I am posting images on how Christians ridicule Hindus,
I have not found any thing similar by the Muslims .
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Research Study by PEW Research Center has revealed some interesting facts.
1.Christianity has ‘width , not depth in distribution’
I am using Corporate jargon as Christianity of the day is run like a Corporate.
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A comprehensive demographic study of more than 200 countries finds that there are 2.18 billion Christians of all ages around the world, representing nearly a third of the estimated 2010 global population of 6.9 billion. Christians are also geographically widespread – so far-flung, in fact, that no single continent or region can indisputably claim to be the center of global Christianity.
A century ago, this was not the case. In 1910, about two-thirds of the world’s Christians lived in Europe, where the bulk of Christians had been for a millennium, according to historical estimates by the Center for the Study of Global Christianity.2 Today, only about a quarter of all Christians live in Europe (26%). A plurality – more than a third – now are in the Americas (37%). About one in every four Christians lives in sub-Saharan Africa (24%), and about one-in-eight is found in Asia and the Pacific (13%)…
2.Regional Distribution of Christians.
The number of Christians around the world has nearly quadrupled in the last 100 years, from about 600 million in 1910 to more than 2 billion in 2010. But the world’s overall population also has risen rapidly, from an estimated 1.8 billion in 1910 to 6.9 billion in 2010. As a result, Christians make up about the same portion of the world’s population today (32%) as they did a century ago (35%).
3.Christian Traditions.
About half of all Christians worldwide are Catholic (50%), while more than a third are Protestant (37%). Orthodox communions comprise 12% of the world’s Christians. Other Christian groups, which make up the remaining 1%, include the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons), Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Christian Science Church.
he Catholic Church includes the international body of churches in full communion with the bishop of Rome, the pope. These churches include the Western (or Latin) church and 22 Eastern Catholic churches.1 Each of these churches has a distinct hierarchy and traditional liturgy, prayers and religious observances. The Western (Latin) church is the largest of these autonomous churches. Among the major branches of the Eastern churches are the Alexandrian, Antiochene, Armenian, Byzantine and Chaldean.2
Catholicism, taken as a whole, is the world’s largest Christian tradition. The Catholic Church teaches that its bishops are the successors of Christ’s apostles and that the pope, as the successor to St. Peter, possesses a unique authority in the church.3 Catholic doctrine maintains that the church is infallible in its dogmatic teaching on matters of faith and morals.4 Catholic worship is centered on the Eucharist, in which, according to the church’s teaching, the bread and wine are supernaturally transformed into the body and blood of Christ. 5
Protestant
Protestants are broadly defined in this report to include three groups.6 The first group is made up of historic Protestants who belong to churches originating (or reformulated) at the time of the 16th-century Protestant Reformation in Europe, as well as other denominations that came later, such as Methodists. The Protestant Reformation was led by Martin Luther, John Calvin and other theologians who “protested” the doctrines, rituals and ecclesiastical structure of the Catholic Church, leading to the creation of new national churches. The doctrines of the various Protestant denominations vary, but most include belief in grace through faith alone (known as sola fide or “by faith alone”), belief in the Bible as the ultimate authority in matters of faith and order (known as sola scriptura or “by scripture alone”) and belief in the priesthood of all believers.7
Anglicans are the second group of Christians categorized in this report under the broad banner of Protestantism. This category refers to Christians who belong to churches with historical connections to the Church of England or have similar beliefs, worship styles and church structures. The great majority of Anglicans are members of churches that are part of the international Anglican Communion, which recognizes the archbishop of Canterbury as its “Focus for Unity.”8 The Church of England emerged as a distinct Western Christian ecclesial tradition in the early 16th century, when King Henry VIII declared his supremacy over the English church and its independence from papal authority.9
The third group broadly defined as Protestants in this report is independent Christians. Independent Christians have developed ecclesial structures, beliefs and practices that are claimed to be independent of historic, organized Christianity.10 Independent Christians include denominations in sub-Saharan Africa that identify as independent from historically Protestant denominations, churches in China that are not affiliated with official religious associations and nondenominational churches in the United States.
Regional Distribution of Christians.
According to a Pew Forum analysis of estimates from the Center for the Study of Global Christianity (CSGC) at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, there are about 279 million pentecostal Christians and 305 million charismatic Christians in the world. (For definitions, see Defining Christian Movements.) This means that, according to this analysis, pentecostal and charismatic Christians together make up about 27% of all Christians and more than 8% of the world’s total population.15 (As noted in the Executive Summary, these estimates are based primarily on numbers provided by Christian organizations and are derived differently from the other figures in this study, which are based mainly on censuses and surveys.
Source:
http://www.pewforum.org/Christian/Global-Christianity-movements-and-denominations.aspx
Morocco‘s High Council of Ulemas(Religious Scholars) have decreed that those who left Islam must be killed.
They have quoted Surat Al -Baqarah Verse 217 to justify this.
http://www.reddit.com/tb/1d55nj
Story:
Translation of the Image above.
They ask you about the sacred month – about fighting therein. Say, “Fighting therein is great [sin], but averting [people] from the way of Allah and disbelief in Him and [preventing access to] al-Masjid al-Haram and the expulsion of its people therefrom are greater [evil] in the sight of Allah . And fitnah is greater than killing.” And they will continue to fight you until they turn you back from your religion if they are able. And whoever of you reverts from his religion [to disbelief] and dies while he is a disbeliever – for those, their deeds have become worthless in this world and the Hereafter, and those are the companions of the Fire, they will abide therein eternally”
Christian converts in Morocco feared for their future Thursday, April 25, after the country’s highest Islamic institute issued a fatwa demanding the death penalty for Muslims who renounce their religion.
The Supreme Ulema Council of Morocco (CSO), a body of Islamic scholars headed by King Mohammed VI, said that Muslims who reject their faith “should be condemned to death.” CSO is the only institution entitled to issue ‘fatwas’, or religious decrees, in Morocco.
The ministry of Islamic affairs declined to comment on the issue.
The fatwa dates back to April 2012 when a legal report was prepared by the government, but it wasn’t published at the time, according to local media.
Mahjoub El Hiba, a senior human rights official in the Moroccan government, denied to reporters that the government received a fatwa on “apostasy” — the word used for abandoning Islam — as the Arabic-language daily Akhbar al-Youm had claimed.
CRACKDOWN FEARED
The different statements could not be immediately reconciled, but local Christians expressed concern about the situation, saying it could lead to a new crackdown on the country’s tiny Christian community of some 22,000 people.
There’s a lot of confusion and discussion in Morocco right now about the fatwa,” said a pastor near the city of Marrakech in a statement distributed by advocacy group International Christian Concern (ICC). “We fear that if the fatwa is approved, the government will use it to harass us and even arrest us during our meetings,” the church leader added, speaking on condition of anonymity.
“The [Islamic] fundamentalists will have an excuse to harm us,” the pastor reportedly said.
ICC Regional Manager for the Middle East, Aidan Clay, agrees that the fatwa adds to concern about the position of Christians in the Islamic nation of over 32 million people. ”
http://www.bosnewslife.com/28041-morocco-fatwa-demands-death-sentence-for-christian-converts
The case for Living together is basically one of embarking in a Relationship with out Commitment.
Put it bluntly it is taken as a licence and a short route to Debauchery and sexual gratification a la animals with out a sense of responsibility.
(some studies show Gorillas have a strong sense of marital Commitment!)
Some of the Reasons provided.Reason#1 – It’s financially responsible.
Where I live, an apartment can run you somewhere between $700 and $1400. Dropping an extra $1000/month seems like throwing your money down the drain. If you’re a particularly “committed co-habitor” (yep, I like the term too 
), you might even be building up equity in a home you’ve bought together.”
You can do that even by Marrying.
You spend all your time together anyways. Like wasting money with rent, wasting time is equally frustrating. You drive to each other’s places many times during the week. You help each other with cooking and cleaning and laundry and bills. Traveling back and forth, virtually living in two places, is kind of like the inconvenience of living out of a bag on a business trip. It’s annoying. If you want to be together, why all the running around?
Reason #3 – It seems like a good next step in the relationship. Consumers that we are in America, everything exists with a try it before you buy it clause. Every infomercial promises that you can try it and return it in 30 days for a full refund. And the bigger the purchase, the more you want to make sure it’s just right. What kind of fool would buy a car before thorough inspection and testing? Thankfully, marriage in our society today does, to a degree, maintain some semblance of “a big deal”. Couples don’t want to rush into that. Well, what about a “____ day money-back” transition period to see if this relationship truly feels right? These test periods make sense in every other aspect of our lives, why not our relationships?
Reason #4 – It’s so common. By definition, nothing will make something seem like “not a big deal” faster than commonality. I guarantee you know couples that are living together outside of marriage. In fact, many of you, especially if you tend towards the younger generations, might know more couples that are living together than not. It’s the age old, after-school-special argument of “How can it be that bad if everybody’s doing it?” It was not, at least statistically speaking, common 40 years ago though. Imagine that, after the sexually open-minded 60s, co-habitation was still considered fairly taboo. People that lived together outside of marriage (particularly women – a strange double standard in our society that’s more appropriate for another article) developed reputations. People don’t like bad reputations. Regardless of ethnicity or religion, there is one word out there that young women don’t want to be called more than any other word. Young people don’t call young girls promiscuous or even “skanky” anymore. They call them this word – a word that will make a girl feel more worthless than any other – a destructive word that I guarantee is used at your child’s school. 40 years ago, living together with a man would earn a woman a label like this. Not anymore. In fact, if she’s only sexually active with one man, marriage or not, she’s virtually safe from labels today. It’s just so common that it won’t warrant a subjective label like that.
Reason #5 – We love each other. Love is a funny word. It’s a fascinating biblical word. When a young couple chooses to live together because they love one another.
Can one see any valid argument here?
If ‘ we love each other’ why not marry?
“Reasons for Living together:
Sillier reasons , you can not find!
What are the statistics on Living Together?
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http://marriage.about.com/od/cohabitation/qt/cohabfacts.htm
Some more facts.
Read this.
Of the 45 percent or so who do marry after living together, they are 50 percent more likely to divorce than those who remained separate before the wedding.So instead of 22 of the 45 couples divorcing (the 50 percent divorce rate) about 33 will divorce. That leaves just 12 couples who have begun their relationship with cohabitation who end up with a marriage lasting 10 years.
LOPEZ: Isn’t it practical sometimes?
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/224058/no-way-live/interview
The issue of Love Marriage occupies an important decision-making point in India,
Though the number of love Marriages have increased in India, there are still lingering doubts about the success rate of these Marriages.
The spate of Divorces of late have reignited the resistance to Love marriages, when it was on the wane and Love marriages were not beginning not to be frowned upon.
I watched the successful Talk how ‘Neeya Naana‘ in Star Vijay on 21 January.
This Talk show is a very rare show where there is some sense and purpose and is never staid or Stale.
Major credit is to the Anchor Mr.Gopinath.
Now to the point on hand.
Why are some people against Love marriages even at this Age?
Let us look some facts.
Before we proceed to analyse the points, let me add a few points on my impressions of the Show.
The show was informative and engrossing.
To be fair the anchor, as usual, did not have any pre conceived notions on the subject and drew the participants out.
Protagonist for Love marriages’ assertion that it is only marriages that nurse he well-being og the Society and they talked as if Love marriage alone is the most important point in one’s Life!
In general, both people who are against and for love marriages greed that Love marriages with out parents’ approval leave one in pain and the couple fend for themselves with out the approval from the relatives and the Society.
They found that getting their children married pose a daunting problem.
The problems for Love marriages with out parents approval in India:
1.The couple are disowned their parents.
2.In case they fall into hard times, there is none to help them.
3.If there is a misunderstanding between the couple, there is nobody to turn to diffuse the tension.
4.Parents face social ostracism of sorts from the Society, even from the enlightened sections of the Society.
5.Parents can not take part in any social discussions in Public, being branded as the parents of the ‘Eloped’
6.Even if the couple who get married against their parents wishes, feel that the pain they have to undergo when their parents disown them and feel totally humiliated when their children do not receive the warmth and affection from their parents as Grand father and Grand Mother.
7.Parents though they said they were against these marriages, were favorably inclined to agree if the Boy has no vices and earn reasonably well to support a wife.
The main concern of the parents , as is normal with a parent, is whether the Girl would suit the family or would end up breaking it.
Being from two different environment- whether it would be easy to make adjustments for day-to-day Life.
Love is fine but the question of adjustment in daily life?
If one of the partners were to hail from another Religion, it becomes very oppressive to adjust to their behavior. however broad minded one is.
What we ought to be is different from what we are.
Even when people marry from similar backgrounds arranged by the parents one finds it difficult to adjust.
This is natural as two personalities can never be identical.
If this is so, what about the marriages from entirely different back ground including from the time one wakes up?
Parents arrange marriages with the intention of making their children happy and at the same time ensure that the couple have the least point of known differences.
This is practical.
And this is not to say that all arranged marriages are successful and Love Marriages are doomed to fail.
The chances of Love marriages failing due to different Life Styles are greater.
Then comes the question of Caste.
In India it is fashionable to break down any cause to caste.
Caste is nothing a feeling that one higher than the other.
This is inbuilt in the Human Psyche.
Every one wants to assert that he a cut above the rest.
People with similar way of living form into groups and they stick together.
This is Human nature.
One can not force one to like another
It is a personal choice.
Nature and dispositions determine caste.
It is fashionable to decry Caste without understanding the Concept which is based on Human nature.
I noted in the progarmme that(though I am aware of it) that as to who are most open to inter caste marriages economic status being alright, it is the Brahmins (who are called the Higher caste, though they do not declare it!), they are in the fore front!
It is a fact that the practice of ill-treating the so-called scheduled caste is by the other communities and not by Brahmins.
How many cases of’ ‘Two Tumblers’ were practiced by the Brahmins?
The recent attack on a dalit( an ingenious way of segregating a community, coined by , I think Ambedkar!) where Community Homes were destroyed was instigated by the Vanniyar Community instigated by Ramadoss who runs a political out fit.
They declare that their community is being polluted by the dalit!
Even those who declare that they would ‘kill their daughter’ if they marry outside the caste state that they would do nothing of the sort if the community they marry into happens to be a Higher One!( In fact a Man declared so in the show)
In essence Love marriages are good.
But they have to be tempered with a check on background.
What one gets at the age of 17/ 18 is sexual attraction.
It will not stand.
Parents who have brought you up know what is good for you seek their guidance and be open with them.
Parents must also not treat Love Marriages as some thing Evil.
Check and if the Boy or Girl is good, the family and economic background is reasonably good, go ahead.
Do not lose your children.
They are our Blood.
Marriages are personal issues, to be decided by the individuals and their families, in that order.
The Social Activists, better look to their families first.
Look at the families of some of the Self Respect Movement Leaders in Tamil Nadu,Illegal Children ,Bigamy and Concubines in Public.
There was a talk in the show that the Tamil Culture speaks highly of Love.
What people chose to ignore is that it never allows illegal liaisons .
Nor does it approve of all love.
If it were so why there is ‘kalavozhkkam,kaikkilai,madaleruthal’ in Tamil Literature?
Point is that human nature has been the same especially On Love ; there have been resistances, approvals.
Do not try to misquote Tami by saying all Love was approved.
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