War of Religions

It has always been interesting to me how religion tends to have an extreme polarizing effect on the people that subscribe to them. Most recently this has come up with a local mega-church in Colorado Springs, New Life.

Thanks to Non-Prophet who always provides excellent info and reading here is a tid-bit of what the pastors at the church have to say about Muslims:

"Rob Brendle told me that he believes that France, Spain and Sweden are already hopelessly lost and shall become Islamic Republics within 15 years. He says that the rest of Europe may very well soon follow and that we are at risk of the same right here. Ted Haggard himself has been quoted as saying, “My fear, is that my children will grow up in an Islamic state.”

Rob Brendle told me that the Islamic people in Europe are breeding furiously. He said something like, I probably have this only slightly wrong, 90% of kids born in France are born into Islamic families. He also said that once the Islamic folks figure out that they can get into this country they will, just like the Mexicans. He didn't mark any of that as confidential."

If these reports from Non-Prophet are accurate - and I have no reason to believe they are not, since Rob has been quick to post personally if incorrect statements/information have been attributed to him - it highlights something I view as a serious issue within religous communities.

In times as our country finds themselves, the last thing anyone needs is people striking up religous fervor, based off of erroneuos information, and painting people of opposing faiths as the enemy.

We should be working towards building understand between these two distinctly different groups of people, not helping to widen the gap.

Ultimately it never ceases to amaze me that the same evangelical christians who become angry and take offense when they are grouped in with radical christian groups who believe all gays should be executed, can turn around and paint all muslims as radical extremists bent on murdering, raping, and destroying all the infidel christians.