“Listen close, Listen well. For I have a story to tell. It begins not here, but two steps from hell” Matthew 16:18b “I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” The evil we face today has brought those gates into our everyday lives. Two steps from hell, facing those…
Category: Conflict and War
Conflict and War, Culture & Social Issues, Thoughts for the Day
How We Fight…
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“I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.” J.R.R. Tolkien
Conflict and War, Conundrums, Philosophy, Politics and Government
Who Are You Really?
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Liberty – If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. Truth – In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act. George Orwell said that… These are words that challenge our commitment to both liberty and truth. Part of…
Christianity, Conflict and War, Crime and Punishment, Religion
The Truth of the Cross
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So many people view Jesus’ death on the cross at Calvary through the lens of Roman crucifixion. It’s as if that suffering alone defines Christ’s acceptance of becoming the Lamb of God and the sacrificial offering for the sin of all mankind. It is nothing of the sort. It is only the degrading container, the…
Conflict and War, Islam, Religion, Rimdims, Terrorism
Rimdims #6: Ritual Impurity
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Considering the lengths that radical Muslims go to “protect” their ritual purity (e.g. Ayatollah Khomeini, after the Iranian revolution, declared that all non-Muslims were impure. He said that to wash the clothes of non-Muslims (you have to touch them), to eat with non-Muslims (sharing food), or to use personal items touched by non-Muslims (such as…
Christianity, Conflict and War
There Are None So Lost…
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“There are none so lost as those who have misled themselves.” That is a quote from Richard Fernandez of the Belmont Club from his article “Why We Flight“. That is not a misspelling. It got me to thinking and that leads to making connections and eventually it led me back to the events of this…
Conflict and War, Culture & Social Issues, Politics and Government, Terrorism
History and Reflection
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My degree is in Ancient History. You could legitimately call me an historian, especially since I tend to view things using the tools of history. Historians depend on reflection from a distance, seeing things from a wider angle, not getting mired in the details. That is why it is hard to write an accurate history…
Christianity, Conflict and War, Religion
Implications of a Long War
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The current thinking about the confrontation between radical Islam (Sunni Wahhabism and Shi’a Islam almost across the board) and the West is that it is a long war. No matter where you fall on the political spectrum, this is a serious issue, probably the defining issue at the end of the 20th and the beginning…
Christianity, Conflict and War, Islam, Religion, Terrorism
Islam Has Ordered Us… Part II
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I never expected the original posting to have a Part II. However, in interacting with those who have responded to the first post I stumbled across a September 29, 2004 article from FrontPage Magazine titled John Quincy Adams Knew Jihad by Andrew G. Bostom. Hat tip The Cassandra Page. After reading the article, its conclusions…
Christianity, Conflict and War, Islam, Religion, Terrorism
Islam Has Ordered Us…
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“Islam has ordered us to terrorize our enemies and whoever denies that is an infidel himself.” So says the Algerian Salafist Group for Prayer and Combat (GSPC) which is a known North African Al-Qaida affiliate group as it applauded the 7-7 terrorist attacks in London and called for more attacks. See this article on the…