There's a difference between lauding a group for killing Christians and respecting a group for pursuing self-determination and making firm stands for themselves, especially in an era where the Beast system of Revelation either exists or is emerging. It's like respecting the Roman Empire as a historical figure even though that same Empire put a lot of Christians to death.
And if you ask me, Christians should be persecuted. It is how the Church grows strongest. Our lack of persecution is precisely what has made us grow ineffective and effeminate as Christians. Persecution also causes us to scatter among the nations and make disciples from other nations. God doesn't want a Church of only one nation. He wants a Church of every nation, every tribe, every tongue. Persecution is good for the Church and this is affirmed by Jesus's own words and in the events reported in the Book of Acts.
It also purifies the Church; no "LGBT Christian" will want to be part of a persecuted church. Their religion is homosexuality, and they merely want it in religious trappings. They have nothing they are interested in being martyred over. I had a post earlier on this forum discussing this concept that globohomo beliefs are only beliefs to live for, not die for. The whole point of being able to engage in sodomy is to engage in sodomy. You can't do that when you're dead.
Christ is worth dying for. And we should be praying that God will train us to welcome death for His sake, rather than forsake His name because we'd rather get fat, rich, stupid, and gay. In globohomo you find the fear of death because death denies you the pleasure of defiling one another's flesh. In God, there is - or should be - no such thing.
And perhaps the Taliban will teach us how to find that defiance of the fear of death. God will turn their evil for good.
Respectfully,
The Taliban apologetics are really just laughable.
Speaking about these things on a figurative nature on the internet is ridiculous and a lot of bloviation. You can volunteer to go live in Afghanistan and get yourself martyred if that is the experience you so choose, but cut the figurative comments above.
Nobody is denying that Christ is worth dying for. But you dont praise the people who are doing the killing. Your comment just obfuscates the obvious evil of the Taliban and replaces it with the evils of the American Empire as though they are the same. Both are committing evil in some ways.
That notwithstanding... The American Military isn't killing people simply because they are Muslim/Christian ect.... They are killing them for a geopolitical objective. Taliban will kill you just for believing in a different religion. These people are backwoods and evil. Self-determination and self interest or not.
Again, I will refer to my comment that lauding these people shows how little people have going for them in the way of positive examples of masculinity and how out of touch they are, and probably how little life experience they have with Tribalist Muslims who advocate for Sharia Law or certain tribal and cultural practices in the Middle East that are accentuated by Islam.
Libya is another example of this where you can buy a fully castrated man (not just testes but all his male parts removed) as a result of tribal slave trade. This has been practiced by North African Muslims forever. America's first foreign war, the First Barbary Wars with Marine Lt Presley O bannon and the Battle of Derna which centered around Muslims capturing European and American Christians and turning them into slaves.
en.wikipedia.org
We should not have replaced Qadafi but we did. Now we are seeing a return to the practices occuring during the times of the First Barbary Wars with slave trade. Why? Because of the nature of the people and the cultural traditions of slavery.
Smugglers in Libya are auctioning migrants off as slaves. At a property outside Tripoli, CNN witnessed a dozen men go under the hammer in the space of minutes.
www.cnn.com
As far as Afghanistan is concerned. They can have the Taliban. I don't care. Again, maybe a group of inbred people with an IQ of 84 needs that.