Ready for a new Crusade?
There is a rising chorus of voices among evangelical
Christians calling for a war against Islam. Not a war against Islamic
terrorists or even radical Muslims, but a holy crusade against the second
largest religion on the planet.
A few days ago it was Michele Bachmann cheering for a holy
war and now an article published in Charisma,
a leading evangelical magazine, advocates the violent obliteration of Islam (It
has since been taken down by the magazine).
These calls for genocide are appalling to most of us, but
when you are convinced God is on your side, anything is possible. Just watch a
beheading video, if you can.
It’s the twenty-first century, but we are still victims of
our primitive urges, superstition and intense tribalism. My feeling is that as
religion becomes less and less relevant in peoples’ lives, as is the current
trajectory, those holding the most dogmatic religious views will become more
unhinged and dangerous as they strive for relevancy. It’s happening in the Middle
East (with America’s help, of course) and it’s happening among conservative
Christian enclaves in the West.
The sad reality is that religious extremists, whether
Christian or Muslim or Jewish, never see the extremist in the mirror.
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