In the Face of Islamic Terror- It’s Time to Ask What You Believe

Learning from Indiana Jones, when the bullet entered his father, and his own loved one was threatened he remembered his faith. That is when his faith (which had been lying dormant) kicked into gear. That is when he went through the ordeal that led him to the Holy Grail.

Do you remember the ordeal. It had three steps. 1. Penitence 2. listening to the Word of God 3. The Step of Faith.

Radical Islam will not be defeated by milquetoast, lily livered liberalism. It will not be defeated by an atheistic ideology of cowardice disguised at tolerance.

Radical Islam will only be defeated by Radical Christianity. However, radical Christianity is not the same as Radical Islam–just substituting a cross for the crescent.

Instead Radical Christianity is a religion of radical, self sacrificial love, justice, beauty, goodness and peace.

If there are Christian warriors they must be men of deep faith, vibrant spirituality and joy in the life of Christ. If they go to war they do so as a last resort, full of hatred for bloodshed and willing at all times to show mercy and to show the path of ultimate reconciliation and peace.

This can only be accomplished with a religion that overwhelms radical Islam not with force of arms, but with a radical force known only to christianity–the radical force of the Holy Spirit in the world.

The only way this terror will be defeated therefore is for the Men of the West to finally ask ourselves what we believe.

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