Every year, at the beginning of the ninth month in older, Middle Eastern calendars, Ramadan is celebrated by Muslims. The time it actually begins varies from year to year, as it is a lunar holy day, and will be about eleven or twelve days before the calendar date it started the preceding year. It is a fasting festival; everyone fasts during the day, and eats at night. Whatever would have been spent on food during the day is supposed to be donated to charity to feed those who cannot afford food, and one is supposed to remember how blessed one is and renew one's sense of gratitude. Women who are menstrating or pregnant, children who are still growing, and those who are ill, are usually not expected to fast.
I find this aspect of Islam beautiful, because every Muslim I have ever met sincerely believes in his or her Deity. They differ from the Midwestern United States blase hypocritical Christians in this way. Kansas and Idaho Christians care for more vulnerable people by sending folks like Laura Silsby to places like Haiti after natural disasters to trick the homeless earthquake victims into parting with their children, so that the children could be sold for a profit and the parents later told they are out of luck. School is about to start here in Kansas, and I truly hope that during Ramadan, I do not hear any pleas or threats to convert to Christianity from the morally bankrupt staff at the public school my children attend. Actually, I hope NEVER to hear stuff of that nature from teachers here in Kansas, but many of them forget that there are people who actually LOOK and LISTEN before they make up their minds.
This is a community, eating together at dusk, during Ramadan. I have never been invited to the home of a Christian in the Midwest for dinner at any time, so called "holy" day or not. I have eaten with some non xians here, and I had many friends among the more educated communities of Christians and other religions in other parts of the country and world. How come Midwestern United States Christians are too good for anyone? And are they too good for their so called messiah? When fasting, I do not think that your Diety wished for you to do without FOOD for THOUGHT!
I find this aspect of Islam beautiful, because every Muslim I have ever met sincerely believes in his or her Deity. They differ from the Midwestern United States blase hypocritical Christians in this way. Kansas and Idaho Christians care for more vulnerable people by sending folks like Laura Silsby to places like Haiti after natural disasters to trick the homeless earthquake victims into parting with their children, so that the children could be sold for a profit and the parents later told they are out of luck. School is about to start here in Kansas, and I truly hope that during Ramadan, I do not hear any pleas or threats to convert to Christianity from the morally bankrupt staff at the public school my children attend. Actually, I hope NEVER to hear stuff of that nature from teachers here in Kansas, but many of them forget that there are people who actually LOOK and LISTEN before they make up their minds.
This is a community, eating together at dusk, during Ramadan. I have never been invited to the home of a Christian in the Midwest for dinner at any time, so called "holy" day or not. I have eaten with some non xians here, and I had many friends among the more educated communities of Christians and other religions in other parts of the country and world. How come Midwestern United States Christians are too good for anyone? And are they too good for their so called messiah? When fasting, I do not think that your Diety wished for you to do without FOOD for THOUGHT!
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