Posted on 11/14/2015 8:28:57 AM PST by EternalVigilance
John Quincy Adams wrote (reacting to the Russo-Turkish wars):
"In the seventh century of the Christian era, a wandering Arab of the lineage of Hagar, the Egyptian, combining the powers of transcendent genius, with the preternatural energy of a fanatic, and the fraudulent spirit of an impostor, proclaimed himself as a messenger from Heaven, and spread desolation and delusion over an extensive portion of the earth. Adopting from the sublime conception of the Mosaic law, the doctrine of one omnipotent God; he connected indissolubly with it, the audacious falsehood, that he was himself his prophet and apostle. Adopting from the new Revelation of Jesus, the faith and hope of immortal life, and of future retribution, he humbled it to the dust, by adapting all the rewards and sanctions of his religion to the gratification of the sexual passion. He poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of polygamy; and he declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind. THE ESSENCE OF HIS DOCTRINE WAS VIOLENCE AND LUST: TO EXALT THE BRUTAL OVER THE SPIRITUAL PART OF HUMAN NATURE."
"Between these two religions, thus contrasted in their characters, a war of twelve hundred years has already raged. That war is yet flagrant; nor can it cease but by the extinction of that imposture, which has been permitted by Providence to prolong the degeneracy of man. While the merciless and dissolute dogmas of the false prophet shall furnish motives to human action, there can never be peace upon earth, and good will towards men. The hand of Ishmael will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him. It is, indeed, amongst the mysterious dealings of God, that this delusion should have been suffered for so many ages, and during so many generations of human kind, to prevail over the doctrines of the meek and peaceful and benevolent Jesus."
(Blunt, 1830, 29:269, capitals in orig.).
Well, to be fair it was Adams’ hatred of slavery which the Arabic trade was, in part, responsible for bringing to America that led to his strongly anti-Islamic views.
They still practice slavery.
Any currently LIVING ex presidents speaking out against Islam? Other than to call it, dishonestly, the ‘religion of peace’?
That’s not a job, it’s a joyous experience.
Uhmmm.....no.
They’re all calling Islam the religion of peace.
Makes you wonder where their loyalty really lies...
Who says the two can never coincide, bro?
Well, the way I look at it they’re either ignorant and stupid, or they’re evil.
But where the rubber meets the road, it doesn’t matter which is the case. The bloody result is exactly the same.
I personally think either stupid or bought with Saudi money.
If I had to guess either way I’d lean to the latter.
Can God exist without Satan?
I think, yes.
Can Satan exist without God?
I think, NO.
That is the classic Christian theological view, and excellent arguments can be made for it.
Evil is what God had originally intended for goodness supplied from Him (Satan was once the righteous Lucifer, prior to human history) gone selfish, and thus gone wrong.
Evil leads to ignorant and stupid.
That’s true.
It’s hard to see how that can’t be a factor.
They don’t want to confess the danger with which the west has flirted. It is the grace of God, not Islamic religious logic, that keeps the entirety of the population of Islam from dissolving into rabid fury.
A religion of peace? More like a religion of rabid war, but whose practitioners have, to a very large extent, had their fury dampened down through other, unseen spiritual power (I unabashedly peg this on the real God).
Not necessarily. It may mean that Ishmaelites as individuals have trouble getting along with anyone.
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No one I know, dude.
I loved my job before I finally retired.
I also love Jesus, I just don’t consider that a job.
Of course, the 1st Amendment protects our freedom to worship however we choose.
So if it’s a job for you, by all means have at.
Maybe this is to put down the idea of job, just sayin’.
Recast it as a Jesus mission and the job becomes at the least a bit easier to stomach. It ain’t about your personal glory, and if you fail or everyone gets all upset at you, God has the next place for you to go.
Such people love their jobs, but as an act of will. They embrace it into an embrace that already exists between them and the Lord. The result is blessings. It never was promised to be shangri-la, but it can turn out a lot nicer than anticipated anyhow.
Bttt.
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What? You don’t like what I said? Tough nuts, bub.
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