Post by Rev Hopkins on Sept 20, 2014 7:28:01 GMT -5
A Warning Against Apathy
ISIS has the stated goal to eliminate Christians in order to to set up a caliphate to impose the most extreme interpretation of Islam upon everyone under its control. They have also stated their goal to expand that caliphate.
To those of us living in the free world, it sounds like the far-fetched plot of some Hollywood movie. But the destruction of religious viewpoints outside of their own—and of Christianity in particular—is the central tenet of ISIS' mission. Yet any mention of the persecution of Christians, and the religious motivation of these jihadist terrorists, is discounted, ignored or even apologized for by politicians and journalists. While it may be uncomfortable in a politically correct society to point out that the desire to eradicate Christianity is driving ISIS, we fail to acknowledge it at our own peril.
ISIS has the stated goal to eliminate Christians in order to to set up a caliphate to impose the most extreme interpretation of Islam upon everyone under its control. They have also stated their goal to expand that caliphate.
To those of us living in the free world, it sounds like the far-fetched plot of some Hollywood movie. But the destruction of religious viewpoints outside of their own—and of Christianity in particular—is the central tenet of ISIS' mission. Yet any mention of the persecution of Christians, and the religious motivation of these jihadist terrorists, is discounted, ignored or even apologized for by politicians and journalists. While it may be uncomfortable in a politically correct society to point out that the desire to eradicate Christianity is driving ISIS, we fail to acknowledge it at our own peril.