You guys waste time dreaming about how much fun WWIII AKA the Crusades Redux will be. The rest of us will try and ignore you as much as possible and get on with the God-given task of improving the world.
If by "Crusades" you mean, rescuing subjugated peoples from subjugation by the sword, I would argue that this is more consistent with what we know of God's will than otherwise.
But, we aren't talking about WWIII, that was the Cold War.
Possibly WWIV.
I was immensely cheered to learn that there are almost twice as many Christians as Muslims in the world.
The much ballyhooed birth rate among Muslims appears to be matched, if not overmatched, by the birth rate among Latin American Catholics, who live, by the grace of God, in a verdant and fertile land with plentiful water and plentiful natural resources, everything necessary for pleasant living. All they lack is education, and even that is something that is passing.
Irony upon irony. The Catholic Spaniards who conquered South and Central America and forced the Indians to convert to Catholicism by the sword, by persuasion, and by intermarriage, were fresh from throwing the Muslims out of Spain.
It could have been the Muslims who conquered Latin America -- or even the Chinese -- rather than a few hundred Spaniards -- upon such small turns of fate is history made. |
