Christ In Iraq
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Well, here is another reason that the DFL opposes the war... apparently, our defeat of Saddam has brought a watershed of new Christian churches. Man, do those liberals HATE that...
Anyway, this is a very uplifting story- despite its somewhat dire beginning...
[[ Pastor Ghassan Thomas was overjoyed on April 9, 2003, when coalition forces toppled Saddam Hussein. For four years, in the face of relentless persecution, he had operated an underground Christian church of about 50 members in the heart of Baghdad.
Saddam's police had tortured him repeatedly, Thomas says -- beating him, suspending him from a ceiling fan and attaching electrodes to his tongue. ]] (LINK to uplifting story)
God Bless this man...
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posted by kmg at 08:13
9 Comments:
He and his congregation will need prayers, big time. The "gentlemen" at Foggy Bottom have given the green light to the Iraqi government to use Islam as the basis for the new constitution. While I support Bush and the War, I am grieved to see that the US is supporting the construction of yet another Islamic nation, relegating people like Pastor Thomas and his flock to dhimmitude.
Someday I hope the West wakes up to the danger it's in and realizes that we are in a war between civilizations, and that many in Islam won't stop until death.
One of the main hadiths has Muhammad declaring that "Paradise is in the shade of swords."
Sorry to be pessimistic, here, but I don't see the new Iraqi constitutional process as a cause for celebrating.
Pomoze Bog.
Tsar Lazar
Civic:
Your point is well made. I am of the Orthodox Church, and so to me even Rome is, as one of our theologians put it, "the first protestant church." :)
However, I think there is less evil in even a distorted form of Christianity than in Islam. At least in a distorted Christianity, the Spirit has a greater chance of reaching the individual than in the truly Satanic mockery of the Body of Christ that is Islam.
Pomoze Bog.
Tsar Lazar
Civic/Cynthia/Morningstar-
I am a Catholic... proud and practicing. Having said that, I will add that I see all of Christianity as a family that once was, and will be again, together in the same house.
The sword of islam, unlike our "sword of truth", is a vengeful one that seeks to cut the non-muslim world to pieces.
Our only hope for the perpetuation of our lives and our faith is to stand up to this plague of a cult right now. Unless we stop the advance of radical islam, we and our children will never know peace- no matter which shoes we are shod with.
No equivocation. No half-ass efforts. No appeasement.
All the might we require for this task will spring from within our Christian hearts... our goal is righteous, our means are honorable... and that is enough.
It is tough for me to be objective here, because in the Orthodox world we have borne the brunt of Islamic invasion since the 600s. The Sword of Islam has killed and enslaved my people since they exploded out of Arabia after the death of the "prophet," and in the end the West did very little to help stop it.
Even today, in Eastern countries in many regions, my people are reduced to dhimmitude, their churches and monasteries despoiled and burned, and their God-given rights ignored by the Islamofacists. In some cases (namely Kosovo), the West actually collaborated in this persecution. Over 150 Serbian Orthodox churches and monasteries have been systematically destroyed by the Albanian Muslims in the last ten years, most of them dating to the Middle Ages. Two of our holiest sites are currently being threatened, with only KFOR troops preventing the practitioners of the "Religion of Peace" from destroying them.
So it's tough for me to think of other options, although I respect the Bishop of Rome very much. Christ bids us to turn the other cheek, although in this case I think we are involved in a just war with a Satanically-inspired foe which threatens our freedom, nay, our very survival.
Pomoze Bog.
Tsar Lazar
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" ... I think we are involved in a just war with a Satanically-inspired foe which threatens our freedom, nay, our very survival."
-It is an undeniable fact that we are, indeed, in such a war. The double peril of this war is that many in our own country are fighting against us.
And thus shall it be upon the Ishmaelites on the Day of Judgment.
Pomoze Bog.
Tsar Lazar
Yes, Civic...that is what the conflict between Judeo-Christianity and Islam is all about. Remember the Biblical prophecy in re Ishmael, in that his hand shall be against all men.
Sounds to me like God knew what the Ishmaelites would get up to in the future...
Pomoze Bog.
Tsar Lazar
Civic, one last bit of news:
Israeli Defense Industries just signed a $300 million deal to supply ammunition to US forces fighting in the Middle East.
Jews and Christians are brothers-in-arms fighting the infidel, and the Israelis know it, even if the American Left is clueless.
Pomoze Bog.
Tsar Lazar
Civic:
Webster's defines "infidel" as "One who does not believe in a certain religion." That's a lousy politically-correct definition, though. I would use, "One who is unfaithful to the revealed Truth of God."
Muhammad being a false prophet, by my definition (or even by Webster's) Muslims are infidels.
Pomoze Bog.
Tsar Lazar
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