ctlmdjb: I challenge you to read the book The Case for Christ and the follow-on book The Case for Faith by Lee Strobel, a Yale trained lawyer who used to be an atheist. In these books he tackles most of the objections to Christianity and his analysis is very analytical and does not merely rely on just having faith.
The fact that we live in a fallen world provides all the explanation I need for the situation that some people go to church and then to the strip club. It is a sad state of affairs that only 6% of your countrymen attend church services; more immigrants attend Muslim services there than Christian services, by the way. Does it provide you peace of mind to know that by many projections, within 75 years, Islam will be the majority religion in Europe and your liberal, socialist policies will be replaced by Islamic law?
And exactly how to you propose the western world should respond to terrorists that hide amongst the civilian populations, launch rockets at our cities, slice off the heads of innocent children and whose stated goal is the downfall of our entire civilization? Were you equally appalled at Hamas when they blew up the U.S. Marine barracks in Beruit killing 225+ U.S. Marines in the 1980s? Do you blame George Bush for the London subway attacks, the Spanish train attacks, the recent plot uncovered to bomb trains in Germany? Is the U.S. media at fault for the radical Islamic ferver sweeping the streets of Amsterdam and the suburbs of Paris?
The undeniable truth is that the style of warfare the enemy is waging upon us is forcing us to make difficult decisions. In my opinion, and the opinion of the vast majority of analysts, Israel responded with kid gloves. It is a sad and unfortunate state of affairs that civilians die in warfare, so why don’t we ask the terrorists to fight fair and stay away from civilians? Let’s put the blame on them and not on George Bush. Let’s recognize that it’s militants and not the US Military who are killing innocents in Iraq, beheading families and slaughtering bus drivers.
Living a liberal, carefree life where every point of view and belief is accepted and celebrated sure is appealing isn’t it? We could all live in communes, practice yoga and meditate all day long. Unfortunately we live in a world where there are people who would nuke an American or British city if given the chance and kill millions of our innocent people, and there are countries who would support them. How would you go about killing them on the battlefield? Do you have a better way of avoiding civilian casualties? Or perhaps you would rather we just let them go free? After all, who are we to call anyone an enemy purely based on their beliefs and stated goal of destroying us.