I join with many past and future Miss America wannabes in declaring that I, too, desire world peace. I would love world peace. My God Jesus Christ is called The Prince of Peace. So that proves, right there, that I’m all in for peace.
I guess the biggest thing getting in the way of world peace is religion. If everyone was the same religion, world peace could probably actually happen.
But people are definitely not the same religion. So that’s a problem.
It’s those stupid Muslims!
The problem with Muslims is that they think their God is the one true God. It’s insane. And what makes it triply insane is that no Muslim will be really happy until everyone else in the world is Muslim. It’s an important part of their faith! They’re absolutely convinced that God’s plan is for everyone in the world to become Muslim—or suffer the terrible consequences!
What can you do with maniacs like that? How is it not so obvious to them that God’s plan is for everyone in the world to become Christian—or suffer the terrible consequences! We know that’s true! It’s an important part of our faith!
Those people are just so very, very stubborn.
Well, with regards to realizing world peace—which, again, I really, really want to see happen; I almost feel like Jesus commanded all of his followers to do their darndest to help make it happen—we’ve very definitely got ourselves a conundrum here. Because the bottom line is that we Christians won’t be happy until all the Muslims in the world are Christian, and the Muslims won’t be happy until all the Christians in the world are Muslim.
And all of the people who aren’t either one of those two religions probably isn’t going to be all that keen to give up whatever religion they are, either.
Plus, there’s two different kinds of Christians. Over half of the Christians in the world are Catholic! There’s over one billion of them!
So I guess all the Miss America contestants should really come up with a less impossible goal than world peace. I guess Peace on Earth can’t possibly happen until the end of time, when all that stuff that’s supposed to happen at the End Times finally does. I guess until then death and mayhem based on religious differences will continue to be the norm.
Bummer.
Wouldn’t it be great to experience Peace on Earth right here during Today Times? But I guess all the Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, atheists and whatever else are just too ignorant to ever let that happen.
You’d think God would have made it so that everyone believed in the right religion, wouldn’t you? How easy it would have been for God to have everyone naturally agree on worshiping the right version of him!
But I guess God had other ideas. I guess he wanted to give us free will, instead. I guess he wanted us to have hearts that were free and open to all the emotions of the human experience.
As for our brains? I have no idea what he thought we were going to do with those.
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Wow, Nick. I guess that they weren’t too upset since you’re still walking around, but way to walk a thin line.
Hang in there, no one understands my satire either. My best (worst)example was telling indigenous people here in Canada (we’re not to say “Indian”) at a protest rally “If you don’t like it, why don’t you go back to where you came from?”
didn’t they actually come from Asia, though? or is there a more up-to-date theory, now? here in the US, as a spanish teacher, i talk about the indígenas of the americas and i say that it’s thought that they came from Asia … through Alaska “while Sarah Palin wasn’t looking”. some people get it.
The “as for brains” bit was the perfect denouement.
While I do believe it is everyone’s responsibility to bow before the Meditorial Kingship of Christ, I am not one who believes in forced submission. I have friends from all walks of life and I truly love them. You can ask any of them who adamantly oppose my views. I do not force my beliefs on them and I respect their’s. I do believe a surface peace and living together peacefully in an amicable way is a real obtainable goal.
The early Church won by living lovingly in the sight of their neighbors.
By our love it says.
We all are made in his image no matter what diety or non diety we believe in. My pressuppositions lead me to know this. Everyone is capable of love. Since we are fallen we are capable of great evil also.
Choose you this day is a very relevant challenge. We are all accountable and will give an account on that great day. We should all live in light of that in my opinion. But then again. Opinions are like armpits. We all have a couple and they all end up stinking at some point. We should try to work diligently to be not offensive by love.
I like this.
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