Singapore have a law on Maintenance of Religious Harmony Act. Which explicitly prohibits "causing feelings of enmity, hatred, ill-will or hostility between different religious groups" (Wikipedia). Some company thus have rules against religious activities and discussions while conducting business.
While in this working environment, if some one starts to provoke you by saying something against Christianity, do we have to defend our faith regardless?
Jesus have a solution. Matthew 22:17-21 says "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's". Jesus is saying that taxes are taxes and religion is religion. While you are doing your duty, you should do your duty and not mix religion in it. Why break the rule just because some one did not observe religious harmony and badmouth Christianity?
On a Facebook page, some friend of mine posted two religious quotes side by side. One is based on Old Testament (Joshua 6:21) total destruction of a city another portray his religion as a peaceful religion ( i will not disclose the religion nor the quote). Obviously, he is trying to portray Christianity as violent and destructive compared to the peaceful nature of his religion.
Now I can defend Old Testament by saying that it is the act that is commanded by God for a specific purpose and reason at that specific time. It cannot be applied to Christianity in general. The quote is simply out of context. I will not venture into the person's religious quote and draw a different picture. By doing so I am in breach of causing hostility on other religion. The person is probably trying to provoke a hostile response.
By Just defending our Bible, I already achieved the purpose of defending our faith. There is no need to bring down the other part of the statement by the person. It served the purpose and still maintains religious harmony.
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