Used as a tool of Islam to destroy Christianity
Posted Thursday, November 30, 2006
Dr. Sentell’s view of God is just as distorted as the pagans when he stated, “We worship the same God, the God of Abraham.” He claims the sale was part of God’s plan to help advance mutual respect. The imam has offered to teach him Arabic. Dr. Sentell, a psychologist working at Barksdale Air Force Base, is “seriously considering” his offer to learn the language of the Koran.
Sentell should become a Muslim, thus Sentell can worship a God of the sword rather than a God of love.
Islam rejoiced at the purchase of Trinity Presbyterian, and no doubt proceeded to eliminate any vestige of Christianity in their mosque. Men like Sentell are hated by Islam, given no respect.
In his book written in 1898, Christianity and the American Commonwealth, Bishop Charles B. Galloway gave a series of lectures delivered in the Chapel at Emory College, Oxford, Ga., March, 1898.
On page 26, Galloway states, ” Mohammedanism has produced an enslaved personality. Its Koran demands intellectual slavery; its harem requires domestic slavery; its state implies and enforces both a religious and civil slavery.” The Koran puts a premium upon war, offering the highest rewards to those who slay the greatest number of infidels.
Page 27. Mohammed’s cardinal principle, that the end justifies the means, consecrated every form of deception and lying, and encouraged every sort of persecution and violence. The citizen is the slave of the state; he has no rights to be respected. Mohammedanism is an absolute despotism, the most gigantic engine of intolerance and persecution the world ever saw.
Lastly, page 27, there is a proverb which says: “Where the Turkish horse sets its hoof the grass never grows.” In every land swept by this heartless despotism it has left a tale and trail of blood.
If Sentell wants to accommodate Islam, he can be my guest, because Sentell will be used as a tool of Islam to destroy Christianity, and will be hated with no respect given to Sentell and to his family.
Lou. S. Nowasielski
Letters to Kirkpatrick discuss trust and ask him to look critically at his actions
Posted Thursday, November 30, 2006
What Clifton Kirkpatrick can do is resign – which is what many good ministers and pastors have counseled him to do in private letters addressed to him personally. I know of two examples personally that discussed the issue of trust and leadership and asked him to look critically at his actions. So far there has been no response. The GA will seemingly not elect anyone else (I personally don’t know why!). I would ask him to resign. Please.
Todd Bensel CLP , Pilot Rock, Ore.
Fundamentalists who follow Mohammed and those who follow Jesus are similar
Posted Thursday, November 30, 2006
As a member of the church in question, I feel obligated to respond to some of the deficiencies in your recent article.
One thing your article failed to report is that the other offers for the church property were not for a lesser amount, but indeed wanted the property donated or given to them. As a small, struggling congregation, simply donating the property to a group simply because they are Christian was not an option. We needed the real estate to be converted into real money so as to continue our mission just across town; in many ways, this was a matter of survival for us. With these funds, our new church has become financially solvent again and is able to continue its outreach mission with renewed vigor and resolve.
I might also remind your readers that the Church is the body of Christ, which is to say that the Church is not any particular building or piece of property, but a group of flesh and blood human beings lifting high their voices to the Almighty. It is pure idolatry to suggest otherwise, to suggest that the building in which this takes place takes precedence over the people gathered to worship. To place the material building at the forefront of your concerns exhibits the shallow materialism that has come to dominate so much of our culture. It is shameful and entirely beside the point.
I might also remind Rev. Enoch [letter to the editor, posted November 29, 2006] that the cross, too, has been very much a part of the iconography of conquest. Need I remind him, or any of the other Christians who seem so eager to brush over the fact of the Crusades? Our ability to forget this and claim that the crescent and star are such icons even today is blatant historical amnesia. Moreover, that Rev. Enoch would even venture to say that we “long ago gave up lifting high the cross” is offensive and hurtful. We lift high the cross everyday, and do so with voices that are humble and beseeching, rather than dogmatic and arrogant. This sentiment coming from such a man of the cloth makes me sad indeed.
In fact, and contrary to another reader of your fine publication, we are a congregation of discerning spirituality, and we are aware of the nature of these times. And it is precisely in light of both of these things that I absolutely support our decision to sell the property as we did. To combat the dogmatic ideologies of both fundamentalist Christians and Muslims remains the dominant issue of our time, and we are working actively within this realm of faith. So many of your readers fail to see the absolute similarity between the fundamentalists who claim, erroneously, to follow Mohammed and the fundamentalists who claim, equally erroneously, to follow Jesus Christ. Let us remember that the latter gave but one commandment, namely, to love thy neighbor. We have some new neighbors in Bossier City, and we will love them like ourselves.
C.J. Sentell Nashville, Tenn., Member, Trinity Presbyterian Church, Bossier City, La.
PCUSA is helping to advance the cause of Islam
Posted Thursday, November 30, 2006
The selling of a Presbyterian Church (USA) property to those who eschew the precious faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, of which we are adherents and believers, is no less than what Judas did for 30 pieces of silver. As far as I am concerned, this is paramount to scuttling the last vestage of hope to repair and redeem this soul sick denomination. They have indeed betrayed our Lord; shall we continue to stand idly by.
Not only did they sell the property, they have sold their own souls by agreeing to study the Koran, and state that they do not see any reason to tell the gospel to Muslims because they are “all children of Abraham.” What about their commission from Jesus to witness of him to all the world; every tribe and nation and tongue? What about the Lord, who said to Abraham, “Of Isaac shall thy seed be ….”
Was it Abraham who died on the cross for the sins of the world?
They are helping to advance the cause of Islam and blemish the cause of Christ among the member churches who are still connected to the denomination, whose dollars pay the salaries of those who now bear the same stigma as Judas and the illegal courts of the Sanhedrin, who gave over their messiah for the pottage of political correctness and spiritual corruption.
Glenda Smith Asheville, N.C.
Louisville’s leadership has laid anything Presbyterian a waterless waste
Posted Thursday, November 30, 2006
The face of shame and the face of one completely overheated in a place that has no water. The condition where the tongue swells even a swallow shut and the condition of shame are the same. YaBeSH is the condition of being laid waste in the absence of life.
YaBeSH Louisville leadership of the Presbyterian Church (USA). You are an embarrassment to me; even in my own meager attempt to reach for that which is just, true, good, holy; you are an embarrassment and be ashamed Louisville leadership. You have laid anything Presbyterian a waterless waste. Such a prosecution of YaBeSH has been 35 years in coming.
Roger L. Williamson Public school teacher
Hedden’s column is perfect for the beginning of Advent
Posted Thursday, November 30, 2006
Thank you, Peggy Hedden, for your most wonderful article on “the big deal about Jesus.” It is perfect for the beginning of Advent and it is perfect in that it speaks volumes on behalf of orthodoxy. How timely and beautiful. Merry Christmas, Peggy.
Rev. Steven L. Seng First Presbyterian Church , Wellsburg, W.Va.
Replacing the cross with crescent is replacing Jesus Christ with anti-Christ
Posted Thursday, November 30, 2006
This is in response to sale of church building to Muslims and refusing to sell the property to Christians. I fail to understand how some one can see the Cross replaced by Crescent. Yet John Knox Church Trinity Church has now become a Muslim “Terror Center.” I don’t agree with Dr. Sentell that “We worship the same God, the God of Abraham.” Islam has nothing to do with God of Abraham. Muslims have yet to prove this claim. May I ask Dr. Sentall if they (Muslims) believe in the same Savior? I recently wrote to the American ambassador in Islamabad Pakistan, that the United States of America will soon become the “United Islamic States of America.” Replacing the cross with the crescent is replacing Jesus Christ with anti-Christ. I am sure the church leadership really understands what they are doing for future generations of their own.
Here in Pakistan the Presbyterian Church (USA) did the same. They sold their/our properties to Muslims and rejected our higher offers. Let the people of United States know that in Pakistan, we – the Christians – are not sold a piece of land for church building. We have to obtain special permission to build a worship place. Not only in Pakistan, but every Muslim country does not allow a church in their country. What Muslims do not allow other faiths, how can they manage to get in non-Islamic countries? I believe the Lord is very near and “Sale of Church is Seal of Satan” the sign of Beast.
However, we, the Pakistani Christians, can only pray for the ignorant Christian leadership of America, who are giving away America to Islam on a platter.
Bishop Timotheus Nasir Islamic Republic of Pakistan
Authoritative interpretation’ in this case means nothing other than ‘heresy’
Posted Thursday, November 30, 2006
How incredibly sad to watch the PCUSA, a once great denomination established on the firm foundation of Jesus Christ as Lord of heaven and earth, shaken to its core by a house filled with rebellious children insisting they know better than their maker what is good, right and true. “Authoritative interpretation” in this case means nothing other than “heresy.” When do we finally face a cold, hard fact. Apostasy is “death” as hard as the word is to swallow. At some point when we realize the meaning of the word, we who seek the way, the truth and the life will “flee fornication.” Wise men still seek him.
Karen Kolbinsky Hillsborough, N.C.
The world wasn’t paying attention then , and it still isn’t now
Posted Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Re: Islamic symbol replaces cross after sale of PCUSA church
Somehow the world wasn’t paying attention then, and it still isn’t now. The attached short speech from Winston Churchill was delivered by him in 1899 when he was a young soldier and journalist:
- “How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.
- “The effects are apparent in many countries, improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.
- “A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement, the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
- “Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.
- “No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.”
- (The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages 248-50; London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899)