It's a big, big difference. Culture is religion externalized and made specific; the ideas America was founded on based in Biblical truth.
Every country where Islam has dominance is marked by tyranny, corruption, and misery, thus the flood of Muslim immigrants in recent decades to the Western world as they try to escape the cultural failure which is rooted in the oppression of Islam and the Koran.
We are in a war; a war of ideas that sets truth against error and Biblical and Koranic worldviews. Islam has said it will prevail, either through persuasion, or ultimately by force. I, for one, will not live under this tyranny.
President Bush—or any other American leader—acquiescing to Islamic demands for equality in the American cultural arena, revealed by this adding a Koran to the White House library, signifies once again how we are slowly losing in this critical war of ideas.
So we should certainly pray for him and the Administration. Ultimately, America's salvation rests in her Christian pulpits. Evangelical Christian pastors and teachers should be earnestly "contending for the faith," and witnessing to Muslims of their error by professional preaching of the Gospel, and critical review of the Koran.
David Jonsson's recent work, "The Clash of Ideologies: The Making Of The Christian and Islamic Worlds," goes into this in exhaustive detail. I recommend it.
AMERICA AT WAR
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The Clash of Ideologies - A Review
