Thursday, July 31, 2014

The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonah;and behold, a greater than Jonah is here.     Matthew 12:41

The destruction of the tomb of the prophet Jonah in Mosul, Iraq by the Islamic extremists attempting to create a new caliphate is a minor issue compared to what they are doing to Christians. America and so many nations throughout the world have been so blessed by the sheer goodness and kindness of the Christian faith that they impute this genuine goodness of Christianity to others who call themselves religious. Consciously or unconsciously they feel Christianity is such a good religion all other religions must be like it, good.

The religion of the caliphate, however, is not kind. To Christians they say you have three choices: convert, live as second class citizens paying taxes and being persecuted because you are Christians, or die.That's what they say! It is all over the news, and still there are westerners who will not speak out against such malevolence. They were not kind to prisoners captured during their incursion, executing, by various cruel methods, thousands. They are not even kind to their own Muslim brothers and sisters who might in some way express their personal Islamic faith differently.

A religion which denies the expression of faith by others, that persecutes Christians, Jews, Hindus, etc. just because they are what they are, that kills because others believe in Jesus Christ as savior is not good. All people, including those who believe Islam is the religion of peace, should express our moral condemnation of the immorality of the Islamic extremists.

The men of Nineveh will rise up in judgment against the men of the extremists of ISIS.

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