September Eleventh

I seem to be always apologizing for the time interval between postings.

I will catch you up on what has been happening in my life in the next one.

This posting concerns recent events and September 11th. As we commemorate that devastating event, we need to also evaluate our current environment.

First, we have the example of the Reverend Terry Jones, pastor of Dove World Outreach Center, a fifty member non-denominational charismatic Christian church in Gainesville, Florida. He is not a licensed minister. He called for Quran burning and promised to burn them on September 11th. It didn’t happen, but it did anger the Muslim world.

Next, we have the Reverend Billy Graham’s son Franklin. He is an ordained minister and the current head of the Billy Graham Foundation. He is much more dangerous than the “fruit loop” from Gainesville. Franklin Graham wields real power and has a world-wide congregation. He did something that his father never did. He distorted truth and implied that Barak Obama was a Muslim, by virtue that his father was a Muslim. This repudiates his whole theology of free will. It was done not out of ignorance, but with the sole purpose of political gain for his conservative friends. Graham has at various times said that Islam is “a very evil and wicked religion”, that it is a religion of hatred. It’s a religion of war”, and saying that building the cultural center near Ground Zero means the Muslims “will now claim that the World Trade Center Property…is Islamic land.” Shame on you Reverend Graham.

Now, on this day of such national sorrow we need thoughtful solutions that will allow Muslims, Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, and all others to live in peace and harmony. If we can’t find a solution our planet will not survive. Peace and Love!

That’s all for now…see you next time!