America's New God

Townhall.com ^ | August 14, 2011 | Michael Youssef

[Kaslin]

On June 26^th, the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.was the latest church to be used for the promotion of syncretism—the attempted union of different religions.  The idea was that “Christian” ministers, Jewish Rabbis, and Muslim Imams would co-lead a service in “Christian” churches around America using a multi-faith liturgy.

Sadly, 70 other churches across America signed on to do the same thing. The event was organized by a group called “Faith Shared.” It comes as no shock that the service was designed to promote “religious tolerance.” This is indeed a major step forward in promoting what I believe to be America’s new god of tolerance.

The major problem with this false god of tolerance is that it is not marked by the true love that genuine Christians believe in and are called upon to exercise. Love of others, regardless of their background, religion, or complexion, should be expressed in offering hospitality, and even service, but not at the expense of the truth. Loving people and selling out on the truth of one’s faith are two different things altogether.

These liberal “apostate” denominations are not only naïve and ignorant of the truth of the Christian faith, they are acting on emotional impulse in a way that ultimately endangers our nation. They are seeking to engender personal acceptance from others, rather than imploring others to accept Christ as the Savior. 

You may be wondering how a service that promotes “unity” could be dangerous to our nation. What many Americans do not understand is that Islam is not just a religion. It is a political and social system that is inseparable from the state. Islamic Sharia [law] is to be administered by Muslim caliphates or successors of the prophet, not a secular government. Indeed the founder of Islam was not only their prophet, but also their commander-in-chief, ruler and unifier, something they have been longing for again since the fourth one died and created a division between the Shiites and the Sunnis.

Also, what most of these naïve souls don’t understand is that Taqiah is a religious/political principal in Islam that allows Muslims to go along with this charade of mixing and mingling religions, something that is normally anathema to them. Taqiah says that when you do not have the upper hand, go along with the infidels’ schemes until you get the upper hand, and then subjugate them.

Has anyone noticed that none of these events are ever held in a Mosque? It is an anathema to have a Christian minister speak in a Mosque, but they are happy to occupy the pulpits of hapless Christians in American Christian churches. Indeed, it is considered a triumph of Islam over the infidels when they occupy Christian pulpits without opening their Mosques to Christian preachers.

Be that as it may, Bible-believing Christians should love everyone, including Muslims. That love can be expressed in a variety of ways: acts of kindness, hospitality, and friendship. Above all, there can be no greater act of love by true Christians than to share our most prized treasure with our Muslim friends.  Only Jesus Christ can meet their most desperate need by making a personal relationship with God possible. He came to earth from Heaven, took on the form of a servant, died on a cross, and rose again on the third day.

For true, genuine, and Bible-believing Christians, this is the greatest act of kindness that they can express to all people, including Muslims.

During this month of Ramadan, as Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset, all Christians need to pray that Muslims come to know the only One who is the way, the truth, and the giver of eternal life.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

The event was organized by a group called “Faith Shared Shariad.”

Fixed it...

[Gene Eric]

These liberal “apostate” denominations are not only naïve and ignorant of the truth of the Christian faith, they are acting on emotional impulse in a way that ultimately endangers our nation. They are seeking to engender personal acceptance from others, rather than imploring others to accept Christ as the Savior.

Pathetic.

[the invisib1e hand]

Islam is the problem.

And we can't seem to do anything about it.

We do, however, have one thing going for us: Muslims are arrogant.

[ZOOKER]

How can a God that we create have any more power than we do?

IOW, none.

[stockpirate]

‘The Harlot Church”

[jmacusa]

No Muslim belongs inside a Christian church unless it’s to renounce their false god and demon prophet and are asking to be born again/baptized into any Protestant denomination or are asking to baptized a Catholic. Conversely, no Protestant or Catholic has any business being inside a mosque unless it’s with a five-gallon can of gasoline and a highway flare.

[HarleyD]

If we truly loved our neighbors, we would start burning heretics at the stake.

[Yosemitest]

From the first America's new god.

Where did I read ...

" If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,
And the sign or the wonder come to pass , whereof he spake unto thee, saying,
Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them;
Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams:
for the LORD your God proveth you,
to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments,
and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.
And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death;
because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God,
which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage,
to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in.
So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.
If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying,
Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;
Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee,
from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth;
Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him;
neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him:
But thou shalt surely kill him;
thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.

And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die;
because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God,
which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage."

No we should NOT tolerate other religions.

THEY ARE INFERIOR!!!

[lentulusgracchus]

Islam is the problem.

I disagree. The power drive of liberal elites, who are trying to integrate the planet into a single power structure, are the problem. Their active work to dissolve boundaries and differences among the intended subject populations is mostly harming Western Civilization and Christendom, and nowhere is the damage more evident than among the peoples of the West.

Jewry has the same problem, of loss of faith, precisely because liberalism has been so long at work in the Jewish community. Now the rabbinate are becoming concerned about signs of dissolution in their community, but it is very late.

It doesn't help anyone in the West, that the wealthiest and most powerful individuals in the world are actively working to dissolve the society's foundations.

[lentulusgracchus]

I didn't know we had Phineas priests in this forum.

[Yosemitest]

So you like Numbers 25?

[GreyFriar]

ping

[zot]

Thanks for the ping. Those pushing tolerance will be surprised when Moslems are take control.

[EternalVigilance]

“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.”

-- G.K. Chesterton

[The_Reader_David]

How prescient C.S. Lewis’s portrayal of Narnia’s Antichrist seems lately: a fake put up by an alliance of Narnian secularists who don’t believe in anything except power and wealth and Calormenes (thinly disguised Muslims).

[The_Reader_David]

Oh, I don’t know: the treatment of the Grand Mosque in Cordoba seems a lot more useful than torching the place would have been.

And as an Orthodox Christian there are a lot of mosques I’d rather like to see returned to their original use as Orthodox churches, rather than go up in flames, and I suspect seizing them and restoring them will involve entering them.