Yeah, I don’t see the need to even say that
It should’ve been all about turning to God and praying for the lost, injured, missing, recovery and their families. As well as our “ leaders”
I partially agree. Carrying hate in our hearts is not healthy. We should kill terrorists and those who celebrate terrorism, all of them, but not let hatred or killing dominate our thinking. We need more dead terrorists, but that should be out of love for the innocent, not hatred for the guilty.
When Jesus told his followers: "Let the one who has no sword sell his cloak and buy one" . . . And they said, Lord, behold, here are two swords. And he said unto them, It is enough, that carries two messages. 1. It is not merely okay but actually mandatory to take up arms in self defense. 2. We should not allow weaponry and the corresponding use of force to become the center of our lives.
The Bible means Christian love, not sentimental love, but that concept has gotten all blurry in the minds of many, including pastors.
Our UMC assistant pastor quickly arranged for the youth group to visit the mosque in DC, where of course they prayed the shahada for coversion over the kids in Arabic, so they didn't know what was being done to them. Disgraceful.
He had earlier refused our prayer group permission to use the copier to run off programs for our open-to-the-community prayer commemoration the night of 9/12, in spite of the fact that it brought almost 100 new people into our church that night, so many that we ran out of programs. Liberal much? I left the UMC soon after.