Obviously, any non-american reader of this web site would think I had just cooked up
the fattest, juiciest lie in the world.  America, the beautiful, right?

    The land where abortions are performed daily.

    ...Where members of the Ku Klux Klan used to be free to lynch African Americans.

    ...Where people can be addicted to any of the following:  gambling, cocaine, crack, pot,
heroin, violence, and all sorts of evil.

    ...Where our politicians commit adultery instead of setting an example.

    ...Where Madeline Albright says we should fill a role as being the police of the world. 
She and her message were shouted down at Ohio State University in 1998, when
attempting to drum up support for former President Bill Clinton’s foreign policies.
 

    No.  The United States of America is not the best country in the world.  It has no
monopoly on democracy and freedom of speech.  It does not hold the monopoly on the
best educational system, the best medical care system, or the best technology in the world.
 

    So, when I heard that somebody had said this: “how dare they [those terrorists] do this
to us [America]?” following the brutal terrorist act that came on 11  September  2001, I
had to do something about this.  I had to say something.

    First of all, there was a major attitude problem in the heart of the person who originated
this line.  America is no more and no less deserving of criticism or terrorism.  This is
because all nations have problems.  Because every person in the entire world fails to meet the
exacting standards of God, all nations also fail to meet the exacting standards of God.

    “...All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” (Romans 3: 23)

    Not just all people, but all Nations have fallen from the glory of God.

    Our entire world has been corrupted by sin, including the nations whose people follow
Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, atheism, and every other religion that exists.  This is the
deepest and heaviest weight, and it sinks all nations.

    The only nation which can stand up to God’s standards is the nation which is built on
the principles of the Lord.  Ancient Israel occasionally lined up with the standards of the Old
Testament, but they also strayed like all the other nations.
 

    So, the question “how dare those terrorists attack us?” has an attitude problem.

    That is because terrorism has violated the law of the Ten Commandments...

    “YOU SHALL NOT MURDER! (Exodus 20:13, exclamation and capitals are my revision)”

    The question of “how dare those terrorists do this?” is a question which the LORD God,
ruler of the Universe, is allowed to ask.  From heaven, HE calls the thunder and the rain. 
HE calls out each star by its name at night.  HE holds power over an endless dominion,
an everlasting kingdom that we cannot see.

    It is HIS voice which should cry out in anger.

    It is HIS place to judge, and it is HIS place to avenge.

    HE would have said:

    “HOW DARE THESE PEOPLE KILL THE INNOCENT?  WHO ARE THESE MEN
THAT KILL AND MAIM WHEN MY SON PREACHED LOVE?”

    Prophets would have spoken out against these terrorists, saying that the wrath of God
would be upon them.  Their voice would be added to the outcry, not against the mass
murder of Americans, but of the mass murder of people in general.

    As a good example of something gone too far, take a look at Jehu (II Kings 9).  The
prophet Elisha ordered one of his followers to say this to Jehu:  “This is what the LORD
says: ‘I anoint you king over Israel.’ (verse 3)”  This is what Elisha’s follower said to Jehu
instead of what he should have said:

        This is what the LORD, the God of Israel says:  "I anoint you king over the LORD’s people
        Israel.  You are to destroy the house of Ahab your master, and I will avenge the blood of my
        servants the prophets and the blood of all the LORD’s servants shed by Jezebel.  The whole 
        house of Ahab will perish.  I will cut off from Ahab every last male in Israel--slave or free.  I 
        will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam son of Nebat and like the house of 
        Baasha son of Ahijah.  As for Jezebel, dogs will devour her on the plot of ground at Jezreel, 
        and no one will bury her."  (verses 6 to 10)

    I don’t know how that sounded to you, but it sure sounded like a lot more was said the
second time around.  Elisha’s follower went over the deep end, talking to Jehu when he
was instructed to say one thing and then leave.  People who support terrorism are just like
prophets who say too much.  It’s one thing to give time and money to a charity.  It is an
entirely different thing for a person to give time and money to an organization that works
to kill people.

    This is the same brand of evil that propelled Naziism.  After all, how did Hitler get his
funding?  He didn’t just walk into the Reichstag one day and ask the Chancellor for a few
million deutche marks.  He had to get them from somewhere else until the Nazi Party
could integrate itself into the German government.
 

    We are all creations.  We all have a creator, the Lord, who gives life to us each day. 
The terrorists took away life, stole it from the hand of God.  They prescribed death
sentences to people who the LORD may have spared with mercy.  They condemned the
innocent and prevented sinners from repenting, returning to God, and being saved from
sin.  They have cut off in the middle something that should have gone on for days, weeks,
months, or even years longer than it had.

    The terrorists did this all in the name of Allah.

    As I said in the page before, I do not choose to believe any person who tries to scare
me into accepting his ideas.  And I refuse to believe in any 'god' just because my life is
threatened.