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To: Jack Black
Well the US evangelists are pretty great at building kid centered churches that attract thousands.

Pfff! Great! So we'll have a whole nation full of really big churches pandering to the spoiled children of meat-and-potatoes Americans proffering all of the Biblical content of a paperless fortune cookie. Look, I'm sorry to rip on the image, but "Been there. Done that. HATED it." There's nothing so repulsive as insipid "churchianity". We'd be better off if all the congregants relocated to their nearest ballparks for peanuts, hot dogs and a pleasant afternoon of baseball. At least they'd be getting something that would really stir them up.

What we are witnessing is a polarization of the globe from which none will escape, which will put an end to any vain notions of noble neutrality. Every person Christianity fails to impress with the Gospel of Jesus Christ will become, by default, an adherent of The Restored Caliphate.

All of this warns that the prayers of Christendom must no longer be those skeletal structures fobbed off as "grace" at so many dinner tables; the day of such foolish luxuries -- if ever there were such -- has fled forever beyond the western horizon. Prayer cannot be empty, contrived, unthinking, dispassionate and bland. Prayer must touch the face of God or it is no prayer at all. Prayer must be understood as the single, central, vital mode of connectivity between the Christian and The One Who stands ever ready to both hear and answer. Prayer must be viewed as THE LIFELINE without which doom is assured. It must be fervent, impassioned and continual; characterizing the daily life of The Body as breathing characterizes the life of the physical body.

Start scouting your team, now. You've exactly TWO from which to choose.

26 posted on 05/02/2006 6:49:13 PM PDT by HKMk23 (We keep you alive to serve this ship. Row well, and live.)
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To: HKMk23
What we are witnessing is a polarization of the globe from which none will escape.

How odd that the predator (Islam) was borne of a heretical strain of its prey (Christianity).

Every person Christianity fails to impress with the Gospel of Jesus Christ will become, by default, an adherent of The Restored Caliphate.

Interestingly enough, according to Islamic teaching, all persons are born Muslims.
29 posted on 05/02/2006 7:02:46 PM PDT by Das Outsider (Are Marxist academics and apostate bishops trustworthy enough to tell you who the "real" Jesus is?)
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To: HKMk23
Start scouting your team, now. You've exactly TWO from which to choose.No thanks. I think a lot of Christians of a certain type like the idea that Islam is so bad and out of control that eventually every person will be forced to either join them or join a Christian opposition. It probably fits right into the Left Behind theology, but I don't buy it. Much of the Islamic world is not in agreement with worldwide nonstop Jihad. Many people will continue to chose "neither" or completely different religions like Hinduism, Scientology, Mormonism, etc.
31 posted on 05/02/2006 7:15:50 PM PDT by Jack Black
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