More headlines… “Hundreds of Muslims protesting caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad tried to storm the U.S. Embassy on Sunday, smashing the windows of a guard post but failing to push through the gates. Several people were injured.”
I think we can all figure out that this has very little to do with religion but has everything to do with a hatred for the West. All through history, people have cloaked their hatreds in various religions to give them some sort of respectability. In their own eyes of course. And we wonder why God would weep?
Hi Steve, I've been quite sick and unable to keep up on your projections.
ReplyDeleteI would argue that the violence we are seeing is directly in line with Muhammadism or atleast the orthodox version of it. A history of Islam shows that it has been spread by violence. Christianity is more of libertarianism, we are judged according to the law in the afterlife. Islam calls for immediate judgement by Koran (the people readiing it).
Islam just doesn't hate the West. Just ask the Eastern, Palestianian, and Coptic Christians.
I think that there are elements in this country that by their culture and influence on it, project the image that we are Godless, sex obessed despots.
Pray for the Christians that are being martyred in Nigeria. Kyrie eleison!
Sorry to hear that...you feeling any better?
ReplyDeleteAs far as violence goes...no religion has a monopoly on it. Christianity has certainly been guilty of it.
But I believe that Christ lives in "us", not in a "religion" or a nation.
The difference between Christianity is that it is not orthodox to force or compel people to faith (which it can't). Islam on the otherhand has forced people into a rite which has become a tradition carried on and on by force and fear. Islam fears ideas, freedom, etc.
ReplyDeleteGod lives in us as we are temples of the Holy Spirit, he is in us as individuals and as his church. We are invited to partake in Christ and the grace he extends through the Eucharist.