Have We Forgotten?
Have you forgotten, how it felt that day? To see your homeland under fire and her people blown away. Have you forgotten, when those towers fell? We had neighbors still inside... Have you forgotten?
Darryl Worley
We watch the news and are continually amazed - is there no end to depravity in our modern day? It seems almost surreal that we could be having a serious discussion as to whether or not a mosque (with the proposed name of one of Islam's famous victories over part of the Christian world) should be constructed in the shadow of Ground Zero. I guess it really shouldn't be surprising, however, as the only conversations that those in the self-proclaimed "intellectual world" seem to have are arguments against common sense.
It is stunning to see people rail against the idea of a prayer at a football game, but tell these same people that it is a bad idea to build a new Cordoba Mosque blocks away from the sight of the worst terrorist attack in American history, and they will begin to lecture you on constitutional rights and religious sensitivity. However, when it comes to the question of why the constitutional rights of the foreign interests that are backing this project should trump the rights of the American families of the victims, these intellectuals are silent.
Regardless, these arguments of constitutional rights and one-way religious sensitivity do not change for a moment the fact that it was radicals from this very religion that attacked America. Nor does it change the fact that the loved ones of the victims of 9-11 have the right to their dignity being preserved as well as the right to the memory of their loved ones being honored, not assaulted, by the very politicians to whom they have entrusted those rights.
Nor does it change the fact that the vey people who cheered the deaths of the 9-11 victims will be cheering the building of this mosque. It may be fashionable in today's politically correct world to glorify the hateful and condemn those who speak out against them, but it does not make it right. As Christians, we are to love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us, but this does not mean that we are to facilitate their depravity.
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil... Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.
Isaiah 5:20-21, NIV
