Douglas Murray and my reply to his militant, militaristic extremism!

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How we love to think that we are God's gift to humanity!
I read every word of the Quran in 2010.  Nowhere does it say, "to ‘slay’ non–believers and chop off their heads", as Douglas Murray believes in this article.  Long, long ago I read, nearly, every single word of the Bible more than once in my evangelical and literalist, fundamentalist, 20s.

On the other hand, the Bible has 'Rules for Waging Holy War' in Deut 20 v 1-20.

The Bible has God telling the people of Israel to commit genocide in order to gain the Promised Land.

Israel gained the Promised Land a second time in 1948 by violence, by terrorism and by overthrowing the League of Nations mandate granted to Britain to rule over Palestine.  The state of Israel continues to extend its borders to more and more of the original Promised Land (Judea and Samaria) by settlement activity, in contravention of international law and the flouting of United Nations resolutions.  Yet, the righteous of the Lord view all this as part of God's plan for Israel and for the end times.  Israel's activity is of the Lord God Almighty and is a sign of His blessing.  Especially, when they win every war they fight against the Muslim Arabs!

During the 10,000 day war by the Judeao-Christian West (France and USA, with the tacit support of the UK and other western European countries), we killed and injured an unknown number of godless Communists in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.  Encylopaedias have varying figures from one to three million deaths.  Evangelist, Billy Graham went out, not to condemn the illegal occupation and war, but to give succour and comfort to the troops in Vietnam.  Not just once but twice!

We cannot blame extremist Muslims for all that bloodshed.  Nor, for the two World Wars turning the 20th century into the most destructive and bloody in the history of humanity.

We cannot blame jihadists for WMD - and, for their use, too!  The Muslim extremists see us lot as the Christian West and are not impressed with our Bible and with our Christian beliefs.  They see us as immoral and decadent.

Our slave trade was more extensive and worse in every way than the Arab slave trade.  As was our Christian Western empires around the globe that thrived not on the biblical injunction, "It is more blessed to give than to receive" but, on the old Victorian slogan, "Grab and brag; occupy and fortify!"  Not for us the silly nonsense of 'yield not to temptation for yielding is sin' (hymn lyric).  Oh no.  We always knew better than Jesus and gladly embraced the devil's offer to bow down to him so that all the kingdoms of the world would be ours!

The hated Islamic jihadists see the Judeao-Christian world and have now joined in the blood letting, the warfare and the horrors that we have visited upon the globe in every single year since, at least, as far back as 1914.  They have a long way to go to match us, the upright Brits, in that aforementioned terrible trinity of torment.  Such is man's inhumanity to man.

May God forgive US - not them!

Life for the unborn and the dying but death for the rest!!

Joan asked me for evidence, the other evening.  All I can offer is an absence of specific evangelical engagement in stopping the killing of civilians in our UK wars of aggression on first Communists and, now Muslims.

Working in the UK's major arms industry and in the armed forces has never been off limits for 95% of true, born again Christians for the last 1700 years.  Yet, it was 95% unheard of for the followers of the Way in the first 300 years.  Indeed, some Bible believing Christians (in line with Deuteronomy 20 v 1-20 and, in Joshua and Judges) argue for the extermination of Hamas, Islamic State, and all jihadists, as the West achieved over the Nazis in 1945 and as the Nazis failed to do with the Jews and the other minority groups in Germany.  All out total war is the only answer!

Yet, there are specific evangelical organisations campaigning for the life of the unborn and for the prolonging of life for those who, like me, want the option to be assisted to die in their last days or hours.  No evangelical campaigning organisation for the poor civilians in the prime of life, who don't want their life ended, who get cut down by our immoral but so well-meaning and foolish foreign policy!  Hence, my jaundiced thinking now, compared with my young, know it all, idealistic, Westhill days of Eric Rolls rightly calling my RE teaching "dogmatic and doctrinaire".  I did not last long!