Politics and religion mixed at a Focus on the Family Congressional forum Monday… Five Republicans and one Democrat seeking the open 5th Congressional District seat fielding questions on abortion, campaign integrity and the war in Iraq…
Bentley Rayburn spoke of opening Iraq to the word of Jesus… Rayburn, a retired Air Force major general, framed several answers in terms of what “we as Christians†would do. As he has throughout the campaign, he described the war in Iraq as a battle against radical Islam and said establishing a democracy in Iraq would send a message.
“That will open up hope within these countries for the gospel of Jesus Christ to change hearts,†he said. (from The Gazette)
this is rather unnerving… it harkens back to the Crusades and that sort of mentality which stated that in order to “evangelize” we must first destroy their culture and make them submit to our “superior” way of life and then they’ll understand the gospel of Jesus and their hearts will be changed. sounds rather terroristic to me… just replace a few words from the above statement and see it from the other side:
Bentley Rayburn spoke of opening the United States to the word of Mohammad… Rayburn, a retired Air Force major general, framed several answers in terms of what “we as Muslims†would do. As he has throughout the campaign, he described the war in the US as a battle against radical Christianity and said establishing an Islamic State in the US would send a message.
“That will open up hope within these countries for the message of the Koran to change hearts.”
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- axis of evil.
- Well, at least it lasted for a day!
- gender jihad
It’s not very comfortable when we look at things from the other side, is it?
How did we ever go from desiring to be salt and light and leaven to desiring to be the ones in power, setting the agenda, and basically running the world?
God help us…