Bob Edgar and Felton May need to read their Bibles more- and bear false witness less!
Bad theology we can expect from executives of the radical National Council of Churches and from United Methodist bishops. It's almost in the job description. Instinctive anti-Americanism, too.
But they really shouldn't accuse the President of the United States of saying things which he in fact has never said.
Though if he had said that God is actively opposed to the attempt of adherents of a false religion to impose its beliefs upon the world by force, terrorize and murder the innocent, and oppress the powerless in their own nations, he would have been right. Do these gentlemen seriously believe that God was neutral in World War II?
Of course God takes sides in wars- and World War III, the war against Islamofascist terrorism, is certainly no exception. For these gentlemen to argue otherwise would be for them to argue that God is indifferent to evil and neutral in attempts to contain and combat it- something which I doubt that the liberation theologians in their respective constituencies doubt for a moment- provided, of course, that they- rather than God- gets to define what is meant by "evil."
Do the reverend gentlemen- who seem to think the Lord of Hosts (the Lord of what?!) looks passively upon the beheading of school children, the hanging of rape victims, the feeding of political dissidents feet-first into plastic shredders, and the flying of airliners into skyscrapers with neutrality? And have the gentlemen never read their Bibles? Of course, if they took their Bibles seriously, they would be neither executives of the National Council of Churches nor mainstream bishops of the United Methodist Church in the first place, would they?
But yes, gentlemen. God does indeed take sides in wars- and he who thinks otherwise is either biblically illiterate, or has allowed his ideological blinders to make it impossible to see something the Bible states quite clearly and repeatedly.
You need to read your Bibles more, gentlemen- however little they have to do with your theology. You might start with Joshua 1o:42, Joshua 23:3, I Samuel 12:9, I Kings 5:3, 2 Chronicles 20:29, and Zechariah 14:12, as well as the Exodus account and just about every other place where the Bible even addresses the issue.
But they really shouldn't accuse the President of the United States of saying things which he in fact has never said.
Though if he had said that God is actively opposed to the attempt of adherents of a false religion to impose its beliefs upon the world by force, terrorize and murder the innocent, and oppress the powerless in their own nations, he would have been right. Do these gentlemen seriously believe that God was neutral in World War II?
Of course God takes sides in wars- and World War III, the war against Islamofascist terrorism, is certainly no exception. For these gentlemen to argue otherwise would be for them to argue that God is indifferent to evil and neutral in attempts to contain and combat it- something which I doubt that the liberation theologians in their respective constituencies doubt for a moment- provided, of course, that they- rather than God- gets to define what is meant by "evil."
Do the reverend gentlemen- who seem to think the Lord of Hosts (the Lord of what?!) looks passively upon the beheading of school children, the hanging of rape victims, the feeding of political dissidents feet-first into plastic shredders, and the flying of airliners into skyscrapers with neutrality? And have the gentlemen never read their Bibles? Of course, if they took their Bibles seriously, they would be neither executives of the National Council of Churches nor mainstream bishops of the United Methodist Church in the first place, would they?
But yes, gentlemen. God does indeed take sides in wars- and he who thinks otherwise is either biblically illiterate, or has allowed his ideological blinders to make it impossible to see something the Bible states quite clearly and repeatedly.
You need to read your Bibles more, gentlemen- however little they have to do with your theology. You might start with Joshua 1o:42, Joshua 23:3, I Samuel 12:9, I Kings 5:3, 2 Chronicles 20:29, and Zechariah 14:12, as well as the Exodus account and just about every other place where the Bible even addresses the issue.
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