In President Obama's nobel acceptance speech, he made reference again to Islam as "a GREAT religion" (Caps, my emphasis, though it reflects the tone in which the statement was made). While I recognize both the political and practical benefits of using such a term (i.e., seeking to drive a wedge to separate the greater Muslim community from those presently and publicly endorsing jihad.... so as to avoid WWIII), at the same time I wonder if any News organization would consider counting and reporting the number of times the President of the United States has made reference to Islam as a Great Religion and the number of times he has publicly referred to Christianity as a Great Religion? I guarantee the difference would be ASTOUNDING! Question: Where's the CONSISTENCY when it comes to what many refer to today as "separation of church and state"? Seems while there may be "separation of Christianity and state", there is no "separation of Islam and...
Sword,
ReplyDeleteRe-inventing the church with a liberal social dogma and world-view seems to be the bottom line of this folly. It is a basic works righteousness mindset that only sees Christ as a great teacher of ethics. They are not ashamed of their gospel and they have the approval of the world. There is nothing new other than perhaps true Christians are finally pointing to it and calling it what it is.........
Unfortunately, the world regards this to be true Christianity, and those who proclaim the true gospel as fundementalist who take the Bible literally. Better late than never in calling them to accountablitiy.