Muslims Demand “Bigoted” Church Sign Removal, Pastor Has Perfect Reply

Expecting the peaceful pastor to cave, they were shocked and enraged when he not only refused to remove it, but offered the perfect response.

Belmont Drive Missionary Baptist Church in Oregon has caused a disturbing stir in self-important hypocrites who believe that Islam is a supreme religion that should never be criticized. The church in Hood River has caused the thought police to sound the alarm on bigotry, proving their own intolerance.

WSBT rushed to the scene of a political correctness crime, in which the Baptist church displayed a message on their sign declaring, “Wake up Christians. Allah is not our God. Muhammad not greater than Jesus.” Likewise, the other side reads, “Only the Bible is God’s word. ‘Holy book.’ Koran is just another book.”

Hood River resident Eric Cohn was nearly in tears over the church stating what God has already stated in the Bible, saying that his feelings were hurt when he looked at the message board.

“I literally had to stop and back up and make sure I saw what I saw, and I was profoundly offended and upset by it,” Eric Cohn said.

Cohn wasn’t the only one wishing that the U.S. would outlaw free speech. Hood River Mayor Paul Blackburn allowed his feelings to get the best of his logic, and he most likely hopes to use his political platform to do away with said pesky freedom.

“I was really annoyed and sad,” Hood River mayor, Paul Blackburn, said. “I am annoyed that in this political season there’s a solid case of ugly going on. I think it norms up this kind of behavior like ‘oh, it’s okay to be a bigot now.'”

Judaism was popular and thriving at the time of Jesus, with many converts throughout the Roman Empire.
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You said upthread that Judaism is not a proselytizing religion. Even today, with a much larger sympathetic populace, converts are paltry.

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Judaism survived, though, not because of, but in spite of Christianity.
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One could say that Christianity survived not because of Christianity but in spite of it. Jesus was Jewish, after all, as were all of the apostles.

Pogroms are not exclusively Christian territory; I don’t have to tell you that Jews had been persecuted long before 2,000 years ago, and subsequent persecution was due to the pagan beliefs of the ignorant (and/or evil).

I have no doubt that Judaism would have been wiped totally from the face of the Earth had Jesus not appeared when and where He did. Josephus’s account of the times tells how much true hatred there was for Jews in Imperial Rome.

God, in the face of the most devastating world empire, kept His promise to the Hebrews via Jesus. Because of their survival, we witness God’s commitment to His Chosen People.

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The corpus of Judaism’s sacrosanct written works and the equally important oral tradition of Jewish law and learning and traditions survived the destruction in the Second Temple in Jerusalem in the year 70 of the common era because a small group of leaders/scholars were given permission to move their learning apparatus
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Permission by whom? Once again, you sound like you have sympathy for the enemy.

The Roman destruction of Herod’s temple was not a friendly relocation.

The Zealots weren’t formed to negotiate and drink wine with Roman officials.

Emperor Hadrian wasn’t a happy-go-lucky go-along-to-get-along kind of guy.

To paint those times as a lackadaisical period that Jews could just skip along the road singing praises to Moses is naive at best.

Re: “Getting permission” for some to go to Yavnah:

By the skin of their teeth a core of Jewish teachers/scholars were able to get permission from the Romans for a small group to go and establish an outpost at Yavneh.

I believe that Judaism should proselytize in our era. Traditional Judaism has a tremendous amount to offer both spiritually and intellectually. I have a good number of friends, acquaintances and others I’ve met on several continents who were devout Protestants, Catholics, Mormons, Baptists, Hispanic families, some of whom realized their families had been Conversos for 500 years (and some who came to Judaism through intellect and faith), a Seventh Day Adventist minister and his Seventh Day Adventist wife and family - all, who, through their seeking and God’s opening their eyes and through serious thinking and life’s experience led them to convert to Judaism, often first via the more liberal clergy and then, as they learned more and realized they were not being taught enough, through orthodox conversion. Judaism seriously discourages people who approach a rabbi, saying they want to convert to Judaism. These people have to be turned away over the course of years three or more times because they are reconsidered for the multiyear one on one learning and living according to Jewish practice and actual formal testing that must happen before an outside rabbinic panel before they are accepted as legitimate Jews.

To convert to many Christian sects, it takes faith that one’s pronouncement of faith will guarantee salvation. That seems for a heck a lot of people, then and now, a much, much easier, understandable and immediate “fix.” Most people have not been exposed to the richness of classic Judaism as an alternative.

Those of us who live in the West are fortunate to live in countries that allow us our choice of roads to the Almighty’s wisdom and grace. Thank God for our religious freedom. Thank God that Jehovah’s Witnesses have the right to badger the rest of us and that we have the right to explain to them our religious beliefs and our appreciation that we can say, “’Thanks, but no thanks.”

What is approaching on the horizon for Christians and Jews is ominous. Jews and Christians today have much, much more in common than they do different and should actively be supporting each other in the struggle to be able to practice our religions in safety.

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