Convert the world to Christianity — kill gays and Catholics???
Imagine: you are a foot soldier in a paramilitary group whose purpose is to remake America as a Christian theocracy, and establish its worldly vision of the dominion of Christ over all aspects of life. You are issued high-tech military weaponry, and instructed to engage the infidel on the streets of New York City. You are on a mission – both a religious mission and a military mission — to convert or kill Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, gays, and anyone who advocates the separation of church and state – especially moderate, mainstream Christians. Your mission is “to conduct physical and spiritual warfare”; all who resist must be taken out with extreme prejudice. You have never felt so powerful, so driven by a purpose: you are 13 years old.
Isn’t it interesting how fundamentalist railing against the evils of your local video game retailer can so suddenly turn to embrace the same when it fits their self righteousness??? These same people would rise up en mass to decry the Palestinian’s video game which trains suicide bombers to kill the most — then Left Behind publishes this???
Let’s convert the world this weekend — by killing people who don’t agree with us.
U2 LYRICS
“Pride (In The Name Of Love)”
One man come in the name of love
One man come and go
One man come, he to justify
One man to overthrow
In the name of love
What more in the name of love
In the name of love
What more in the name of love
One man caught on a barbed wire fence
One man he resist
One man washed on an empty beach.
One man betrayed with a kiss
In the name of love
What more in the name of love
In the name of love
What more in the name of love
(nobody like you…)
Early morning, April 4
Shot rings out in the Memphis sky
Free at last, they took your life
They could not take your pride
In the name of love
What more in the name of love
In the name of love
What more in the name of love
In the name of love
What more in the name of love…
Bono had it so right…
June 3rd, 2006 at 9:19 am
After trying to understand how such a betrayal of the Faith could come from the efforts of Tim LaHaye, Rick Warren and Tyndale Publishing — especially in the Year of the DaVinci Code — I conclude we no longer have an assault on Christianity from just the conspiracy theorists. Remember Paul’s shot at the Jewish Romans: “God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”
It’s Christianity being like Palestinian Islam — “Shahadi! Allahu Akbar!” Or, as Lenin pointedly expressed it: “The best revolutionary is a youth with no morals” — but with a big cause. The 13-year-old can inflict any atrocity because he’s on the side of the angels.
If this thing’s for real, then the powerful delusion prophesied for the world is leaving a trail of cloven burn marks through the sanctuary. The believer is left to do what damage control can be done, and that through the mortal limits of personal witness.
But hasn’t it been ever so?