Fertile crescent

New York Daily News ^ | 12/26/03 | TAMER EL-GHOBASHY

[Valin]

What people do not realize is that there is a growing backlash in the hearts of many, particularly the young, against the anything-goes, there-is-no-absolute-truth culture that has been developed in this country over the last century. Moral relativism as well and tolerance of all religions as equal has led people to search for a religion that makes clear to them exactly what they should and should not do and which fearlessly holds itself out to the world proclaiming that it is the true way and no other.

An opportunity IF the church is willing to grab it.

And that means you....and ME...and all believers.

[tet68]

For some reason, the term "Fertile Crescent" seems awfully erotic to me.

Hence the term, "Dining at the Delta."

I'm kinda partial to "that moist shaded grotto, the treasure trove of Aphrodite", myself.

Musky Phonebooks???

[FITZ]

it was hard when she wed a Muslim man in August.

Most women converts to Islam do so because they feel they can get a man that way. Some women will do anything --- include lose their faith --- if there is a man willing to marry them for it.

[FITZ]

Many are turning into another path to destruction: the bonds of Islam. They see in it at least a religion which makes things clearly defined and is not at all relative but which gives them a path and a purpose and above all something to die for---something to believe in.

Same reason Nazism and other totalitarian ideals catch hold. Some people want all the answers to life handed down to them, ambiguity is not something the masses handle well.