I was just watching the news on ABC a few minutes ago and saw a story about some idiotic, moronic, flat out unchristian pastor in Florida who is holding a "Burn the Koran" day on Sept 11th.
First...I guess he doesn't give a damn about the soldiers he just put into danger in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq, protests are already happening there, people are burning our flag and effiegies, and throwing things at our armored vehicles...rightly being upset that someone in our culture wants to defame their holy book, but wrongly taking it out on soldiers that probably want to strangle that stupid want to be holy man in Florida.
Second...we should not want to burn books. Period. It hearkens back to Hitler and his book burnings, and we all know how that turned out. And we should have enough maturity to let other faiths have their holy books, not have such a juvenile reaction.
Yes, a few bad muslims have attacked our country. Less than 100,000 muslims world wide are involved, by conservative estimates, in the jihad against us...and most of those are doing things like sheltering, supplying, not actively fighting. Considering there are over 1,000,0000,000+ muslims world wide, that's less than 0.01% that are our enemies. We have millions of good active faithful patriotic muslims in our country, and this jack ass pastor wants to call them evil, and deface their holy book.
What a great example of how not to be a Christian.
Where is his love? Where is his compassion? Where is his understanding? Because all he's spewing is hate filled drivel.
I don't know about you, but I'm scared of all the hateful talk filling out country right now...we're labeling a whole group of people as evil, we're demonizing them, and dehumanizing them. I'm waiting for some politician to start talking about putting people in concentration camps.
Wake up people...we're on the edge of madness. These are our neighbors, our friends, the people you shop with, their kids go to school with your kids. Why are we going down this road??
And the scary thing is, the rhetoric is growing on both sides...this pastor, a man named Terry Jones, has a fb page with 8,000 fans. And other anti burn the koran day pages are growing much faster. Hate speech is flying from christians, from muslims, bashing Christ, bashing Mohammed, driving wedges even deeper.
We need to stop this crap. If you are a Christian, not a blind follower of hate....then do what Christ wants you to do. Act in love...pray for the Muslims, and for Terry Jones, who is a lost soul as best I can tell. Tell the message of the Gospel in love and gentleness. You will not win anyone to Christ with hate speech and anger, you will only drive them further away. As far as Muslims, remember, the Koran teaches that Christians, Jews and Muslims are all people of the Book, and we are all to respect one another.
We are reaching near hysteria as a nation, and we all need to back down, and calm down. We do not need to be further torn apart as a nation. If you are a member of the Christian faith, act like it. Don't partake in this hate.
for a link to the story on abc: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/anti-islam-rhetoric-heats-ahead-911/story?id=11565884
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