How would I know?

    Let’s see.  Jesus didn’t take any hostages at knifepoint.  The soldiers who fought and
won the American Revolution didn’t take any hostages to force England to give the
Thirteen Colonies the freedom they demanded.

    And, despite all the nuclear waste and warheads, the Cold War was not brought to a
close by some idiot wielding an uzi on board an airplane, threatening to kill a person if the
U.S.S.R. did not surrender.

    Obviously, we should see that the logic of terrorism is skewed, if not horrendously bent
out of shape by the stupidity which fuels it.

    1.)  I have ideas to spread
    2.)  People don’t always want to listen to my ideas
    3.)  I cannot spread my ideas to dead people
    4.)  If I’m dead, I cannot spread my ideas
    ________________________________

    5.)  Therefore, to spread my ideas, I should hurt and kill people, and/or get myself
killed!

    To the terrorist, this is success, to die and become a “martyr” for a cause that only one
percent of the actual world could and would qualify to join!  Get your syllables straight,
terrorists are not "martyrs," they're "murderers!"

    But perhaps martyrdom is a good thing.

    Paul, the writer of many of the letters in the New Testament (Romans, Corinthians,
Ephesians, among others), considered martyrdom to be valuable.  So did Jesus, who died
to take away our sins.  But unlike Jesus, a terrorist does not have the power of God
backing him.  He is not granted the authority to lay down his life, only to take it up again
(John 10:18).  He is mortal, and will live only once before he dies.

    He will have murdered people, or put them in danger of death.  And all for a holy cause,
right?

    Wrong.
 

    Islamic faith is not based on killing.  At least not mainstream Islam.  Otherwise, it
would’ve spread faster, and it would’ve been just as destructive as Naziism, which was
indeed based on killing.  Nazis intended to purge the face of the earth of all who were
different from them.

    Africans, Jews, homosexuals, communists, and anybody else who was not part of the
Aryan race either had to become subject to German control, or had to be exterminated.

    And if somebody hadn’t put a stop to the condemnable madness, Hitler would’ve taken
hold of the entire world.  People who are not Aryan would not be alive today if England,
America, Canada, and other nations hadn’t put their best efforts into containing the
scourge.

    If Islam had been founded on killing those who did not believe, then why did they not
overrun all of the globe?  If Islam had been founded on killing those who did not believe,
then why the hell are they busy wasting their time?!  What’re they waiting for, if their
entire system of belief is built on killing the people who do not choose to believe?

    Obviously one could argue that not all Muslims are faithful.  One could argue that only
the “faithful” Muslims are out there killing for Allah.

    But that would go against much of the grain of worldwide belief.  There is a massive
trend, in both Western and Eastern, and other cultures, not to regard killing as the best
way to spread faith.

    And, Western or Eastern culture aside, I would NEVER, repeat, NEVER, EVER,
EVER, EVER CHOOSE TO BELIEVE IN A FAITH OR SYSTEM OF BELIEF THAT
WAS PREACHED TO ME AT GUNPOINT!!

    There are all kinds of words I’d like to type into this message to describe how I’d
respond to such a situation.  Most of the words are not words that I care to print on my
web site, and are not words a loving and God-fearing Christian man should use.
 

    So, I’ll say it in the most gentle form.  I don’t care what you say.

    If you point a gun to my head and say this:  “Believe Allah or I’ll blow your brains out.”

    Then you might as well pull the trigger, because I’m not gonna listen to you!

    If you say this:  “Now when you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre,
harp, pipes and all kinds of music, if you are ready to fall down and worship the image
I made, very good.  But if you do not worship it, you will be thrown immediately into
a blazing furnace.”

    Then you might as well kindly toss me into the furnace, because I will not worship a
"god" whose believers threaten my life.  To put it simply,

    I’d rather eat cow manure.

    I’d rather vomit.

    I’d rather be drained of my blood until my lifeless body turns cold.

    I’d rather have people spit in my face.

    I’d rather have people kick me in my face.

    I’d rather have a shotgun fired at my chest at point-blank range.

    I’d rather rot alive from the inside out.

    I’d rather burn and die at the stake.

    I’d rather take a bath in hydrochloric acid.

    I’d rather suck antimatter.
 

    I’m out of here.  I will not back away from what I believe just because of a threat.

    I don’t care if the entire United States of America is overthrown by Islamic terrorists.  I
don’t care if the President of the United States is the Antichrist.  I don’t care if I am not
the one who is threatened.

    Unfortunately, there are people around me who do not believe in God.  There are
people around me who do not know God.  If they were threatened in my place, I’m not
sure exactly what I’d do.

    But I would never bow down, or worship some other god just because the man with the
gun said so.

    Even if he and his friends can take over an entire airplane.

    Even if he and his cowardly friends can have that airplane slam itself into the World
Trade Center towers, or the Pentagon.

    Even if he and his yellow bellied, rotten egghead friends could take on the Union of
Planetary Republics and shoot Koronis’ Berkeshire right out of the sky, or sink an aircraft
carrier, or nuke my hometown.

    There aren’t enough airplanes in the world to make me change my mind.  There isn’t
enough mass in the entire Universe to turn into airplanes and make me change my mind.

    There aren’t enough bullets.

    There aren’t enough knives.

    There aren’t enough bombs.

    There aren't enough fists.

    There aren’t enough fossils.
 

    You can rest assured, whoever you are, whatever country you live in, whatever you
believe in.  I fear the LORD, God Almighty.  I fear the Father, the Son, and the Holy
Ghost.  I revere and worship the one true God.  And that leaves me no room to be afraid
of anything else!

    THEREFORE, I OUTRIGHT REFUSE TO BE TERRORIZED!!!