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"I'm afraid Obama is going to change our country into a Muslim country," said Melody Edwall,
Coming from Colorado Springs, I don't know why I was particularly shocked by this statement made by a member of the New Life Church. I have some experience with that church, having sung at a couple of high profile (police) funerals there. Being a practicing Catholic, these were somewhat surreal experiences. My interactions with church administrators/employees were very gracious; and of course, being a Catholic, one who is not really considered "christian" by many fundamentalist denominations, I would not have been privy to such radical statements.
And, radical is just what that statement is. If you believe or even academically acknowledge the Old Testament, you will admit that even the biblical writers upheld the belief that God did not deny His relationship with any of his created peoples. Israel was His "first born", but, God did proclaim, through Abraham and Jacob, that Ishmael and Esau would be the fathers of great nations. But, it appears the radical sects of the religious denominations, who uphold the Old Testament, do not follow in God's path. Radical Israel denies the existence of a Palestinian state, radical Muslims seek to destroy Israel, Christians and anyone else deemed heathen, and, apparently, members of the New Life Church believe Baraq Obama will dismantle the constitution and turn this country into a Muslim state.
There is no difference between radical Muslims who seek to destroy the western world, because they perceive us as trying to destroy their theocracies and turn them into good, democratic countries, and radical Christians, who think that Obama is going Muslimize America. Illogically, unreasonably, unbelievably absurd. But, radicals, from any hemisphere, are all the same.
