Quoting some guy..
..revival (People turning to salvation..christianity) won't come thro u beggin n pleading n stressing everyone out..it will come by u going out n doing what God sent u to do..if u catch on fire for God..people will run over themselves coming to see u burn..wanting to know ur God..quit tripping n jus obey!!

if half the custodians of Christ's teaching just obeyed those teachings..i really doubt so much evil,division and intolerance would exist..

if u went out and raised a guy from the dead..or healed a cripple..trust me..even the alshabab will want your God..

ProverB you make some irrefutable point there. I dont know if you realised. The part I have highlighted.

With so many churches, preachers and proliferation of 'christian' drama in our televisions, so many people getting 'saved', so many miracles being witnessed, why is there still so much evil in this world? Surely there is a disconnect somewhere in this mix.

Surely we ought to be seeing less of corruption, murders, rapes and pedophilia, hatred - ethnic or otherwise and so on. But we see quite the opposite!

So either,

1. Jesus is powerless or
2. The readily available Jesus that is being peddled by all and sundry is not really Jesus.

I concur. Religious intolerance is not about criticism but forcing others to your religion. If your god is God, he doesn't need you to attack others on his behalf.

if i may discourse from the fore going, when talking matters god, some argue that man created god out of convinience and not the other way round, consider this notion in relation 2 world leadership from ancient antiquity up to date, is there any credence to this line of thought given how leaders have always used god and religion as an ulterior means to their political ends