There is possibly no time in human existence when so much hypocrisy is at play, and affects such large populations in such a rapid time. In the USA, the discussion being ginned up has to do with owning guns. Failed policies of gun control are tragically obvious in the statistics coming out of cities like Chicago, where over five-hundred lives were ended due to gun violence last year while thousands more were wounded. While the laws of the land are already being scoffed at in order for those in power to enforce whatever they wish in their place, the USA simultaneously is arming one of the most brutal forces known in human history, Islam.
Islam began with an army pushing out of modern Saudi Arabia and sweeping across Christian lands during the seventh century. It offered death to those that would not abandon Christianity and submit to the army of Mohammad, and took so many slaves that the slave trade soon became one of the largest financial enterprises in human history. We who live in the USA find ourselves witnessing the ideals of freedom and liberty quickly eroding, while the country's leadership exports the firearms and expertise overseas fueling a condition that rivals the sweeping success of Jihad in the first centuries of Islamic conquest. Instead of the loss of Christian culture, it s the secular culture of Islam that is being swept away by force, yet Christians who can trace their family histories back to the beginnings of the Church are being murdered or forced to flee for their lives along with the cultures that they have exited in, while America watches. America is not sleeping, it is an active participant in this genocide.
As members of the Church, how do we react? Possibly the easiest solution is to say with sublime righteousness, that as Christians we are not of this world and Christ said there would be persecutions. Isn't that the safest way to get on with our isolated lives? It does absolutely nothing for those who are living without food, electricity, fuel or medical care, but it allows one to in effect blame Christianity's teachings for the suffering of the followers of Christ. How does that line of thinking reflect the teachings that what we do for those in need, we do for Christ Himself? (Matthew 7:12, Luke 6:31, Matthew 25:31-46, 1 John 4:20) How does that reflect our own journey as members of His Church when in fact, Christ is on the cross again through the suffering and martyrdom and sacrifice of His people caught under the evil acts of those Islamic forces, supported by the USA with weapons and gold, and guilty of nothing more than living in Christ?
This is not a situation where not enough is being done, because in fact nothing is being done to help these people according to those I have spoken with.. The U.N. looks the other way and the member nations of the world do the same. Nobody cries out for the Christians or their neighbors being murdered and beat into submission by the forces of radical Islam. Yet, what we are called to do is pray and witness and remember what is being done. It isn't enough to leave this up to a media that ignores the situation. It isn't enough to to let others put their lives in harm's way and once they are removed or withdrawn, we too can find ourselves in the same situation. We are witnessing, if one has the courage to look, at the remnants of Christianity being bludgeoned to death in the very cities and lands where the Church was born two-thousand years ago. As this suffering continues each day, we will be called to answer for it.
