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Thursday, September 23, 2004
Reaching the end
We can put up with a lot. We brush off the casual comment; we tolerate aggressive drivers; we even wait patiently in line at the DMV.
But we can be pushed. When the World Trade Center was bombed in '93, we, the reasonable people said, "Those nuts! Catch them and put them in jail." There was no war- there were only kooks.
After the USS Cole was attacked, we looked to the US government and said, "you really need to do something about these nuts."
When they killed 3000 innocent people on 9/11, we said, "Hunt down those who did this and those who support them, and bring them to justice." Whatever that means.
Recently, we see that they seek to destroy us, one by one, if necessary. Americans are slowly coming to realize that Moderate Muslims are few and far between, if they exist at all. Justice is no longer enough.
Now, they revel in their evil. They are actually selling dvds of the beheadings at an open air market in Bagdhad. Bagdhad! The capitol of the country we're trying to liberate. This is insane. If anyone still sat on the fence about Islam, this should do it for them. The things that perpetrate these acts of evil are not fit to be called human. They are animals. Rabid animals who do nothing but infect others with their filth and spread their vileness. And rabid animals should be put down.
Before anyone gets on me for being unChristian about this, let me set the record straight on my opinion. Every person is born in the image and likeness of God. But these souls have been corrupted by an evil so intense that, in my opinion, it comes from Satan himself. There is no peace, no light, no love in their lives- there is only hatred and violence. Romans 12:9 says "Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good." I realize that, later in that chapter, it also says that we are not to take revenge, but leave room for God's wrath. But in the next chapter, it states "For he is God's servant to do you good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword for nothing. He is God's servant, an agent of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer." (and if you want to argue that Paul is talking about the police, let me remind you that we are a big part of the police force in Iraq right now.)
As I've said in previous posts, it is the job of the righteous to stand between evil and innocence.
And we are the righteous.
But we can be pushed. When the World Trade Center was bombed in '93, we, the reasonable people said, "Those nuts! Catch them and put them in jail." There was no war- there were only kooks.
After the USS Cole was attacked, we looked to the US government and said, "you really need to do something about these nuts."
When they killed 3000 innocent people on 9/11, we said, "Hunt down those who did this and those who support them, and bring them to justice." Whatever that means.
Recently, we see that they seek to destroy us, one by one, if necessary. Americans are slowly coming to realize that Moderate Muslims are few and far between, if they exist at all. Justice is no longer enough.
Now, they revel in their evil. They are actually selling dvds of the beheadings at an open air market in Bagdhad. Bagdhad! The capitol of the country we're trying to liberate. This is insane. If anyone still sat on the fence about Islam, this should do it for them. The things that perpetrate these acts of evil are not fit to be called human. They are animals. Rabid animals who do nothing but infect others with their filth and spread their vileness. And rabid animals should be put down.
Before anyone gets on me for being unChristian about this, let me set the record straight on my opinion. Every person is born in the image and likeness of God. But these souls have been corrupted by an evil so intense that, in my opinion, it comes from Satan himself. There is no peace, no light, no love in their lives- there is only hatred and violence. Romans 12:9 says "Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good." I realize that, later in that chapter, it also says that we are not to take revenge, but leave room for God's wrath. But in the next chapter, it states "For he is God's servant to do you good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword for nothing. He is God's servant, an agent of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer." (and if you want to argue that Paul is talking about the police, let me remind you that we are a big part of the police force in Iraq right now.)
As I've said in previous posts, it is the job of the righteous to stand between evil and innocence.
And we are the righteous.
