Jefferson's Bible |
Cut and paste. Long before Microsoft, man was fashioning his
own version of morals without the miracles, good without God. When Thomas
Jefferson didn’t agree with biblical “interpreters,” (Matthew, Mark, Luke and
John among them) he simply cut their words out and then painstakingly pasted
together the parts he agreed with. VoilĂ ! A Bible
he could believe in.
Seems the “cut” part is still a popular method of promoting
a philosophy or worldview today. A school district in Florida is under scrutiny
for having students recite Islamic
prayers and use textbooks that cover Islam in depth but that have “mistakenly”
left out the pages on Christianity and Judaism. This district is not alone.
All over the country Islam is being introduced in public schools as if it were
the latest fashionable thing for the enlightened to learn.
One Florida parent was upset. He wasn’t a religious man but
he didn’t think it was right his child should recite things like, “There is no
God but Allah and Muhammad is His prophet. I’m thinking there are a lot of people
who would agree. And I’m wondering if their (our) voices are being heard—outside
of steeple-belled building, that is.
Many sensitive souls don’t like harsh words and horrible
news stories. Who wants to read the horrific details of a popular
Saudi cleric who rapes, burns, and kills his five-year-old daughter and
gets released from jail by paying “blood money”? Who wants to think of what
happens to women who are captured by the radical Islamists that are free to rape
and torture their captives?
Who wants to think a religion we are embracing and promoting
in our cheery goodwill will of tolerance might really rip wide open the fabric
of freedoms and values we hold dear? But if we don’t unstick our heads from the
sand and look at and listen to what is spreading more rapidly and darkly than
an inky cloud from a multi-armed octopus, we will have no reason to cry,
“unfair!” when all we value is gone.
I don’t know which is the greater threat: Islam or our being
so politically correct, so tolerant, and all-embracing that we are as deceived as
that little boy whose face was so rapt with awe and delight that you’d think he
was looking at a great beautiful gift—instead of a caged man burning to
death.
Although not every Muslim is a terrorist, every terrorist so
far is a Muslim. Regardless of your political bent, or your avoidance of all
things political, don’t be deceived—Islam has a goal—convert the world or kill
the kill the infidel.
“You’re just one of those right-wing Christian
fundamentalist,” you say.
If believing in a God who Loves over Hates, who offers Life
over Death, who tells a husband to Love his wife and her to Respect him, who wants
me to Care for the orphan, the widow, the imprisoned and the lost--including the Muslim next door, instead of
Kill, Rape, treat women as property, Abandon and Torture, and slice off the heads of anyone who doesn't agree, then, yes. I am.
And I pray I wouldn't let fear silence my voice or the voices of all of us who enjoy the benefits and blessings of this country and the One who has blessed it so.
Arise, shine, for your
light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you. For behold
darkness shall cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples, but the Lord
will arise upon you…
One day.
Blessings friends, I don't really like writing hard words, but sometimes you have to do it regardless.
Marcia
Marcia:
ReplyDeleteI admire your courage to address this issue. You are on the right side. Be bold in your faith. God did not give us a spirit of timidity. Political Correctness, is as absurd as it sounds, and has worn itself out. Thank you for speaking up and speaking out. ~ Richard
Thanks Richard for your constant encouragement
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