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Saturday, September 23, 2006
Doug Giles :: Townhall.com Columnist
Imprecatory Prayer: The Intercessor’s Elephant Gun
by Doug Giles
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I hate to ruin your light summer beach reading, but America and much of the world are still in deep yogurt when it comes to the war on terror. As much as post-moderns want everyone to sing, We are the World, in some all-religion-encompassing global hand-hold and just move on, I’m afraid radical Islam is not going to be a part of pomo’s desired altruistic music video.

Radical Islam is incorrigible, period. So, face it and embrace it. We are not going to convert or appease these cats. We have nothing they want. There is nothing to negotiate. They want us exterminated. Capisce?

That said, what do we, Christians in particular, do when faced with an implacable radical enemy? Just sit around sing, Kum Ba Yah, and hope these bad guys will leave us alone? That’s what a lot of five-watt light bulb, spiritually neutered believers are doing. Just sittin around, hopin and wishin or worse yet, ignoring the viable millennial threat of militant Islam. I, for one, will not take a passive stance against this aggressive enemy.

You cannot be lame and win this game with these guys. So, as a Christian, I suggest the following:

One: Back President Bush and his aggressive armed attitude against terrorists and terror supporting nations. Make that the main focal point for your vote during the next election. Picture this when you step into the voting booth this November: some fluctuating, wait-on-the-U.N. type of guy in the Senate while one of Osama’s droogies is arming a nuclear suitcase in your back yard. Take that image with you to the polls.

Two: Push for cinching our borders tighter than a fat guy's belt after an All-You-Can-Eat beef rib blow out at Tony Roma’s.

Three: Aggressively support the rooting out of the multitudinous terrorist cells that are concocting their villainous crap in our very own cul de sacs.

Four: Make it ridiculously impossible for a pro-radical Islamic professor to pee in one of our university’s bathrooms, much less teach in one of our classrooms. And finally, most importantly,

Five: As people of faith, dust off and use what’s afforded to the believer within the Old and New Testaments, namely the imprecatory prayers.

What is an imprecatory prayer? Continued...

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Doug Giles’ new book “A Time to Clash: Papers from a Provocative Pastor” is now available. Ann Coulter says "Doug Giles’ A Time to Clash is a substantive and funny tour de force for traditional values.” Doug’s award winning talk show and video blog can be seen and heard at www.ClashRadio.com.
 
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Does much of the left hate God?
OKJoyce writes: Saturday, September, 23, 2006 6:23 PM
"Some" does not equal "much"

"There you go again -- that broad brush!
You cannot state with any degree of certainty that "much" of the left hates Christ, anymore than I can say that "much" of the right are hypocritical Christians"

Tim comments-One can indeed be certain that the majority of the left in the US and Canada hate God. Have you never read "All who hate me love death" Prov.8:36b?
Given that the "majority of the left" support it, abortion remains legal; which makes it certain, therefore, that a majority of the US (and Canadian) left both love death and hate God.
Tim

I don't quite understand
How can some of you place blame for our situation on the execrable qualities of popular entertainment?

Your television sets all have "off" switches and channel-changers. You choose whether or not to pay money to see a movie, concert or theatrical performance.

I don't believe that your shocked reactions, and your demands that the government "do something" will change the entertainment industry.

Your refusal to view their product might.

In the meantime, YOU choose whether or not to wallow in this particular trough. Let the others make their own decision.

To be *compelled* to do "good" does not work. It must be a matter of free will.
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