Posted by
Republiservative on Friday, September 12, 2008 3:16:18 PM
Whenever I hear someone say something like "Obama actually thinks a Muslim evening call to prayer is the best sound in the world", or "Bible under attack by Islam!", "China making different Bible texts, oppressing Christianity!" or the like, I ask God to forgive the writers, speakers, and any affronted observers of such comments...media and political intermeddlers DO thrive off controversies, and don't always let truth be a barrier to ANYTHING...while main political contests devolve to little more than two monkeys throwing you-know-what at each other and implying the most coated must lose.
The fact is, all politicians know that Muslims are the Hispanics of Europe, and that while Islam is Abrahamic like Judaism and Christianity, not that much time is spent by Muslims studying the New Testament...which is not to imply Muslims on the main do so because they "hate" it or its followers. Obama is just more forward in playing to an impression of the Bible and its ways of interpretation as, say, the European Union Parliament and its member nation governments ALLOW it to be printed and disseminated.
That China merely prints the books and related texts, or has in the recent past, is of no moment, as it would seem ANYONE printing them would have to adhere to the European rigors.
Now, if Muslims abroad or anyone anywhere thusly arrive at this impression in nature of somehow Jesus Christ was this seer guy-dude who was Che Guevara, Karl Marx, Caesar Chavez, and Martin Luther King all rolled into one, leading organized labor and political committees on behalf of everyone and everyone was healed by His totalist Socialist/communist mere human efforts, while such a view or similar is certainly untraditional and otherwise unknown for 2,000 or so years, that is NOT the fault of China, and NOT the fault of any Muslims or anyone else reading such "REALLY New Testament".
One hopes more will come of public interest than the aforesaid monkey-vs-monkey scenario. An essential part of that would seem to be to acknowledge that what we have going in the USA hasn't worked for most nationals, nor most non-Muslim immigrants over the last even CLINTON years forward, nor will it work...unchanged...for Europe's Muslims or anyone else not of this Hemisphere and not yet experienced in current USA culture; one hopes more will come forth in the true spirit of peaceful Abrahamic and other faiths as would regard conscience and service to God and others, than just "figgerin'" Muslims from European Union backlogs will just be the "next" to flow through the same things so many of the rest of us have without much result except to lose more communication and civil liberty capabilities...no, most Muslims and most of earth's diverse peoples are NOT terrorists or killers, and "figgerin'" that you might not deliver what you otherwise imply, so you need iron hamfists to "make it look good for security without military and stuff, see?", is so cheesy words fail.
And it's ludicrous to imply USA nationals must "hate" or "fear" Muslims Europe might start sending us (what would Danny Thomas, famous Lebanese USA celebrity, e.g., say?), just so we "avoid suspicion of being Qaeda-cruited if'n those hotbloods don't like what they wind up with".
Let's not "defeat" bad foreign economic and civil rights leaders through playing along and shell-gaming; and I hope everyone on earth gets a chance to read Christian Scriptures as they were truly recorded in Christ's time, or in manifestly exactly those words in one's own language, so they can see Christ neither advocates terrorism, revolution, crime, or any particular relief from legal responsibility or preparation for any kingdom other than God's as one enters at physical death...entry keyed to by how one lived on earth, regardless of status or other demographics.
Sidebar re charity issues: I said last month the city of Waukegan, Illinois joined with many others this year to make even Church and Fire Dept. "Fill The Boot" campaigns for charity against the law as panhandling; it appears that Waukegan has issued a permit for its firemen to collect for the Jerry Lewis MDA effort THIS weekend. I saw them out and donated myself this morning. To those readers who pass by the intersection of Grand and Green Bay this weekend, please be as generous to those firefighters as is within your means...they embody the kind of government/private party efforts to help those truly in need, and may God watch over and protect those people as they work for social charity.