A New
Crusade. What Should We Do?
by Dwight Longenecker
Islamic Fascists might wage war on the
basis of religion. We do not.
Christians should never wage a
religious war. We should learn from the crusades that religiously motivated
wars are not the answer.
As Christians we should step back from
conflict and always (from a religious perspective) be opposed to war and resist
war as long as possible and always resist the temptation to wade into war for
religious reasons. Our weapons should never be military, but spiritual.
However, what the civil authorities do
is something else.
The civilized nations of the world
should begin equipping themselves for whatever it takes to overcome the ISIS
threat. They should do so purely from a military and political standpoint. From
our side religion should be taken out of the equation. This should enable us to
make alliances with countries with Muslim majorities who also wish to extirpate
the foe.
We should consider the ISIS threat the
same way we considered the Nazi threat. Nazism may have been driven by a pseudo
religious ideology of racial superiority, but we didn’t go in with an equally
absurd ideology. We confronted the evil because it was evil. It was destroying
innocent lives. It threatened our own way of life. We saw the evil for what it
was, didn’t bother debating the stupid ideologies and simply rolled up our
sleeves, put up our dukes and went into battle.
We should confront the pseudo
religious, barbaric ideology if jihadism in the same way. Let’s not get caught
up in religious arguments, racial arguments and ethnic arguments. Let’s just
see the demonic, cruel and barbaric evil for what it is, get ready to fight it
and not hold back until it is utterly destroyed.
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