[CS-FSLUG] OT: My wife is from this small town in NY.

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Ed Hurst wrote:
> I assert there is an indirect link which is not hidden, but unstated. 
> Most of these articles are aimed at promoting warfare which, in part, 
> operates from the blanket condemnation of Muslims as inherently evil. 
> It's a sort of, "they aren't worth saving." That they do not directly 
> encourage nuking all Islamic countries in the same article where they 
> breathlessly decry what evil plots Muslims have for us is just part of 
> the game.

Oh, I dunno about all that.  My take is a little bit different.  I don't 
think Muslims are inherently evil any more than anyone else - we are all 
born that way, and Muslims are the people.  What certainly is evil to 
its core, though, is Islam, which demands and drives its followers by 
force if necessary to carry out its evil plans, which include 
extinguishing any other religion from the earth, by force if necessary. 
  Painting Islam in any other light is incorrect by their definition and 
the Christian one as well, plain and simple.

So how far do we all go in spreading the Gospel to Muslims?  As far as 
possible without "casting our pearls before swine".  What do I mean by 
that?  Well, there has got to be a point of diminishing return there 
somewhere.  Would I give my life for a Muslim?  I dunno - maybe if God 
really impressed upon me to do so.  Would I sacrifice my family?  No 
way.  This is the very kind of decision many Christians face when 
dealing with Muslims.  V.O.M. reminds us that Christians in Islamic 
nations are hunted down and murdered like that all the time and Islam is 
ever on the advance not only in 3rd world countries, but increasingly so 
in the US/UK and all across Europe too.

Definitely something to think about right?

--Rev. Linc.