Gentlemen and Gentlewomen
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Since 2006 and my first experience with Baptist Life I have learned a great deal from all commentators, including Hauro, Big Daddy, and the moderators of the forum who, though not always agreeing with me, have been fair.
I welcome the criticism of my post on multiculturalism, and am taking in the points of offense from perspectives of those who despised what I wrote. Interestingly, I am considered by my fundamentalist friends a "liberal" and by my liberal friends a "fundamentalist." Regardless, I believe that both sides are Christian and my brothers and sisters in Christ and I learn from all who have been gifted by the Holy Spirit and that includes everyone I've met on-line in this forum.
My wife tells me that sometimes my writing does not come across the way I intend because the reader has no perspective about me the author. In other words, she says that sometimes my point is missed because my words are misinterpreted as to my meaning. The misinterpretation is not always the reader's fault--sometimes my writing is weak.
So....
Having seen this particular post of Big Daddy divert from the original criticism of my post, I thought I might chime in and say "Thanks" to all who have commented on my post and make one FINAL attempt to make my point in a clear, succinct, and unambigious manner without any history, Scripture, or comment.
The following is a true, sincere, question.
"Why do Baptists, who were so emphatic on "separation of church and state" in the 1700's, receive with either welcome arms or stony face silence radical Muslims becoming U.S. citizens and/or government leaders, Muslims who desire to place their hand on the Koran when swearing an oath, Muslims who by the very nature of their Islamic faith CANNOT separate their belief system from their desire to dominate the state and American culture--not to mention the world and world culture--with Islamic law and principles?"In my opinion, all Baptists, liberal and convservative, should shout from the rooftops the danger we are seeing in this world of secular states becoming radical Muslim states (i.e. Turkey).
The world is too dangerous to live in - not because of the people who do evil but because of the people who sit and let it happen.
Albert Einstein