2006 Soap Box Archives

Christians 03/24/06

Everytime anyone starts talking about the persecution of Christians by Muslims there is always somebody out there who either doesn’t believe it or starts making excuses to suggest that Christians have brought it on themselves.

Well try this on for size. As I write this there is a man in Afghanistan who has been sentenced to death for converting to Christianity and no he is not a foreigner, he is an Afghan.

Now would you or would you not call that persecution?

Some people will go to all lengths to discredit Christianity.
They talk about Jim Jones and David Koresh, about the Spanish Inquisition and all the way back to The Crusades.

Well I’ve got a rude awakening for you, neither Jim Jones nor David Koresh represented Christianity. What they did is just as despicable and deplorable to a true Christian as to anybody else on earth, probably more so.

The Spanish Inquisition was one of the cruelest periods in human history and in no way representative of Christianity. And to claim that it was being done in the name of Almighty God makes it even worse. Thank God it ended three hundred years ago.

The Crusades were also cruel and though we tend to look back at them as noble undertakings, in most cases they were anything but that.

I personally think that a lot of people who site these events simply don’t know what Christianity is about. No matter how evil men have twisted it, if you look in the Bible, you will find that Christianity is built on love and forgiveness.

Of course Christianity has been misused and abused. Of course, there have been horrible things done, supposedly in the name of God, which have absolutely nothing to do with being a follower of Jesus.

I know that there are profit motivated preachers, charlatans,
con men and dishonest, unprincipled people who operate under the Christian banner for nothing more than their own benefit, but please don’t judge the faith by these people.

A true Christian would never give anybody poison Kool Aid,
make them stay in a burning building, torture people in the name of God or senselessly slaughter thousands of the helpless or bomb an abortion clinic.

Don’t take somebody’s word about what being a true Christian means, take the time to read the first four books of the New Testament which deal with the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

If Islam is truly a peaceful religion, why are they so afraid of Christians?

Pray for our troops.

What do you think?

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels

 

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