Multiculturalism forbidden
Submitted by Wayne on Tue, 2007-07-31 09:05.
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America is supposedly the great melting pot, structured so any culture may assimilate into ours, right? Wrong! Many worldviews are simply incompatible with each other, including Christianity. For example, Christianity is absolutely incompatible with Islam. Freedom of religion, then, must be limited to compatible worldviews. The Lord knew this, too, when He led His people into the promised land. In Exodus 23:33, He told His people to not allow the pagans to live in the land, because of the corruption that would surely follow. Can modern America be any more of a poster child of this dire warning?
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logical and factual errors
Submitted by Wayne on Mon, 2007-08-06 21:53.
The western world invaded and colonized the Americas...
This is patently untrue, a fabrication of America-haters. The Christian pilgrims and settlers of the New World legally bought their land from the natives and lived quite peaceably with them.
If the U.S. has a right to keep Muslims out, then all other countries have a right to keep Christians out. ...
This is the logic of universalism, relativism, and liberalism. This suggests the worldviews of Christianity and Islam are on par with one another. Nothing could be further from the truth. Christianity, rightly understood and lived, is truth, the only truth. Islam is a false religion, worshiping a false god, bent on destruction.
But even if this logical error were taken to heart--that these two worldviews are equally valid--examine Muslim nations. They do indeed keep Christians out for the most part. Those that don't outright kick Christians out simply persecute Christians until they leave. This persecution includes destruction of businesses and homes, kidnapping, and murder. According to this logic, we inherit the right to do the same immoral things to Muslims here in America that Muslims do to Christians in other countries.
I find the xenophobia of Muslims and Christians alarming...
Muslims recognize a fact few Christians do: Islam and Christianity are mutually exclusive. They conflict at their very hearts and cannot abide one another. In this regard, Muslims have a better grip on reality than most Western Christians. It is not a fear of other cultures that dictates this incompatibility; the incompatibility is inherent in the very nature of the worldviews. Muslims have good reason to fear Christians, for Christianity has been responsible for bringing civilization and morality to the world, a significant threat to the lies of Islam. Christians, on the other hand, need not fear Islam; we just need to recognize that Muslims who subscribe to their foundational texts (e.g., Koran) intend to kill us, speeding us on our way to heaven. But they also intend to rob countless others of opportunities to hear the Gospel and choose salvation that Christ offers.
...intolerance ultimately leads to persecution and genocide...
Also untrue. We do not tolerate murder, yet this intolerance of immoral behavior does not itself lead to "persecution and genocide". Crime is not to be tolerated. Insofar as Godly authority is granted, crime must never be tolerated. As governments have been instituted by God specifically to punish evildoers, worldviews which incorporate immoral behavior into their foundation (e.g., Islam) must not be tolerated by those God-ordained governments.
It's a simple matter, really. If you want to come to America, live by America's Judeo-Christian rules. The foundational principles of Islam conflict with this, as it deigns to conquer all other lands and replace God's Law with sharia. Jews and Christians must be slaughtered. All non-Muslims must be converted by the sword. These are the founding principles of Islam.
Having said this, there are Muslims who, quite frankly, aren't very good Muslims because they deny these foundational principles of their false religion. This is to their credit. Insofar as their behavior does not conflict with God's Law, they are indeed to be tolerated.
That is the job of preachers...
But they're not doing it! By and large, American preachers who claim to be followers of the Lord are completely failing in naming evil for what it is. And as far as our leaders claim to be Christian, too, they cannot leave their Christianity--their sole grip on reality--at home when they head to the office. They, too, must denounce evil and punish evildoers, including Muslims who practice their false religion according to their own scriptures.
Point of fact, America's highest law of the land, the Constitution, is still held subject to God's Law (Natural Law as the Founding Fathers rightly called it). While we can debate whether or not this nation was founded at God's direction (and I think there's plenty of room for debate), the principle God demonstrates in His Word in warning His people about allowing pagans to live among them has been amply demonstrated by the methodical destruction of Godly law here. The destruction of God's people here will soon follow.
Old vs. New Dispensation
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men. (Romans 12:18, KJV)
The western world invaded and colonized the Americas without a directive from God, unlike the Israelites who had a mandate to literally take no prisoners. And, as much as I believe the United States was founded with a Judeo-Christian ethic in mind, it is not a Theocracy like Israel was. If the U.S. has a right to keep Muslims out, then all other countries have a right to keep Christians out.
I find the xenophobia of Muslims and Christians alarming, for it is a sword that cuts both ways. For example, every day my public school first grade class met, we stood, bowed our heads, closed our eyes, and had prayer. That was 1960. Today, public school prayer has been abolished and I, for one, do not want it to return. Why? Because then equal time will have to be granted to every recognized religion, as well as some groups that are neither recognized nor religious--or outright pagan or anti-God, to have equal time.
We, meaning Americans, cannot be isolationists, for just as no man lives unto himself, and no man dies unto himself, no nation lives or dies unto itself, either. Nor can we, again meaning Americans, be the world's policeman or superhero, or tell other nations had they should conduct themselves. I simply do not see that as a directive for our nation from God. Individuals, however, should denounce leaders who plunder their countries, abuse its populace, or give comfor and aid to those who do. That is the job of preachers, just as John the Baptizer denounced Herod.
As well-intentioned as it might be, intolerance ultimately leads to persecution and genocide, as history records so many times. I see it as basically telling a group of people to go to Hell, and then helping them to get there.
Radical thinking? Undoubtedly. Naive? Perhaps. Overly simplistic? Probably. But the verse I quoted says "as much as lieth in you". There are, indeed, limits. I just don't think we have reached that point...yet.