METROPOLITAN MEMORIAL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH DESTROYED!!

Early this morning a radical sect of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) claimed responsibility for bombing Metropolitan Memorial, the church President Bush attends while in Washington D.C.

What do you think the response would be? Of course political and religious leaders from all over the nation would condemn the attackers and call for an investigation into this "terrorist"
action.

But would the Methodist church retaliate? Would the next headline involve an ELCA church being destroyed by Presbyterians in support of their "Methodist brothers"?

Last week's bombing and the subsequent violence in Iraq got me to thinking about these things. Would the various "Christian" faiths in today's world take up arms against one another?

I was raised a Methodist but left that church in 2000 after they decided some sins were more acceptable than others. Eventually I found my home in the Baptist faith but I still have quite a
few friends and a great number of brothers in Christ that continue to attend Methodist churches.

I also know several Lutherans, Presbyterians, AOG, Seventh Day, Catholics and others whom I will meet again in Heaven where we will sing praises to God in the best worship service ever!

The words from a song come to mind as I type this - "They will know we are Christians by our love...". Those words are intentional - that is they don't read "They will know we are
<insert denomination here> by our love".

As I live my daily life and forge bonds with the people I encounter, the best I can do is demonstrate Christ's love for them in my words and my actions. By so doing I give them a
reason to ask questions, thereby giving me an invitation to tell them of God's love for us through Christ.

If I am a harsh, cruel or critical person they will think of me as a hypocrite and probably not want to hear anything about my faith or the "loving God" I worship.

So what message is being sent to the world today by the bombings and retaliation taking place in the middle-east?

How can anyone, President Bush included, claim Islam is a religion of peace-loving people if this is how they act towards one another?

"But wait Dan, we have Muslims here in America and they're not bombing anything..."

Yeah, well, today's America has a way of doing that to your faith. Contrast the faith of our predecessors with the faith of the average "christian" in America today.

After decades of being told we can not pray or read the Bible in public (government) schools, and that we are not created but the result of blind luck and circumstance, and that our parents have the "right" to kill us before we are born, oh and don't you dare put a nativity scene on the front lawn of your city hall... You get the idea.

Christians have been so far beaten down in America today it's hard to tell one from a Muslim or a Jew.

So why don't Muslim's in America bomb each other? Because they, as we all once were, are immigrants and they came to America expecting a better life and to be able to worship as they see fit.

Immigrants, legal and illegal, still see America as the shining jewel of freedom in the world. They come to our shores because they want a better life for their children.

Now I'm not advocating any form of illegal immigration. In fact, if we simply enforce Constitutional law regarding legal immigration I doubt there would be much of a problem. But I digress...

But even in America the Islamic bible, the Quran (Koran) is pretty clear about certain things. In just a quick scan using Google I found the Quran tells Muslims to:

kill the disbelievers wherever they find them (Q. 2:191);
to murder them and treat them harshly (Q. 9:123);
slay them (Q. 9:5);
fight with them, (Q. 8: 65 );
It orders its followers to fight the unbelievers until no other
religion except Islam is left (Q. 2: 193);
It says that the non-believers will go to hell and will drink
boiling water (Q. 14: 17).

Compare this with the Christian teachings of love thy neighbor, do unto others, turn the other cheek, etc. and you immediately see the stark contrast between the two faiths.

So why are Muslims killing Muslims if "we" are the infidels? In Iraq it has to do with their new government. In the former Czech Republic it had to do with... their old government. Do you see a theme here?

Only in America do we have the potential to be the land of the free. I say potential because the appathy of most American's precludes that from happening today.

For all those who love liberty and freedom we must stand together and work towards the restoration of our Constitutionally limited government AND its Biblical foundations. Only through these can we as a nation return to our position as the "shining jewel" people from around the world envision us to be.

And for my money the best vehical to get there is the Constitution Party. Simply read the Platform and if you don't agree with 99% of what's written there then I wonder why you've
subscribed to this list.

So the next time you hear a conversation about Iraq or Muslims or homocide bombings, use that as an opportunity to promote your Christian faith and your affiliation with the Constitution
Party!

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