Is the West being slow-cooked by a resurgence of Islamic fervor across the globe, responding to individual attacks by separate groups but refusing to engage in the wider battle?

One of Christianity's most widely respected thinkers and erudite apologists says that is exactly the case.

In an op-ed titled "Is Paris Burning," Ravi Zacharias says Europe, America and the entire free world are being lied to by their politicians and most of their media, who refuse to ask the appropriate questions and brand those who dare to do so with nasty labels.

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"In one Middle Eastern country, an awful thing happened. Two young Muslims turned atheists were on a program. They argued for the reality that blood had been spilled across the centuries and that there was no denying that from its earliest days to the present, this was the same blood-letting in the name of the belief as originally given and carried out. Then one of them asked the cleric a question that was as pointed as could be. It was a powerful question with an irrefutable fact within the question. The question laid bare a reality that was deemed blasphemous. The next day that man and his family were murdered, just for asking a fact-laden question that was unanswerable without conceding the truth. For that, he and his family paid with their lives.

"That's the depravity of our age. It is death to ask the pointed question because the answer, if true, betrays the real truth. The masquerade is on and it is deadly. We watch hundreds die. We hear speeches full of distortions; we tolerate deceit and even reward it. Some in power and in the public eye whitewash the reality while the blood of the murdered cries out from the ground. Our children and grandchildren will inherit the whirlwind because our media pundits and misguided speech-makers have sown to the wind by trading in lives for their power."

Zacharias says there is hope even in the midst of the reigning lie.

"The lie has a shelf life. The truth abides forever," he said. "God can even conquer through our perversion."


Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/11/top-christian-voice-west-being-taken-down-in-small-portions/#j1YHymlOc5FX7wXK.99

(This man is one of my favorite theologians.  He is a brilliant intellectual.)

Kroz he's right on. Only I'd say it's worse than that, what with liberals insisting both politically and within the church, that we as a society tolerate the very things God specifically states we are not to even be around, let alone partaking of.

Quote from: daidalos on November 28, 2015, 01:34:06 PM
Kroz he's right on. Only I'd say it's worse than that, what with liberals insisting both politically and within the church, that we as a society tolerate the very things God specifically states we are not to even be around, let alone partaking of.

That is correct.  The psuedo-church is guilty as charged! 

Only the true church will endure.

And with God all things are possible!  We must not lose hope and faith.

Quote from: kroz on November 28, 2015, 01:38:12 PM
That is correct.  The psuedo-church is guilty as charged! 

Only the true church will endure.

And with God all things are possible!  We must not lose hope and faith.

Amen