What Do Egypt's Christians Think?

AOL News:

Egypt's Coptic Christians are divided over whether to back beleaguered President Hosni Mubarak, whose secular government gave them certain protections but whose iron-fisted rule left them as broke and powerless as their Muslim neighbors.

Many Christians have flung themselves into street protests calling for Mubarak's ouster, saying new freedoms would be worth the risk that Muslim factions might eventually take power and deliver blows to the rights of religious minorities.

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Comments

[BlackYowe]

09:57 PM on 02/08/2011

I pray for the Coptic Christians for they have suffered so much already.

[monicaangela]

06:42 AM on 02/08/2011

War within war, indecision within indecisiveness, change but what kind of change, fear, but of what...the regime, the opposing religion?  It appears from this article, removal of the regime will be only the beginning of yet another struggle, the age old struggle of religious interpretation, the age old struggle of man interpreting and incorporating religion into the laws of the land.  Laws that will immediately limit the freedom of those that are fighting for freedom.

Religion like everything else on this earth has been used as a means of dominating and controlling, not uplifting and allowing freedom.  Differences in ideology between those who profess belief in deities has led to war, death and destruction from inception...and the practice continues.  When will man come together, sit down and try to work this out?  IMHO that is the only thing that will ever bring peace to the world and eliminate man's domination of man.

I hope the people in Egypt and the people around the world will consider this very important aspect of how religion is causing division....divided we fall.

[shthar]

10:01 PM on 02/07/2011

I think they better get the heck out of there!

[BlackYowe]

09:57 PM on 02/08/2011

There are 10 million of them. Do you have a spare bedroom?

[shthar]

12:04 AM on 02/09/2011

We have 2, but we'll have to move some boxes to the storage locker.

Are they allergic to cats?

[ZubinTomato]

06:34 PM on 02/07/2011

Don't Egypt's Christians think that a woman got pregnant without s e x and a magical Savior Baby was spawned who forgave me for feeling frisky when I saw pictures of Katy Perry, 2,000 years before I looked at them?

[syntax facit saltum]

12:39 AM on 02/08/2011

They don't. I hope you don't count yourself on the left ideologically. I think you would put an anthropologist from the age of Empire to shame with your bigoted imagery.

[ZubinTomato]

12:46 AM on 02/08/2011

Wow, thanks for clarifying that. So, according to you Egyptian Christians don't believe in the Bible. I'll make a note of it.

[Daleri Rileda]

02:08 PM on 02/07/2011

Why did I not expect to see anything different.

We need to allow the truth to present itself in every circumstance.

Ideology has to be realistic and 100% true from the beginning of time to this day.

[eldoret]

12:43 PM on 02/07/2011

Egypt’s WMD program

Mubarak’s covert missile & chemical weapons research underlines the need for urgent action by the UNSC to implement a Nuclear Weapons Free Zone in the MidEast to include both Israel and Iran.

The seriousness of successive US administrations in colluding with Israel in its nuclear ambiguity subterfuge, are only now being appreciated as the links between America, Israel and Egypt are slowly being uncovered.

Meanwhile Europe stands impotent on the sidelines as the arms race in the Middle East escalates and US military manufacturers continue their exports. Meanwhile, here in the EU, the largest single market in the world with a half a billion people in 27 states, we watch and wait as Washington (and Netanyahu) decide our future as well as that of the Middle East.
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