patronage either by invasions or by conversion. So, St. Pittsburgh was a place of Christians which got converted to Islam at one stage of history. Within first 100 years of Muhammad's death 90%  of European population was converted on point of sword to Islam, but later again through wars they got reconverted to their original faith.
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go to \nwww.watchislam.com and hear a former christian preacher telling u.\n\nother websites u can go to www.islamalways.com and www.islamchannel.tv\n\nyou can email your islamic questions at askislam@aol.com\nto get a professional islamic answer with refrences that u can check up urself\ngoodluck
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It's a difficult question. Nobody realistically thinks you can ignore the winds of change and remain relevant, but at the same time too much change sheds a suspicious light on your religion. I remember I was quite young when the pope notified his flock that Christianity is changing its official stance on jewish people. "From now on we don't believe that killing is a good thing." I think if I was Christian then I would have ceased to be. How can a teaching that has been so essential to the history of a religion be retracted? Balance is necessary. Honest religious people are constantly digging deep and asking themselves which areas are in the "unassailable truths" category and which are subject to the times.
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No. Orthodox faiths only let you marry inside your church. You could try to get him to convert.
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NO. To bribe someone to convert or attract to any religion is WRONG. Converting should only come from a person's heart & what they feel led to do. GOD "Allah" wants your heart to be pure. It shouldn't be tainted by bribing. Thats sinful & makes the bribor untrustworthy.
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Yes, you can, but not all of them.\n\nSome Mosque like the ones in Mecca and Medina, you can't enter even if you were starving to death, but they probably bring the food out for you.  outside of these cities.  Because if you are not Muslim, you are unholy, unclean, Nijis.  so your feet can't touch their holy city ground, unless you convert! then you become clean! \n\ndraw your own picture.  These are facts, I didn't make anything up.  They are known for their hospitality, and giving or providing food for those who needs it is not out of the ordinary.
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thank you first, for making a point that you didnt want to offend anybody and you respect all religions. If Christianity was orven to be false in the aspect that "Jesus was not our messiah" and he never lived at all, i would go to Judiasm, because it has the same basic principles, i would have to go through judiasm and muslim after christianity and then become an atheist. but i hope it doesnt come to that
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Absolutely NO WAY! I could not do that because I am happy with my religion. I don't let people affect my decisions. I make my own. I hope you don't let this "someone" change your religion.
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I left Christianity (i.e. Roman Catholicism - RC) because my RC grandparents were murdered in 2002 by their own RC sons and daughters.  Those animals were never arrested because they held influence with the RC church and the town officials where I lived in.\n\nI embraced Islam in 2004 and never regretted my decision.  I'm definitely happier now as a Muslim.\n\nPeace.
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--->Is it impossible to get an actual answer?<---\n\nYes actually because you are overlaying a Christian/Western understanding of justification/salvation onto a foreign system.  You cannot do that!  The question is not "are you saved" for a Muslim but rather "are you Muslim?" and "are you being obedient to the Qu'ran/the will of Allah?"\n\nThere is really no need to think about "forgiveness" or being forgiven, just about being Muslim.\n\nThat is why the appeals of Protestant Christianity (which is the "are you forgiven" / "are you saved"....non-Protestant Christians don't ask the questions that way) tend not to work, because there is nothing to be forgiven about if you have. submitted to Islam.  The whole question just doesn't make sense and can be viewed as insulting to Muslims.\n\nYou have to find a different approach if you want to make any headway in a discussion with Muslims over Christianity vs. Islam.
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If the religion you are in is not based on promises that you can give to people who ASK for help, then it is useless. If you are a Christian and you have to judge someone who isn't, you are a Spaz and need to get a life. If you are condemning behaviour and the person didn't exactly ask you for you opinion you are disrespectful. As far as converting, that should be somebody's choice if they want to change to a religion.  I say all this because the above behaviour is not what God's wants Christians to do, I know this because I am one.
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I'm not sure if it's killing infidels, but more like ridding them. In a sense, if you convert someone who isn't a muslim you have gotten rid of an infidel. I guess the teaching have obviously been twisted to suit some of their sick needs. Still it's just the few lost sheep in the religion that's giving the whole group a bad name to the good ones who just mind their own business and treat people with other religions with respect.
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If you want to follow the path of France you can capitualte and "hope" that the moderates in Islam will become tolerant of anyone that does not believe their way;\n\nOr you can follow the path of the conservative leadership in the USA which will use weapons, money, and power to impose a western type democracy in Islamic countries in hopes that moderates will prevail there?\n\nEither way its a tough road.  As to the capitulation; I'm quite certain the majority of both Islam and Christianity or the West would gladly tolerate each other.  I know there are some Christians that seem to "hate" those outside their religon, but it seems as those only those in radical Islam are violent and unwilling to tolerate anything but their way.\n\nSadly; I think until we defeat an intolerate, hate filled, extremist Islam there will be no peace in the world.  Hopefully moderate Islamist will defeat them from within.
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HERE IS A GUY WHO WAS PREACHER AND CONVERTED TO ISLAM ALONG WITH ANOTHER PRIEST AND HIS WHOLE FAMILY.\nWATCH HIS VIDEO\nhttp://www.watchislam.com/videos/video.php?vid=3