Yeah I see your point. I guess I havent quite got my view of Islam straight in my own mind yet. For some reason If I remember right, Bellioc I believed classifyed Islam as a heresy and not a seperate religion. I will have to dig that book back up and re read that portion. I guess my position is that we have gone throug periods of peaceful coexistance with Islam before. Of course that was after a bloody war that destroyed Christianity even in the lands of Chrisitian North africa. I suppose I am investing alot in this experiment we are doing in Iraq and hoping against hope that Democracy will temper some of Islams bad tendencies. Otherwise I guess I might need to consult our Eastern Orthodox breathen and find out how one can be a Christian under Islamic rule since they have some experience at it.
I may be wrong, but I believe that Belloc only related that some of the early Christians classified islam as a 'heresy'. Of course this is because they claimed to believe in Jesus Christ, though only as a man, a human prophet, not a diety... so that was the 'heresy' they spoke of.
I was thinking how islam and homosexuals have someting in common today. I had no problem with either until they decided to rear their ugly heads and force their way into everyone's lives. This stuff is no coincidence. The last 35 - 40 years have been a 'coming out party' for Satan; the legalization of abortion, the coming out of the closet of homosexuals, the banishment of public religious expression, sexual license, women ruling over men, the destruction of the family.
Satan has released all of his demons onto the earth at once. There's a bonafide spiritual battle royale going on out there between the forces of good and evil. The worst thing about it is that so many people have been secularized and lulled into thinking it's just politics or purely human affairs. There's more involved to winning these battles than just electing the right candidate and developing the biggest guns, it's a battle for souls as well. People need to pray for victory over these evils.