Radical Response

It’s clear that ISIS is bent on killing us Americans in general and us Christians in particular. It really doesn’t matter if this is radical Islam or something else. What should be our response?

The government response should be based on its principal function to protect its citizens. Government is not there is educate us or supplement our incomes or take away our incomes or our freedoms. It’s function is protection. A government that doesn’t do that is failing in its fundamental function. There is only one way to deal with someone trying to kill you: kill them first. For those of us old enough to remember, Pearl Harbor was just on painful reminder that isolationism doesn’t work with fanatics.

As Christians, our first response should  be to convert them, but it seems a little late for that. Right Mr. Robertson?

Our response as Christians to radical Islam should be radical Christianity. That means it should not be fear and it should not be hate. We should respond by doing what we should have been doing all along. We should be radically following our Lord. We should be radically carrying out His commission. We should be radically loving, even our enemies.

Maybe the real reason for ISIS is to remind government of its real function and to get us Christians off our backsides and make us do what we should have been doing all along: get radical ourselves.

Thanks ISIS for the reminder. Now Hands Up.

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