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I was at Ruth's Chris, in Jacksonville, Florida, reading...
..."The Name" by Franklin Graham, Billy Graham's son, who has been a lightning rod for controversy of late because he's such an outspoken Christian and I had this thought...

Islam's prophet, Mohammed (Muhammad) "spread" Islam throughout the Middle East by killing those who refused to accept the validity of his supposed revelations. In the course of his bloody campaigns, he killed tens of thousands of people. He was a terrorist. No doubt about it. Osama bin Laden is his legitimate heir.

My Lord and Savior, Christ Jesus, Messiah, took no lives. In the face of violence, He advocated turning the other cheek. He gave His life to redeem the lives of sinners like me.

Obviously, there is no equivalence, no comparison, between Jesus and Mohammed. No comparison whatsoever. On what basis, then, does the theological liberal assert that all religions are essentially equivalent?

Parts of the quran (Koran), Islam’s "holy" book, are indeed poetic, but the god who speaks in the quran is not the One God who speaks in Judeo-Christian Scripture. Not unless God speaks out of both sides of His mouth, which I cannot accept. The Bible plainly says that God does not lie. If allah and Yahweh are one and the same, then God is two faced, capricious, an opportunist. How is this lost on the theological liberal?

Actually, that's an easy question. It occurred to me this evening, reading "the name," that to the PC, theological liberal, the clear distinctions between my God and allah are completely irrelevant because both God and allah are products of human imagination. Therefore, they are equivalent. In the final analysis, then, the PC idea that one belief system should be accorded the same respect as the other, or any other, is the same as saying that one person's imagination is just as valid as another person's. The latter is true, somewhat. The former is not, at all.

Many liberals would rejoin, vehemently, "no! I believe in God!" to which I would rejoin, calmly, "not my God, you don't. You believe in a god you feel comfortable believing in. Because I am a sinner, and know it, and because I know I cannot save myself, my God makes me uncomfortable, every single day, but I never doubt but that He loves me unconditionally. You have created this god in whom you supposedly believe in your own mind. You created this god. He did not create you. This god of yours is, therefore, an idol. He is not God."

Only a person who does not believe that Truth exists can believe that all beliefs are equal. If Truth is real, and if its parameters are finite, then either all religions are lies, or one religion represents Truth, and the rest are lies. The theological liberal wouldn't admit it, but he believes all religions are lies. Some more harmless/harmful than others, but all lies, nonetheless. That's why he asserts that they all should be accorded equal respect.

I believe in One God, the God of Moses who came as promised in Scripture in the person of Jesus Christ. I respect the right of a person to believe otherwise, but I do not respect his/her belief. In other words, people, according to the post-modern definition of the term, i am a bigot because I hold beliefs that exclude other beliefs. I am "incorrect." oh me. – John Rosemond 8/19/2002.

A well read individual should quickly recognize that Muhammed co-opted his new "religion" from Judaism and Christianity in a rather cynical bid for power against otherwise pagan Arabs who had likely put the whammy on some of his trading activities. When the Jews of Medina would not buy his evident claims to being even their messiah, he confiscated their wealth to further the building of an army that swept across all of Arabia within two years. Thus was Islam born and subsequently spread by theft, warfare and imposition.

He compounded evidently devout polygamy with pedophilia by marrying a six-year old girl, which was undoubtedly way outside of earlier Hebrew and hence even likewise appropriated Muslim custom of at least allowing a girl her first menses before so taking her. In evidently attempting to make this somehow more palatable, the Hadith calims that he didn't copulate with her before aged nine. But even quoted herself therein, one can readily sense quite a bit of Ayeshe's anxiety about the foul business in her own words.

Personally I don’t find much honor in any of these circumstances, nor in anyone who would endorse them, in either the earlier or present day.

Islamism is the invocation or actualization of jihad to impose sharia, or Quranic law on the infidel. Again, personally, I do not care whether it represents a spiritual or actual physical struggle to the individual Muslim. I do however, recognize it as dangerous in an environment where Islamism has declared war against America, and would therefore urge the deportation of virtually all non-citizen Muslims.

As for Americans, Islamism is the enemy in this war. I would suggest that Muslims lay low, lest they be revealed as Islamists, and should therefore be charged with sedition and possible Treason.

Any Muslims about care to comment on Islamism?