What now?

Well, it seems there is yet another militant islamic group vying for our attention. The group that has turned Mumbai, India inside out these past few days is certainly making a name for themselves. I can think of several; animals, beasts, demons, unholy, thugs, and criminals. What makes them think that the respect of the world can be earned through action like this? If they truly believe that "Allah" is going to reward them for all this death and destruction and has indeed commanded his faithful to act this way, I would be very suprised. I believe that these groups, and others throughout the world aren't really interested in matters of faith, ideals, or creeds. I think they are only interested in using their "belief" as a means to an end. That end is power. Power over any and all they can force into submission. The few 'elite' at the top create a following that will do their bidding and blindly follow anywhere. They crave power and all its trappings; money, acclaim, excess, avarice, recognition, and, perhaps most of all, to live a life outside the rule of law. God's or society's. Their aim isn't too raise or elevate their followers lives and faith. It's to raise their own selves to the level of dictator.

We find examples of this same behavior in many societies around the world and throughout history. Communism wasn't about an ideal society, a utopia. It was about concentrating power over an entire people in the hands of a few. Nazism was more of the same. Socialism, Islam, Liberalism, etc. We are in danger of the same sort of thing here in the Unites States. More and more, we allow the federal government to take away our rights, our states rights, right to worship as we see fit, right to protect ourselves and our families, and many others and concentrate power centrally. All of these groups follow the same M.O. Make extravagant promises to solve all the peoples woes, create more dependency on the bigger government, get us to stick our necks out further and further, then neatly lop off our heads. After all, we don't need to do any thinking, right? I mean, they got it covered, don't they? We just need to blindly, quietly, sheepishly follow instructions and no harm can come to us. We have to forget all that silly, useless stuff we were taught growing up. There are new rules to follow. Morals are really set by society, Christianity is a form of mental illness, the 'golden rule' is an old fashioned notion. The good of the collective society is more important than our individual rights. Truth is what they tell you it is.

I got news for them. Truth is an absolute. They will ALL have to atand before God and be judged according to His truth. It won't matter what their opinion, or interpretation, or intentions were. He won't care about any of that. His truth is absolute. His will be done.