I saw myself as a protector of my religion

Avec : Assaad Chaftari

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Extraits marquants

Unfortunately Christianity became a title to define myself with or my people. But it should be a way of living a life of love.

Résumé

Unfortunately, I defended military Christianity, mixing politics with religious. It wasn't anymore a way of living a life of love.

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I remember that at a certain
level I was a Daesh myself

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or an ISIS myself, you know.

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I was so taken by
my religious beliefs,

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felt that I should be like the
Crusaders, you know,

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defending
military Christianity,

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mixing politics with spiritual
and religious

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made of me what
made of me.

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I did all this I think without
any problem with my conscience,

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because I was serving a
holy cause,

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the cause of Christianity in Lebanon,

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the Christians and Christianity
even the Middle East

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and maybe the whole world!

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I saw myself as a kind of
protector of Christianity.

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I could go and have Communion
on Sunday without even

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feeling that I had sinned.

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Why this thing, why a
good Christian becomes,

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carries weapons and kills
and takes part in violence

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andhatred and similar things,
you know?

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I think say that at a certain
level I let politics

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and the things of this world
overcome my religious beliefs.

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It's as if I had now a new
identity which is a title I put

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and I define myself with or
identify my people with.

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It's when Christianity became
for me an identification rather

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than what it should
have been and stayed

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since the beginning, meaning: "a
way of of living

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and following the path
of what Jesus came to tell us

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about love", you know.

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He never told us you should get
organized as Christians,

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you should have Christian
countries or Christian entities

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and defend Christians
by carrying weapons.

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But this you understand or I
understood much much

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much later on you know.