Scottyboy is home.
Thanks for the comments on my first post. I was curious as to how, or if, anyone would respond.
Let me help with some of your thoughts.
First, there will indeed be intelligent conversation here. I'm a longtime editor and political columnist for a newspaper, and I know the issues well.
I have no chip on my shoulder. But I believe what I believe, and I make no apologies for it.
I'll say what I mean, and I'll be able to back up every word.
Speaking of the Word, I read it often and I live by it.
Do I believe in the Darwin theory of evolution? C'mon. It takes more faith to believe in that stuff than it does to believe in Christ.
I wrote a column about that years ago. It's called, "Teach evolution as fact? C'mon" if you can find it on the Web.
It's interesting to note that the theory of evolution has evolved more than breeds within a species.
Now for the blog on Abdul Rahman.
What a conundrum this has caused! How will everyone (mainly liberals) react to the Afghan turned Christian?
Being in the media, I've already heard how some see it. They're confused. In one sense, they have little sympathy for a Christian. After all, we Christians go against all they hold dear and true. But they also see a failed mission in Afghanistan. Once again, chorus, "Bush failed." Many are surely thinking, "Why did we go in there if there's still oppression?"
That's a good question. Karzai four years ago said he'd stick to Islamic law. You should read up on some of that law — scary stuff.
It's simple: We went in for the right reasons. That's because as a free society, we can reason. We did it, and we should have done it. But now we all wonder why a poor Afghan, although he's likely to be freed for the sake of Karzai saving face, could ever be brought to trial in the first place.
Look it: These are the moderate Muslims. Imagine how it was under the Taliban and under such monsters as Iran's new head.
Let this be a wake-up call. These are not nice people. We can reason: They can't and won't
I wish they all would be saved. Some will, just as Abdul Rahman was. But many are evil — pure West-hating, women-oppressing, Christian-despising, Jew-murdering monsters.
We can't reason with them because good can't reason with evil. Evil must be defeated.
Let this be a wake-up call to the Bush administration, as well.
Abdul Rahman is only one man among many like him. He just happens to be getting noticed, perhaps because his own family turned him in.
As we can see from the moderate Muslims (oxymoron, in my view), Christianity is hated. And liberals beware: They hate you more.
That brings us to a hardliner — Iran's president. I'm convinced he's one of the hostage takers in the late 1970s.
Forget diplomacy. Forget the United Nations. Like that scares him. I'm sure he's thinking, "Oh, no. Not a U.N. resolution."
Even if we try, Israel won't delay. And they shouldn't. Just as they took out Iraq's nuke program years ago, Iran's surely will not survive.
Wake up and smell the turbins!
Scottyboy gone!