But now put yourself in the place of a person who's confronted by a Moslem with a sword, and you've got the choice to convert or die (or worse, watch your children die).
Would you "convert" to Islam, or die a Christian?
Harder question: come Judgement day, how would it go over with Jesus if you pretend to publicly convert while remaining a Christian at heart?
I've been asking myself those questions, and while it's easy to say I'd die, like the author I have my doubts. Not about Christianity, but about my own strength of faith.
I find myself leaning on "Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil...."
I remember a young girl in Columbine who said YES moments before either Eric or Dylan put a bullet in her head:
And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death. Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them!