That's the slight problem with "outreach to Muslims" --one of Rick Warren's
latest
bright ideas. Their idea of outreach --not all, for sure, just some--
may be to
blow up your church, or blow up yourself, or blow up anything Christian
that happens to be in the neighborhood. And it doesn't take all of them
to do some serious damage, like killing people. A few will suffice.
1 % will suffice globally, which is the approximate pool that the
hard cases can draw upon for serious violence. Trouble is that
1 % of a billion is a lot of zealots willing to cut off your head.
Where do they get the idea that it is a "moral good" to do so ?
Hmmm, let me think. There must be some source of this idea.........
{ Sarcasm of my own }
Billy
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message dated 9/25/2011 7:38:51 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
The "Religion of Peace" strikes again.
David
"Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than
people do is a swine."--P. J. O’Rourke
On 9/25/2011 1:52 PM, [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) wrote:
Christian Post
_Rick Warren: Suicide Bomber Attacks Saddleback's Sister Church in
Indonesia_
(http://www.christianpost.com/news/rick-warren-suicide-bomber-attacks-saddlebacks-sister-church-in-indonesia-56451/)
Sun, Sep. 25, 2011 Posted: 10:24 AM EDT
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A suicide bomber has attacked an Indonesia church affiliated with Rick
Warren's Saddleback Church in Southern California, killing at least two people
and injuring several others.
In a "Purpose Drive Network Alert" published on his _Facebook page_
(http://www.facebook.com/pastorrickwarren/posts/10150394826920903) and
_Twitter
account_ (http://twitter.com/#!/RickWarren/status/117833767577587713) ,
Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, alerted followers to the
attack in the early hours of Sunday morning.
He wrote: "Purpose Driven Network Alert: Our sister church in Solo City,
Indonesia, Bethel Full Gospel Church, has just been bombed."
The attack in Solo, Indonesia, came as throngs of worshippers were
preparing to leave after gathering Sunday at Bethel Full Gospel Church (also
referred to as Church Bethel Injil) in the capital city of Java.
According to police, the unidentified suicide bomber died in the attack,
and an injured worshipper succumbed to injuries at a hospital. At least 17
people were believed to have been injured.
One worshipper, Kristano, told AFP, "I was about to head home when a very
loud explosion shocked me. A crowd of people from inside the church rushed
to the streets."
Kristano added, "They were screaming and very hysterical. The peaceful
Sunday has quickly become a chaotic situation."
According to an AFP correspondent, the bomber, believed to have blown
himself up directly in front of the church, was wearing a white shirt and
black
pants and had his left hand severed.
The attack was apparently captured by church surveillance cameras and
officials expect to use the footage to identify the gunman, Australian news
agency ABC News reports.
Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, allows for religious
freedom with its constitution. However, religious tensions occasionally
flare in the Asian country, with Christians being targeted.
On Sept. 11, six people were killed and an estimated 80 injured after
violent clashes between Christians and Muslims in Ambon.
On Aug. 28, armed attackers stormed a Christian neighborhood in the same
city, killing at least 12 people.
Conflicts between Christians and Muslims between 1999 and 2002 have left
more than 5,000 people dead and half a million people displaced, according
to BBC News.
Indonesia President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has condemned Sunday's attack
on Bethel Full Gospel Church, calling it "terrorism."
The city of Solo is also radical Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir's
hometown. Bashir is considered the spiritual leader for the group that killed
more
than 200 people in Bali in 2002, according to media reports.
The Christian Post was unable to reach Saddleback Church for comment and
for greater clarification on its relationship with Bethel Full Gospel Church
in Solo by press time.
Nicola Menzie
Christian Post Reporter
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