As Christian people and nations, let us never forget that the message of love, forgiveness and hope is not reflected in other faiths in quite the same way, and certainly not by the Islamic religion. The evidence of the differences are clearly seen on many occasions, but for the USA and the UK, particularly on these dates.
Some apologists would have us distinguish between those who have been radicalised, and the ordinary peaceful Muslims, and we must be careful how we speak because the Christian voice is the one which is labelled as racist and intolerant, and that is in spite of the clear evidence to the contrary. Can we please be done with this media misinterpretation and injustice now?
Whatever label you want to put on the people who carried out these, and almost every terrorist act, they are Muslims. They read and study the same Quran. They revere the name of their prophet, and venerate their false god. They all want Sharia Law. They all believe in an Islamic world state. Meanwhile we seem to have conveniently forgotten who the real enemy of religious freedom is, and it is clearly not Christianity. I think it is time we stopped putting ourselves down and making excuses for the guilty. After all, we already have been given the truth.
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Ephesians 6:12
But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them – bringing swift destruction on themselves. 2 Peter 2:1
Now that we know this, how did Jesus say we should react? No one said it would be easy, but this is the way of Christian love, and love conquers all, as we also read in 1 Corinthians 13.
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbour and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. Matthew 5:43-45
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