Posted on 08/03/2006 9:48:15 AM PDT by SirLinksalot
But how is it that he, like so many others, fails to notice that world events in the last few years—even decades—have had as their main catalyst tens of thousands of evangelical Christians with a "messianic" mentality who believe that apocalyptic destruction of all but their beloved Israel will be "a precursor to global salvation"?
If a Christian President were to threaten to annihilate the world with nuclear weapons in order to bring about the return of Christ, his point might be a valid one. Until that happens, it isn't.
Ask them whether weapons of any kind are in safe hands in any bloodthirsty human hands. And if they were not bloodthirsty, why would they have them? Why would anyone have them?
Wait - so any country that has weapons is "bloodthirsty"? How ridiculous! We live in an evil world, and arming yourself is simply common sense. Is Hezbollah "bloodthirsty" because they have weapons? He doesn't say.
And how dare they, since the said state has only been acting as an aggressor and racist colonial state with neighbor-exterminating tendencies from the moment of its inception?
Give me a break - the Arab nations attacked Israel at the instant of its inception as a state. The Arab states hate Israel because they are Jews and occupy the "holy land" of Islam. Israel, if they could, would live at peace with their Arab neighbors.
Hezbollah, which has done the inadmissible of taking a unilateral war decision without consulting the Lebanese government of which it is part...
I am no expert, but I doubt that this is any different than how any terrorist group would behave if they lived under a democracy.
I hope they rethink that policy, because not only is it dishonoring to God, in the long term it is culturally (and maybe even physically) suicidal, as the more Muslims surround the Christians the more precarious their position comes.
Bumping this thread for future reference.
The author needs to look in the mirror -
Hezbollah has been holding Christians in Lebanon at gunpoint, preventing them from leaving and becoming targets AFTER Hezbollah has used their homes / property to attack Israel.
Hezbollah is threatening Christian areas to the north if they get their clocks cleaned too badly in the south.
Lebanon (meaning also Christian of the ilk of the author) has allowed a terrorist organization to co-opt most of their nation, based upon an ideology that would have them killed in a moments notice.
Finally, Israel didn't start this fight.
Now, what part of this immoral behavior by Israel don't I get?
I have had contact with Lebanese Christians for about ten years, and I have felt that my Lebanese Christian friends have picked up some Islamic ideas and thoughts, so I believe that we should pray for them. I have not met one Lebanese Christian that believes in the ten commandments, and the laws or commandments is what makes the difference between the Allah of the Koran, and Jehovah or Yaweh God of the bible. They are just not the same.
What does he think Israel should have done? Sat down and parleyed with them?
I agree on prayer. However, when an individual in his position takes up his soap box and writes what he did, he deserves the criticism he recieves.
If they are, indeed, Christian, perhaps turning to Christ might be in order...
the infowarrior
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