Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Religion warfare

I read this and pondered:

Troops on the U.S.' largest base in Afghanistan have inadvertently burned Qurans and other religious materials, triggering angry protests and fears of even larger demonstrations as news of the burning spreads.The books were mistakenly thrown out with the trash at Bagram Air Field north of Kabul and were on a burn pile Monday night before Afghan laborers intervened around 11:00 p.m., according to NATO and Afghan officials.
By the morning, hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside of Bagram and on the outskirts of Kabul. Some shot into the air, some threw rocks at the Bagram gate, and others yelled, "Die, die foreigners." Many of them were the same people who work with foreign troops inside the base. At one point, apparently worried that the base would be stormed, guards at the base fired rubber bullets into the crowd, according to the military. They should leave Afghanistan rather than disrespecting our religion, our faith," Mohammad Hakim told the Associated Press outside of Bagram. "They have to leave and if next time they disrespect our religion, we will defend our holy Quran, religion and faith until the last drop of blood has left in our body."

Clearly they believe differently than do we Christians, but I wonder why they believe so strongly and yet we are so non-passionate about our faith. We struggled to even talk about it, as a new friend told me the other day. She said that in the North, no one talks about their faith openly. I wonder how the Great Commission is followed then.

What should be our methods of showing a passionate love of  Christ? Should we? Is it up to the individual or do we get pushed by the leadership of the church into being missionaries to the ones around us who do not know Christ?

Makes you wonder if the "religion wars" have already been lost by our own lack of effort.

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