God's Will
“Whatever you give away before death for the Lord's sake you give because you cannot take it with you.” Saint Lucia, 304 A.D.
There’s a crazy pastor in Gainesville, Fla., (and there’s no other word for the insanity he has in mind), who’s planning to burn the Koran on Sept. 11th. He’s told Rev. John Rankin (you can read the post on Fox News ( Rev. Jones ) that burning the Koran is “God’s will”, that God told him to do it.
Since Jesus came, God’s will has never been destructive. Jesus gained us God’s forgiveness for our sins. At least, He doesn’t want US to be destructive. Whatever chaos and mayhem is to be done, He wants us to leave it to Him. You might as well say that Sept. 11th was “God’s will.” I don’t believe it was; I believe God looked down on the World Trade Center, and the Pentagon, and Flight 93 and felt only sorrow and pity.
Building that Victory Mosque two blocks from Ground Zero is wrong. It’s a dishonor to those who died or were injured on 9/11, an affront to the surviving families, an act of defiance towards America, and sure sign of encouragement to terrorists around the world that they have succeeded.
We have a duty to protest this building, at least in this location, in a building damaged on Sept. 11th. We have a duty to censure those who gave the owners permission to build it and insist that they rescind the permit. We also have a duty to forebear from committing violence against it or those who choose to worship in it.
If Jesus were here in the flesh (my Christian tell me he is, indeed, alive in the spirit, that He never died), He’d walk into that mosque and peacefully convert its occupants. We’re not Jesus. We’re imperfect, flesh and blood human beings whom the Muslims will never be persuaded by, particularly if we go around bombing their mosques and burning their holy book, as Rev. Jones says in his column.
We do have a duty, though, to refute their claims of peacefulness and respect for other religions. The newspapers and the Media, history itself, are full of contradictory reports. Everywhere they’ve settled, the violent have followed them and forced the conversion, death, taxation, or flight of the subject population.
Ground Zero is the best evidence of that intention, here in America. That’s why I was always in favor of the Ground Zero reflecting pools. Rebuilding the Towers would be to whitewash what they did and that would be a mistake.
By the law, we can’t stop them from building that Victory Mosque, though Community Board One, the Landmarks Preservation Commission, and the City could have but didn’t. They can’t stop us, on the other hand, from peacefully protesting what they’re doing.
For our peaceful protests, we’re being called “haters” and “Islamophobes”. Islamophobes? Well, there’s good reason to fear them. There’s no good reason to commit violence, though. I don’t think Jesus would want us to do that. Not that I’m any great expert on Jesus. I’m just a common sinner, myself.
I do think He would expect us to resist their attempts to subjugate us, whether by overpopulating us or blowing up our building. The kind of resistance I suspect He would have in mind to peacefully refuse and refute their doctrine at their peril of our own sacrifice. Let the blood be on their hands, not ours.
That kind of sacrifice takes courage. Courage to refuse to pay their dhimmi (taxes) as the price of remaining Christians, to stand our ground here in America (really, where else is there left to go?), and to defy their threats of imprisonment, injury, and death. Saint Lucia had her eyes put out for refusing to deny her faith.
She consecrated her virginity to God, refused to marry a pagan, and had her dowry distributed to the poor. Hearing that she’d given away her dowry (her payment to him to marry her), her would-be husband denounced her as a Christian to the governor of Syracuse, Sicily.
She was ordered to burn a sacrifice to the Roman emperor’s image; she refused. Unable to physically move her (even using a team of oxen, according to legend) or burn her, the guards gouged out her eyes with a fork prior to her execution. She is considered the Patron Saint of the Blind.
We know that the Muslims are blind (at least the Radicals are), though they would deny and take offense at such a suggestion. We know for certain that the Liberals are blind. Anyone who thinks acts of violence are the answer to the Muslim invasion is blind. This Gainesville, Fla., is amazingly blind for a preacher of the Gospel.
Even a sinner like myself knows that. Another infamous Rev. Jones urged his followers to suicide, a needless self-sacrifice that amounted to murder. Burning the Koran is an irresponsible act that will only inflame the unhinged radicals on their side, and lead what will surely amount to an act of unnecessary suicide on the part of many innocent Americans.
Courage, not violence, is the answer.
There’s a crazy pastor in Gainesville, Fla., (and there’s no other word for the insanity he has in mind), who’s planning to burn the Koran on Sept. 11th. He’s told Rev. John Rankin (you can read the post on Fox News ( Rev. Jones ) that burning the Koran is “God’s will”, that God told him to do it.
Since Jesus came, God’s will has never been destructive. Jesus gained us God’s forgiveness for our sins. At least, He doesn’t want US to be destructive. Whatever chaos and mayhem is to be done, He wants us to leave it to Him. You might as well say that Sept. 11th was “God’s will.” I don’t believe it was; I believe God looked down on the World Trade Center, and the Pentagon, and Flight 93 and felt only sorrow and pity.
Building that Victory Mosque two blocks from Ground Zero is wrong. It’s a dishonor to those who died or were injured on 9/11, an affront to the surviving families, an act of defiance towards America, and sure sign of encouragement to terrorists around the world that they have succeeded.
We have a duty to protest this building, at least in this location, in a building damaged on Sept. 11th. We have a duty to censure those who gave the owners permission to build it and insist that they rescind the permit. We also have a duty to forebear from committing violence against it or those who choose to worship in it.
If Jesus were here in the flesh (my Christian tell me he is, indeed, alive in the spirit, that He never died), He’d walk into that mosque and peacefully convert its occupants. We’re not Jesus. We’re imperfect, flesh and blood human beings whom the Muslims will never be persuaded by, particularly if we go around bombing their mosques and burning their holy book, as Rev. Jones says in his column.
We do have a duty, though, to refute their claims of peacefulness and respect for other religions. The newspapers and the Media, history itself, are full of contradictory reports. Everywhere they’ve settled, the violent have followed them and forced the conversion, death, taxation, or flight of the subject population.
Ground Zero is the best evidence of that intention, here in America. That’s why I was always in favor of the Ground Zero reflecting pools. Rebuilding the Towers would be to whitewash what they did and that would be a mistake.
By the law, we can’t stop them from building that Victory Mosque, though Community Board One, the Landmarks Preservation Commission, and the City could have but didn’t. They can’t stop us, on the other hand, from peacefully protesting what they’re doing.
For our peaceful protests, we’re being called “haters” and “Islamophobes”. Islamophobes? Well, there’s good reason to fear them. There’s no good reason to commit violence, though. I don’t think Jesus would want us to do that. Not that I’m any great expert on Jesus. I’m just a common sinner, myself.
I do think He would expect us to resist their attempts to subjugate us, whether by overpopulating us or blowing up our building. The kind of resistance I suspect He would have in mind to peacefully refuse and refute their doctrine at their peril of our own sacrifice. Let the blood be on their hands, not ours.
That kind of sacrifice takes courage. Courage to refuse to pay their dhimmi (taxes) as the price of remaining Christians, to stand our ground here in America (really, where else is there left to go?), and to defy their threats of imprisonment, injury, and death. Saint Lucia had her eyes put out for refusing to deny her faith.
She consecrated her virginity to God, refused to marry a pagan, and had her dowry distributed to the poor. Hearing that she’d given away her dowry (her payment to him to marry her), her would-be husband denounced her as a Christian to the governor of Syracuse, Sicily.
She was ordered to burn a sacrifice to the Roman emperor’s image; she refused. Unable to physically move her (even using a team of oxen, according to legend) or burn her, the guards gouged out her eyes with a fork prior to her execution. She is considered the Patron Saint of the Blind.
We know that the Muslims are blind (at least the Radicals are), though they would deny and take offense at such a suggestion. We know for certain that the Liberals are blind. Anyone who thinks acts of violence are the answer to the Muslim invasion is blind. This Gainesville, Fla., is amazingly blind for a preacher of the Gospel.
Even a sinner like myself knows that. Another infamous Rev. Jones urged his followers to suicide, a needless self-sacrifice that amounted to murder. Burning the Koran is an irresponsible act that will only inflame the unhinged radicals on their side, and lead what will surely amount to an act of unnecessary suicide on the part of many innocent Americans.
Courage, not violence, is the answer.
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