2006 Soap Box Archives

Ill-Fated Words 09/15/06

I don't watch television shows like the one Rosie O'Donnell is on but I did
see a replay of her saying that radical Christianity is just as dangerous as
radical Islam.

First of all, I don't know what Ms. O'Donnell is referring to when she says
radical Christianity. When compared to radical Islam it would have to mean
that there is a sect of Christians who hates and persecutes every other
religion in the world.

A group who straps explosives to their bodies and blows up innocent women and children. They would have to sacrifice their sons and daughters as suicide bombers. They would have to be willing to hack off heads with the whole world watching.

They would have to be willing to wage worldwide war against anybody who
isn't a Christian. They would treat women like cattle and indoctrinate their
children with hate.

They would have to believe that the only sure way to get to Heaven is to die
killing other human beings in the name of their deity.

They would advocate a form of government which would strip away all civil
and personal rights and turn the power to govern over to humorless old men who encourage their sons and daughters to go out and die for their cause.

I have been around Christians all my life, many denominations, many different people who interpret the Holy Bible slightly differently from
each other. I have been in charismatic churches, Evangelical churches, Pentacostal churches, all kind of churches and I have never seen the kind of Christianity Ms. O'Donnell is talking about.

So where is this radical Christianity Ms. O'Donnell fears? I am an extremely
well traveled person and I've never seen it.

Even the occasional nut like Jim Jones and David Koresh never did suicide
bombings or beheaded people and certainly did not represent anything close to the teachings of Jesus Christ.

Nor does the odd misled soul who stands beside the road with a sign saying, God hates fags. God hates the sin but loves the sinner.

Just to show you the difference, if Ms. O'Donnell had said what she did on a
television network in Iran or Saudi Arabia she would have been charged with
blasphemy, a crime punishable by death in some instances.

No Rosie, there is no comparison and although I vehemently disagree with
what you said, instead of anger, I feel pity. You see I dont really think you even believe what you said, you're just trying to hurt somebody, and Ms. O'Donnell, if you want to know who you're really hurting, go look in the mirror.

Pray for our troops.

What do you think?

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels
September 15, 2006