[TomSmedley]

We are engaged in a war with Islam that will last for centuries. The question is whether America is better prepared to survive than civilizations that preceded her. If not, we will go the way of the Eastern Romans when they fell to the Ottomans in 1453.

I grew up under the shadow of "The Bomb," in an era when "the smart people" sought prophylactic accommodations with the obvious fated winners in the cold war, the Soviets. Then, in a miracle of divine intervention, the red threat suddenly imploded.

I am praying for a similar dramatic end to the Islamic threat -- but am fully aware that America's official governing ideology, secular humanism, is equally an enemy of the Lord Jesus Christ, and equally due for an appointment with destiny.

Meanwhile, I know one lady who's studying Farsi, and a guy studying Turkish, with missionary aspirations.

[Biggirl]

"Meanwhile, I know one lady who's studying Farsi, and a guy studying Turkish, with missionary aspirations."

Those two folks are smart, knowing that the Christian faith is growing faster, if not faster then Islam and knows also that the Lord is coming back soon, once the Gospel goes out to all the nations.