I
just saw a post by some atheist who says that now is the perfect time
to overwhelm the Muslim world with offensive cartoons and movies and
what have you regarding Mohammed. We in the West should deliberately offend Muslims so much and so often, he says, that they realize they simply cannot protest enough to stop it all
and they will simply quit.
The
blogger resents a White House response of being careful lest
Muslims do some serious damage to the West.
"What
Jay Carney . . . are saying is that the free expression of our
opinions should always take into consideration whether there might be
someone, either next door or at the other end of the world, who could
possibly take offense . . . This, by definition, would make our
speech no longer free"
I
can't blame this atheist for being ignorant of yet another option,
that of Christianity, As the New Testament teaches, "Though I am
free and belong to no man I make myself a slave to everyone. While
everything for me is possible to do (I'm already forgiven),
not everything is the right thing for me to do, for I am to love my
neighbour as myself."
Neither
the blogger's option of, "Let's offend people to the point of
desensitization," nor Jay Carney's option, of, "Let's tread
lightly lest we offend and they hurt us," is the way to go.
Love
is always the better option.
Yes we have the right to offend, but how
is that going to help anyone?
"Love
your enemies, do good to those who hate you, pray for those who
persecute you."
Jesus
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