One Last Thing | The risk in the rise of Islam (Mark Steyn's "America Alone")

Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | Nov. 19, 2006 | Jonathan Last

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> There is no hope.

Hi Soothesayer. There is a sure hope. Jesus Christ, true God and true man, has taken the punishment for our sins, earning eternal life for all who believe. He came once in humility and suffering. He will come again in glory, and will judge the whole world, including the false teachings of Mohammed. He came for all people. His message is "repent and believe". Unlike the false religion of Islam, the followers of Jesus force nobody to belong to our religion. We believe and teach that God, in Christ, will ultimately judge all who reject Him, but this will be His direct work, not ours. We do not decapitate those who reject our God's message. We simply keep preaching His truth (until they decapitate us).

[ccmay]

If you think the answer to the challenge of Islam is to spend more time watching Rolex-wearing blow-dried silk-suited money-grubbing mountebank TV preachers, then your battle has already been lost.

-ccm

[Soothesayer]

**...There is a sure hope. Jesus Christ, true God and true man...**

I hope that the Christ arrives before we exterminate ourselves. Otherwise, a great many things will be in vain. In the meantime, it will be very difficult for some to be joyous. For me it is especially difficult because I sacrificed most of my childhood (including my mental health and sanity) working for the advancement of medical technology. The hope within the prophesies BETTER be true and that's all I have to say about that.

[YouGoTexasGirl]

My answer is in post #41. However, I really love watching Joel Osteen as his message of being a "Victor not a Victim" is right on for our times in my opinion. Also, Joel doesn't flash money begging captions throughout his sermons or end his program saying that if we don't support his ministry it will not have the funds to remain aired as many of these mininstries do. He also as one earlier poster said doesn't want us to be just Sunday Christians but Christians every hour of our life. Looking across at the congregation at Lakewood you see a cross section of Houston faithfully sharing the Lord's message, something government's cannot force or make happen. To conclude, I would fight for our freedoms we have and am prepared to do so even though I'm 50 something.

[lawnguy]

I'm a little less than 100 pages into the book and it is frightening and depressing. According to Steyn, current demographics give the planet to Islam by mid-century. He sounds utterly defeatist so far -- by the end of the book does he offer any hope? They've taken over Europe without firing a shot

You can see this one coming. Some EU country will have enough patriots lying dormant, and from them will come a hard line, charismatic leader that appeals to the underlying remaining natives, and they will respond to violence with violence, and so it goes.

[B.O. Plenty]

Liberalism is not a good excuse for freedom loving, and I might add, Christian people, to surrender and let a horde of 6th century lunatic barbarians take over the world without a whimper.

They (liberals) have imbued our nation with self-hatred.......well....they haven't inbued ME with self hatred, and I bet that they have not you either. There may be things that "we" could do to at least slow the muzzies down in order to give a little time for our "leaders" to come to their senses so they will finally decide to wage a proper war on islam.

It is becoming more clear that "we the people" are going to have to take a lead in this "war" or you better start measuring your women for a burka.

[expatguy]

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