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"ISLAM IS THE ENEMY"

Wrongo.

Radical, religious zealots in ANY religion are the danger.

Those who practice any religion in non-peaceful ways are enemies of our Constitution, Rule of Law, and to our God-given freedoms.

Radical, zealot Marxist/Leftist/Liberals that have been practicing their religion in non-peaceful ways by imposing their beliefs on the rest of us for over 60 years fall into that catagory.

There are even radical, zealots that claim to be "Christians" who are champing at the bit for the opportunity to obtain power and control at the Federal level so as to impose their version of "Gawd's government" on the rest of us, too ... whether we like it or not.

I thank God for inspiring our Framers to put the Constitution between them and me.

There are even radical, zealots that claim to be "Christians" who are champing at the bit for the opportunity to obtain power and control at the Federal level so as to impose their version of "Gawd's government" on the rest of us, too

"What would Jesus drive?"
"Choice on earth" Christmas cards.

Wrongo.

So you do see a moral equivalency between Christians stating that Islam is promoting hate and murder and the Islamists promoting hate and murder.

I fail to understand that kind of logic.

I thank God for inspiring our Framers to put the Constitution between them and me

And I'm grateful to the Leaders of the First Great Awakening, who very strongly believed in the right of an individual to express his religious beliefs. If it weren't for them, we'd probably still be part of Great Britain.

From The Concord Review

Although the Great Awakening only lasted from 1735-1745, it not only increased church membership but also stimulated education and promoted a separation of church and state....The Great Awakening influenced the founding of prestigious universities, including Princeton, Dartmouth, Brown, Rutgers, Washington and Lee, and Hampden-Sydney.[41] Because tolerance, one of the results of the Awakening, was associated with atheism, the Standing Order ended the Holy Commonwealth, or church-state. Thus, the Great Awakening affected not only affairs within the church, but it also transformed the colonial government and had a profound impact on secondary education.
The Great Awakening, furthermore, effected significant social leveling and led to increased religious tolerance within the colony of Connecticut....

How lucky we were to have such a religious movement in Colonial America!!

Killing Underscores Enmity of Evangelists and Muslims

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The Web site goes on to say that "new believers" are being persecuted and asks church members to "pray for a recent surge of persecution against the ministry in Sidon."

"The local `religious' leaders have written about us falsely in the newspapers and preached against us in the city mosques," it added.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/25/international/middleeast/25LEBA.html

There are even radical, zealots that claim to be "Christians" who are champing at the bit for the opportunity to obtain power and control at the Federal level so as to impose their version of "Gawd's government" on the rest of us, too ... whether we like it or not.

I don't really disagree with your post except for the above statement. I see no signs of what you are talking about. No one in this country wants a gov't endorsed religion. Christians would like the gov't to stop being so hostile to religion. Big difference. Religion is good for society. It goes into the hearts and minds of people and motivates them to live morally, help their fellow man, be virtuous, and many other things government cannot begin to do for us. Government should not discourage religion even while it never endorses one.

A willingly transformed life can do far more good for our culture than a cold, neutral government that is funded by theft.