SEE HERE The son of Billy Graham was disinvited from a military prayer breakfast/service because he has in the past described Islam as evil. The Army terms his past remarks "inappropriate" but a more fundamental question is whether or not they are true. The history of Islam is disturbing. It is a religion that grew by the sword, spread by the sword and has not renounced the use of the sword. It is intolerant of religions other than itself (don't start the song and dance about how it accepts the other 'peoples of the book' because it only accepts them as subjects and discriminates against them). I suppose it is no more evil than man himself, fallen and misshapen by original sin and subjection to the appetites. But we are called to be more. As we look around it seems as if much of the violence in the world emerges from the Islamic world. That at least can be reliably called "evil."
Friday, April 23, 2010
The Truth Will Set You Free
SEE HERE The son of Billy Graham was disinvited from a military prayer breakfast/service because he has in the past described Islam as evil. The Army terms his past remarks "inappropriate" but a more fundamental question is whether or not they are true. The history of Islam is disturbing. It is a religion that grew by the sword, spread by the sword and has not renounced the use of the sword. It is intolerant of religions other than itself (don't start the song and dance about how it accepts the other 'peoples of the book' because it only accepts them as subjects and discriminates against them). I suppose it is no more evil than man himself, fallen and misshapen by original sin and subjection to the appetites. But we are called to be more. As we look around it seems as if much of the violence in the world emerges from the Islamic world. That at least can be reliably called "evil."
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