Posted on 02/15/2002 6:01:20 PM PST by Michael2001
Like the people of Middle-Earth, the people of America are under attack. The values upon which our great nation was founded are under attack; the forces of the New World Order are mobilized, and we are under siege.
Like the people of Middle-Earth, those forces opposed to the New World Order (or Sauron in their case) are a very diverse peoples. In order to be victorious the people of Middle Earth had to put aside their petty differences; races with hundreds of years of hostile history (Dwarves and Elves for example) were forced to stop their bickering and unite against the common foe. In the same way, conservatives in America must unite in order to defeat our enemies.
There are two groups in this nation and the world that hate Christianity and seek to destroy it. They are the liberal elite (mainly made up of former Christians and Christians in name only) and radical Islam. One is more open about it then the other, but both are hostile elements.
Yet instead of uniting to stand up against our foes together, Christians prefer to bicker and fight amongst ourselves. On almost every issue of political importance Catholics and Baptists are in agreement, yet I still hear from certain family members, from people in my Church, and by Freepers that somehow the Catholic Church is the most dangerous force in America. This while Muslims flew planes into our buildings and the supposedly Southern Baptist Clinton and Gore committed atrocities too numerous to list.
As a Baptist (SBC), I would love it if America's 50 million Catholics converted and became Baptist tomorrow. However, I am also a realist, and I realize that is not very likely to happen. There will be no mass exodus from Catholicism. Unfortunately, there are not enough Southern Baptists in this country to defeat our enemies (there are a lot more liberals than Southern Baptists) So we have a choice, we can either take Catholics (and Mormons, and Jews, and Methodists etc.) as our allies, or we can watch as our enemies win election after election, corrupt our schools, and the boy scouts, and everything else that we hold dear.
This war against terrorism (or radical Islam) is greater than most people realize. These are the same people the Orthodox Christians in Serbia were and are fighting; these are the same people the Jews in Israel are fighting (I served for three years in the Israeli military, because I knew it would not be long before the same enemy came to American shores; guess how right I was?)
This is of course an oversimplification of the facts, and I am not the best of writers, but I hope my point is made clear. The people of Middle Earth put aside their differences in order to defeat an enemy that was a threat to them all, will the people of America do the same?
Who killed 3,000 Americans and then danced in the streets celebrating the fact? Who elected Clinton? Who is taking away your rights? Who is corrupting your schools? Who wants to take away your guns?-- I'll give you a clue, it's not the Catholics, it's not the Jews and it's not the Mormons.
The "Lord of the Rings" a blueprint for conservative Christians in AmericaCool. I shall immediately take up sorcery. I mean, the good kind.
Bilbo bump....
Hate to break the news but a majority of Jews and Catholics voted for Clinton.
The cultural schism between the Western and Eastern halves of European Christian civilization marked principally by their respective religious traditions, Roman Catholic and Protestant in the West and Orthodox in the East, may or may not prove fatal. One issue stands above all others in determining the outcome: the Islamic resurgence that has rapidly come to mark the post-Cold War era.
Destroy them instead.
Ditto to those who go nutso over the "magic" in C.S. Lewis's novels.
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