Okay, you've seen it elsewhere. The Scimitar radicals want to wipe the "worshippers of the cross" from the face of the earth. So what? Jews have had to face this kind of vituperation and violence - often from Christians, by the way - for centuries too.It reminds me of the anthropologist who underwent a hallucinogenic trip under the tutelage of a South American medicine man. During the episode, he met gigantic reptilian creatures who told him they lived around the world and were biding their time until the right moment came. Then they would take over the world.
When the anthropologist emerged from his stupor, he told the medicine man about the creatures and their threats.
"Psh," the medicine man said. "They always say that."
The primitive sacred hands out little violence kits not only to the practitioners within the Scimitar. But, obviously, among Hindu, etc., as well.
The Christian faith, on the other hand, gives us freedom to love God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit - a Trinity of self-donating Persons - and our neighbor as ourselves. Even if they happen to be murderous exemplars of the reptilian primitive sacred, and our enemies.
Now THAT is freedom indeed.
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