I say this to you in all love and respect, (and i mean that as Christ is my witness)
Brother it seems to me you are wrapped up in fear, and it's bleeding into your rhetoric:
these people are living next door to us. it's time for us christians to take our country back.
first, "these people"? What do you mean? Of course....all sorts of ethnicities of folks live "next door" to us, we're a nation of immigrants, why do you think we are a great nation? "Give me your tired"......my folks, whether they were poor Boheminian coal miners, one of whom became the mayor of Chicago with a grade school education, or another side of my family, a stout Jewish woman baker from Poland who funneled over her children one at a time, as her meager resources permitted were all immigrants, and they worked hard, they built things, or became leaders, and they were ALL immigrants.
Quite frankly, I get very [i]concerned[/i] when I hear believers talking about "christians taking our country back". That kind of rhetoric fueled the most ugly pogroms and inquisitions the world has ever seen, which is precisely the reason the framers of the Constitution and the judiciary has consistently reiterated that freedom of religion is one of the pillars of freedom that make us great, make us the envy of the world.
Don't fear, if God is for us, who can be against us?
Mohammad was a rapist and a pediphile. He was a devil worshiping pagan that used terror to build his devil possessed, God hating, murderous, perverted religion.
let me ask you this; do you really believe with that invective type of rhetoric you will win one muslim to Christ?
My barber is a secular muslim from Beirut, and he knows precisely that I am a Jew who is a follower of Jesus, and we have a deep friendship, because in my spirit I made the vow that I'm just gonna love him, and that when he looks in my eyes, he will SEE the Love of Christ, and he does. I want him to envy the peace of God that has come upon me.
If i start a dialogue with him, that would include a diatribe about Mohhamed being a "rapist pedophile", I lose him, and if I start to fuss about him "cutting my throat", I'm living in fear and that is the opposite of faith.
I'm not gonna do that, I don't know how long I have to live, and I'm not concerned about that, all I care about is that when I look upon the Lord, He says, "well done, thy good and faithful servant".
As far as the war is concerned, national leadership is doing the right thing, in my opinion, by framing it as a war against "islamic fascism", thats what it is. But don't fall into the trap of thinking that its going awry, quite to the contrary, the war in Iraq is going precisely as planned.
Sunni kills Shi'a, Shi'a kills Sunni, and the Salafi (thats Wahabbi's) plot and plan their terrorist schemes. Secondly, every grade B jihadist is being drawn into the fight in Iraq, instead of having their attentions focused elsewhere. Meanwhile we now possess two strategically excellent staging posts for the coming war against Iran, and THAT is where the dark heart of islamo-fascism lays, in the cities of Tehran and Qom ,Iran. We have projected force into both Afghanistan and Iraq, and now we will work the diplomatic route to build a multilateral consensus to defeat these fascists, cause thats all they are.Once we exhaust the diplomatic route, because the mullahs in Iran believe that they can construct a arc of fundamentalistic islamic regimes stretching from Morrocco to Indonesia, hence I doubt diplomacy will work, but we have to give it a chance. Once that phase fails, we go to war agaisnt the islamic republic of iran. They are fascists, Hitler's with religion, and they will be defeated.
My past paragraphs have been discussing the things of the world, Caesar's stuff, and I beg your forgiveness, but I believe from my heart, that in the U.S. we must not be hasty in marginalizing the islamic community, or breathing out a rhetoric of fear and invective religious discourse.
Don't think for instant that the U.S. intelligence community DOESN'T have a bead on jihadists cells within the U.S. Our intelligence community has resources that boggle the imagination.
remember this, throughout the middle east, they don't manufacture light bulbs, they make IED's, they don't teach geologists, they indoctrinate shaheed, martyrs.
God is exposing all of this, I just pray that men, in their fear, don't disrail His plans.
Please, in Jesus' Name, I ask you, be careful of your rhetoric, words breathed in fear can be like gasoline poured on a fire.
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with Jesus' love, bartle