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Watch the video and decide for yourself.
It is all I can ask.
People we must do what is right.
. . . From the Rooftops!!
I just read this and we must do something. We cant just passively be polictically correct any longer. We must have a call to action, we must respond. This is a Holy War.
A woman was killed in Kabul, and I quote “Zabiullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, claimed responsibility for the slaying, saying the woman was killed because she was spreading Christianity.”
Recently I was having a chat with what seemed like a rational guy about The Right to Keep and Bear Arms (english grammar snobs, I capitalized it because I think its important.) He declared that Christians are legally insane. Even named the pathological problem. I know this mode of thought has been around awhile, but when do we draw a line and say “It stops here, we can retreat no further?” I have always heard that if Christians were persecuted we would stand up and fight, that it would be like squeezing a handful of sand. My question is “When do we say enough is enough?”
Do we wait till our country has fallen into socialism? Do we wait till we have to register our churches, or worse? How long before we have our children taken away because we dared teach them in our home and from the Bible. When will we have our fill, where is the line?
I submit, It is our country the last great haven for Christians around the world. We need to start fighting and voting, and just plain ol gettin mad. Lets start standing up for what we believe. We must stand from the Rooftops (albeit virtually) and shout “Jesus Christ hates sin, gave His own life for Sinners, I must do no less. This is our town, our country, and Jesus lives here because He lives in me. The love of Jesus Christ is what you folk need, its the only thing that can truly save this planet.”
I am pasting the contents of the article here just in case it goes away.
Taliban kill Christian aid worker in Afghanistan By AMIR SHAH – 53 minutes ago
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Taliban gunmen on a motorbike killed a Christian aid worker in the Afghan capital on Monday, and the militant group said it had targeted the woman because she was proselytizing.
The woman, a British national, worked with handicapped Afghans and was killed in the western part of Kabul as she was walking alone around 8 a.m., police said. Najib Samsoor, a district police chief, originally said the woman was from South Africa, but the British government later said she was British.
The gunmen shot the victim in the body and leg with a pistol, said Interior Ministry spokesman Zemeri Bashary. Officials did not release her name.
Zabiullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, claimed responsibility for the slaying, saying the woman was killed because she was spreading Christianity.
“This woman came to Afghanistan to teach Christianity to people of Afghanistan,” Mujahid told the Associated Press. “Our (leaders) issued a decree to kill this woman. This morning our people killed her in Kabul.”
The woman’s organization — SERVE, Serving Emergency Relief and Vocational Enterprises — describes itself as a Christian charity registered in Britain. The group’s Web page says the charity has been working with Afghan refugees since 1980 in Pakistan.
“SERVE Afghanistan’s purpose is to express God’s love and bring hope by serving the people of Afghanistan, especially the needy, as we seek to address personal, social and environmental needs,” SERVE’s Web page says.
Afghanistan is a conservative Islamic nation and has little tolerance for outside religious interference. Proselytizing is prohibited by law, and other Christian missionaries or charities have faced severe hostilities.
Last summer a group of 23 South Korean aid workers from a church group were taken hostage in southern Afghanistan. Two were killed and the rest were released.
In 2001, eight international aid workers, including two Americans, were imprisoned and charged with preaching Christianity. The eight were freed by Afghan mujahedeen fighters attacking the Taliban after the U.S.-led invasion.
In 2006, an Afghan man who converted from Islam to Christianity was sentenced to death by an Afghan court. Following an international outcry Afghan authorities declared the man insane and he was granted asylum in Italy, where he now lives.
Monday’s attack adds to a growing sense of insecurity in Kabul. The capital is now blanketed in police checkpoints. Embassies, military bases and the U.N. are erecting cement wall barriers to guard against suicide bombings.
Kidnappings targeting wealthy Afghans have long been a problem in Kabul, but attacks against Westerners in the city and surrounding provinces have also increased recently. In mid-August, Taliban militants killed three women working for the U.S. aid group International Rescue Committee while they were driving in Logar, a province south of Kabul.
Meanwhile, assault helicopters dropped NATO troops into Jalrez district of Wardak province on Thursday, leading to a two-day battle involving airstrikes in which more than 20 militants were killed, the military alliance said in a statement Monday.
Wardak province, just 40 miles west of Kabul, has become an insurgent stronghold on the doorsteps of the capital.
Militants have expanded their traditional bases in the country’s south and east — on the border with Pakistan — and have gained territory in the provinces surrounding Kabul, a worrying development for Afghan and NATO troops.
Those advances are part of the reason that top U.S. military officials have warned that the international mission to defeat the Taliban is in peril, and why NATO generals have called for a sharp increase in the number of troops here.
Some 65,000 international troops now operate in Afghanistan, including around 32,000 Americans.
Wildfire Weekend
FireProof
Dont Poke the Bear
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. “
I will argue with no man about who should have a right to “keep and bear arms.” Man has defended himself since we were first put on the planet a few years back. Its instinctual, native, and part of being human. Did God want us to own guns? I’ll ask when we meet.
I am proud that this week the Supreme Court decided to actually read the constitution. It’s refreshing when the system works, it often doesnt, but this week it did.
What gets me is that people seem to believe that owning a gun, or a weapon, means Im going to go out and do harm, to myself or others. This is weird, crazy talk.
Lets take a moment and review factual things: A firearm does one thing and it does it very dependably and reliably, it rams a projectile down a barrel.
And it does that every time we use it.
I have a firearm to protect myself, my family, and those around me. I am proficient with its usage, I am of sound mind and I am a good citizen. I keep my ‘arms’ locked up when not in use, safe from young, curious hands. However a firearm is just one of many tools that I use to protect my family. Where we live, the house, our dogs, the alarm system, are all devices that we employ to protect us from harm.
Please dont bore me with statistics that dont mean anything. If your the kind of person that allows numbers with no real context or meaning to influence you, robots will be replacing you soon I suppose.
And if you ever try and take shelter in a cave in winter and find a sleeping bear, dont poke it.
This article by Ted Nugent does a pretty good job of summing up the situation.
Jerry Falwell Dies at 73
You can find more detail about it here.
As some of you know, I attended Liberty University from 1989 to 1994 (yes, I packed a four year degree into five). My dad called and my friend Kevin emailed me to tell me of the news about Falwell’s passing.
But you know, after reading all the hate, and all the blogs smashing on him, I decided I would add another post about Falwell.
First, He was a man. He had balls of steel. He feared no man, not even Phil Donahue. He shamelessly went on talk shows, and TV shows knowing why they had invited him and when they spewed their bile (as they are now that he is dead) he smiled and said “son, you need Jesus” and that was IT. How many men do YOU know, even amongst christians who stand up for their beliefs?
Second, He loved his God. You know, I dont even have to write about this because we know it to be true. He rose every morning at 4:30 AM to pray to his God and study His word. He lived it.
Third, Summer of my freshman year, I was walking back to my dorm and I saw his black suburban driving by. I thumbed him, you know ‘hitched’ a ride. Dang if he didnt stop and give me a ride. He asked my name and where I was from and a few questions about Liberty. Years later I ran into him with my wife and he sucker punched me (as he did most of us students) said “David, from Georgia right?” I met him more than a dozen times, played in his orchestra (Tuba) for several years and of all the thousands of folks that he knew. I was one of them. And I knew it.
I will be a LU grad for all time. And I wont ever let anyone forget it either.