Terry Jones is chasing publicity on this issue.
My word, my family is MUCH bigger than his church.
Burning the Koran helps no one and nothing.
If General Pratraeus is concerned about it, I think we ought to back him up.
This is all just a promotion for the guy’s book and merchandise available at his website.
I agree. In counterinsurgency you do everything you can to win hearts and minds to choose your side over the insurgents.
This guy is being deliberately offensive, which isn't a very Christian thing to do regardless of what you think about Islam.
Exactly, though I'm sure the MSM and the dems appreciate the opportunity to paint the right as being book-burning loons, just in time for the election.
Burning Korans isn't how Americans usually behave, but some seem to think "Well THEY're mean to US!" is some justification for behaving the way the barbarians do.
Yes, yes, ...I understand now what we must do.
When Islamic terrorists bomb public places in locations they perceive as Christian, we must excuse them and then allow them to represent their actions as military victories when they proceed to build mosques in those very locations where American citizens were slaughtered.
If there is any opposition to their advance, it will be met with appeals to respect of their rights of free speech and freedom of their religion, albeit foreign to the protocols to worship God, upon which the separation of Church and State had historically presumed.
Meanwhile, if other Americans use the very same freedoms advocated by the adversaries as justifying their liberty to perform such actions, we must instead restrain ourselves from any such actions as it might be perceived as foreign to the intent of our adversaries.
Now that we leave their homelands, where those who aided and abetted the same cultic ideologies, which fomented the unprovoked attack upon innocent civilians in America, we are to unilaterally invoke Sharia law within our own borders in addition to removing our military forces from their homelands. /s
Petraeus manifests numerous faults, if these reports are true.
1) There is only one God.
He has provided for all mankind, and when that provision is rejected, those who reject Him, have already chosen the side of their allegiance.
Petraeus has no love for God. He rejects Christ and everything Christ performed on the Cross.
He fails to recognize the Son. He honors instead those who attack God’s Plan.
Petraeus seeks to seize the temporary, which he cannot hold, and rejects the eternal provided to him without any cost to him.
Even though this is heinous, God also foresaw each and every one of these sins and they have already been judged on the Cross, after they had been imputed upon Christ, who bore the judgment of God the Father of these heinous sins.
Nevertheless, each human after Adam, who has been born condemned, still lives prior to the first death, also manifests God has a Plan in which they also may perform something good, but only through faith in Him.
Accordingly, Petraeus is no worse than the most heinous criminal sitting on death row awaiting a capital punishment, nor no worse than Adolph Hitler in slaughtering millions in a Holocaust, but Petraeus is simply no better millions of people who daily reject everything a loving God has offered them, in preference to advocating their own godless immoral perverted protocols to find their personal happiness completely independent of God.
2. Petraeus further fails to honorably represent the office upon which he has been placed, by dishonoring those who seek to use the exact same freedoms of religion and speech, interpreted by agnostics, atheists and pagans who have misrepresented the legal foundations of those freedoms, and instead appeals to Americans to reject their Constitutionally established rights, in favor of appeasing those whom he has been tasked to oppose.
The Mosque being built at the WTC Ground Zero site symbolizes a victory of Islam over anything other than Islam. It completes the 9-11 assault. It is being granted, based ONLY upon the preference of the OBAMA Administration to qualify it must be allowed based upon our freedom of religion and freedom of speech.
That very same freedom of religion and freedom of speech is being used by those who worship God by God’s protocols, and express their revulsion of those who reject God’s Word by burning the blasphemous writings of the adversarial Koran.
Even those who live by national governance, and not prior by God’s Law, must allow the freedom of those who seek to worship God by His Law and by respecting both the laws of God and of Man in the State. Yet, these are the targets of Petraeus, instead of those within his theater of concern.
3) I suspect if Petraeus had a junior officer who had recommended such actions in opposition to his policies, he would label him a coward. Of course, this assumes Petraeus possesses the virtue of an O-1 in fellowship with God, without any seasoned military experience, and void of ethical cognizance.
If the Commander-in-Chief had any intestinal fortitude, he would immediately relieve Petraeus for conduct unbecoming and officer and not tolerate any officer in his ranks who condoned such a position.
Instead, I suspect our present CIC would more willingly enter into homosexual lust than ever return to God on God’s terms.
History will document how woefully ill equiped and arrogant the present US leadership has allowed itself to become, primarily because they have rejected God and what He has provided.