Tag: Christian

Are Terrorists Just Killers?

http://beta.news.yahoo.com/22-killed-suicide-car-bombings-south-baghdad-061818343.html

After all these years and after all the efforts of the Alliance, the USA, the Democratically elected government of Iraq, there is still bombings, suicide missions and assassinations?  What do these so-called terrorists want?  A person cannot deal with someone else who just kills and kills but has no specific agenda other than the killing.  Is it time for all of us to recognize that the terrorist is merely a cold-blooded killer who uses the cover of terrorism as an excuse for carnage?  As difficult as it is for Westerners to understand, it seems that these Arab countries are still very tribal and that they are willing to randomly kill a lot of people of the other clan.  They do it simply because the people are of the other clan.  Yes, it may also be because the other people are of a different Islamic sect.  Anyway, we did away with the “horrible” dictator Saddam and unleashed the terror and the horror and the insanity of the groups that he suppressed.  So, although we would like to think that the Islamic Arab nations are like the Christian West, they are not.  The Western culture, politics and social structure is formed by and informed by a 2000 year history of Christianity.  (Yes, Christianity as a religion has its faults but the fact of it being a core formational aspect of Western society cannot be denied.) The Islamic counties are also informed by a long history of Islam.  However, they are still in a tribal period of development and their societies still practice religiously motivated brutal murder and clan warfare without any significant resistance or objection on the part of the Islamic leadership.  In fact, it is a fearful prospect that it is Islam itself that fosters such extremely violent behavior.  So what to do?  This writer opposed the Iraq war and the Afghanistan war because it was the intervention of Western Christian and Western political systems into areas that were thoroughly Islamic and functioned politically in a radically tribal way.  I believed that the injection of twentieth century concepts into a 7th or 8th century culture was not productive and could cause the chaotic violence which we have witnessed.  So, what to do?  The USA should continue to use it moral, cultural, religious, and political influence in these areas in a peaceful way.  We should not resort to regime chance, political assassination of leaders such as Hussein and Gaddafi, nor should we foment political upheaval through the CIA.  All of these methods are not effective and the evidence of these past years seems to vindicate that our interference in the region is counter productive.  The violence that follows the dictators that we remove is equal to if not greater than the dictator!

Clinton on Libya

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Article/201103115948598?om_rid=NsgG76&om_mid=_BNd32VB8Zi2Jkg

The key questions that must be pressed on Obama Administration officials is , “Why is the so-called popular uprising of the people of Libya not succeeding?”

According to the article cited, the key to USA diplomatic policy in Libya is that we are supporting the vast majority of the people who are in a massive revolt against the Libyan government and that this effort MUST NOT be an outside invasion or an imposition of Western military power in Libya.  Yet, the Obama people say okay to missile strikes against the government and its building, cities, telecommunications, ports, roads, airports and citizens.  The Obama people say okay to the use of A10 killer machine low flying aircraft against Libyan uniformed military personnel.  (The A10 can kill  5000 persons in one minute.) Yes, in a minute.  President Obama signs a “secret” protocol, which has the effect of an empowering order, to allow USA military and clandestine forces to supply weapons and training to the rebel army inside Libya.  They also send Special Forces operatives into Libya as attack spotters who call in the coordinates for airs strikes and missile attacks.  USA government operatives under the CIA are actively engaged in fomenting anti Libyan government propaganda.  Yet, all of this is failing to topple the government.  Do you not think that a very weak, unpopular and merely dictatorial gang of a few Libyan leaders would have been routed by now?  Is it possible that the legal and internationally recognized government of Libya is actually supported by the people?  Is Hilary telling us one thing but pursuing an opposite policy?  It is just not true that the government of the USA is attempting to help the Libyan people.  Rather, the USA government is acting as a criminal aggressor in an undeclared war of conquest against the legal government of oil rich Libya.  Our government is doing this to seize control over the national treasure of Libya which is vast oil deposits.  Our government is using an obsequious and compliant United Nations in a betrayal of the very essence of the United Nations Charter. No one may care about Libya, after all it is an arid desert country of dark-skinned arab muslim people.  However, this writer sees in this care-less-ness the same ignorance on the part of the USA citizens that allowed us and the rest of the world to ignore the Nazi genocide against the Gypsies, Homosexuals, Roman Catholics and Jews.  We are involved in Libya in such a way as to justify the charge of “State Sponsored Terrorism” to be lodged against the USA in the same international courts that have accused Serbs, Croats and Sudanese of Crimes against Humanity.

Baseball, Sparky and Christianity

http://www.thepostgame.com/features/201105/other-side-sparky

Many bloggers have picked up this story as evidence that this man saw the fallacy of Christianity and abandoned the Church.  Such a very tiny bit of social behavior on the part of the Priest could not cause this life long Roman Catholic to abandon the Church,  and refuse a Church Funeral.  The article depicts a sincere and good man, and I am sure he considered that he too may have made some minor social mistakes during his life.  This kind of practicing Christian was not unaware of any faults of his own that others had silently forgiven.  Surely, he saw the Priest as a man with a job.  The Priest obviously has come to his friend.  Good.  The Priest has done his role with the dying Catholic.  Good.  So what that the Priest was an avid Baseball fan!  The Coach merely decided to affirm  something that he practiced throughout his life, humility.  The self-righteous anger of many bloggers about this devout Roman Catholic dishonors his memory.  He decision about his own funeral was a final action of a devout Christian man who was consistent.  He understood that his “daily Mass” attendance had inculcated in himself an attitude of gratitude in his own life which for Jesus’ sake resulted in good works and charity throughout his life.  One small fault of one priest who was a baseball fan did not cause Sparky to abandon all of that.  Instead, it informed his decisions concerning what he most wanted, and that was to be the best Christian he could be and if that meant no funeral or memorial service because he rested completely in the arms of Jesus and not his own fame, that speaks volumes.

Egyptian Christians Persecuted, Murdered, by Muslims

The video tells the whole story.  Sadly the mainline Christian Churches like the Lutherans, Methodists, Presbyterians are virtually silent on this issue.  However, Roman Catholicism and world Orthodoxy are trying their best to bring this crime to international attention.  But France and England, former colonial powers in Egypt are not interested.  Instead through NATO and with help of USA they are interested in fighting a “Resource War for Oil” against the Libyan people.  Watch the video, get informed and write your federal reps and the leaders of the USA churches telling them they need to take this seriously.  You can make a difference with your emails, letters.  Think of it this way, your email in defense of persecuted Egyptian Christians is your voice against the modern nazi-like persecution of an innocent people.  When the Jews were being herded and exterminated in Dauchau, too many people were silent.  It has happened again in Sudan, in Liberia, in Sierra Leone, in Ghana, in Ruwanda, in Dafur.  But in all of these the world ignored the pleas of those being killed.  Please email your leaders and the denominations and ask them to do something about this.

Muslims are not a Nation, they are a Religion

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheat-sheet/item/obama-to-push-new-muslim-outreach/mending-fences/?om_rid=NsgG76&om_mid=_BNyoQBB8bBuWWR

Repeatedly we read about the USA approach to Muslims.  Well, we need to get over THAT foolishness.  There is no Muslims.  Such a simplification is dangerous to USA health.  Like all other religions Islam is broken into national, ethnic, cultural, historic and denominational factions.  Just as there is no Vatican for Islam, so too there is no one Muslim group that can credibly represent the feelings and aspirations of all Muslims.  A far better approach is for our President, who himself comes from a background highly influenced by Islam, to approach the national aspirations of persons within well-defined specific nations.  Therefore, our approach should be toward all Egyptians and not just the Muslims.  We need to remember that Coptic Christians are a persecuted minority in Egypt and that our President is not being true to American Freedom of Religion if he panders to the so-called Muslim majority at the expense of the Coptic Christians.  This is also true of the Chaldean Christians of Iraq, and the Orthodox Christians of Tunisia and other middle Eastern nations.

Why Obama Doesn’t Care Much for Easter

http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/Obama-Easter-Christians-message/2011/04/26/id/394080?s=al&promo_code=C27B-1

The article says all that needs to be said about Obama and his religious views.  Hey, one should not call another a liar when they proclaim that they are Christians.  However, one can look at the persons definitions of what Christianity means to them, especially when they have published a book broadcasting those definitions to the world.  You may be very surprised by what his book reveals about himself.

Note that you will need to highlight the link and  use your right mouse key to open the link.  The article is very revealing and deserves the extra effort.  Be sure to find out what many have already discovered.

Obama Watched The Destruction of Osama!

In the news we see a photo of the President and the Vice President and the Secretary of State as they watch up close and personnel the killing of our arch-enemy Osama Bin Laden.  It must have been a horrific scene.  No sorry here for the mastermind of the Twin Towers killing of over three thousand.  Nonetheless, America is not a terrorist nation.  Surely, our President felt in his bones the violence of this event.  And I am confident that it was difficult for him to watch killing as it actually happened especially because he had personally ordered it to be done.

I am not a fan of the President and I believe that he is taking the USA to ruin by following a MAOist or perhaps a corporatist policy.  Whatever label you place on his policies, I believe they are the wrong ones.  Why?  Because they all rely upon the wisdom and the fore-site of the central USA government to make the every day personal decisions that rightly belong to the individual.

Yet, I pray for our President everyday.  I do not dislike him.  In fact I think that a lot of people misunderstand Rush Limbaugh when he says that he wants the President to fail.  Why do I think Rush is misunderstood?  Because Rush does not separate the “person” of Obama from the “person” who is President.  I am absolutely sure that Rush Limbaugh has no ill will against Barrack  Hussein Obama.  I mean it!  And if Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity or Marc Levin harbor ill will against the person known to us as Barrack Hussein Obama, then  double shame on them.    But this writer believes in his heart, that although all three named individuals vehemently opposed the policies of the President, they wish him and his family no harm.  And I am equally sure that BHO understands this and is okay with it.  (Hey, BHO is President.  He’s a big boy and he fishes with the big boys so he knows that what I say is true.  If he didn’t, he would never have gotten to where he is.)

Okay, What’s the point?

This writer wholeheartedly believes that these days are the most crucial days in the life of our President.  He can follow the ways of war and killing.  Honestly, in the Osama thing he probably had no real choice!  But in what comes NOW he has a very big choice.

President Obama can follow the path opened to him by the Nobel Peace Prize or he can follow the path opened to him by the Central Intelligence agency.

It is this writer’s hope that President Obama will follow the path opened to him by the Nobel Peace Prize.  It is the harder course, it is the more treacherous path, it has the most possibility for failure.  Nonetheless, I believe that President Obama has the “Right Stuff” and that he can make the tough decision and opt for peace.

Pope on Holy Thursday

http://romereports.com/  Some really great video here as it connects you to a series of good visuals about the Pope and the Vatican.   You will need to highlight the link and then use your mouse or key to highlight the open this link tab.  Sorry ’bout that but at this point I do not have the computer savvy to get the link to open directly.  But it is worth the few extra steps, it is good video.