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My brothers, I need only add this. If you believe in goodness and if you value the approval of God, fix you minds on whatever is true and honorable and just and pure and lovely and admirable. Put into practice what you have learned from me and what I passed on to you, both what you have heard from me and what you saw in me, and the peace of God will be with you. Phil 4:8-9 Phillip's Trans.

I received an email last night from a friend. She is a wonderful Christian with a gentle heart. We are both military wives so our hearts tend toward the patriotic. The email was just a forward she thought would be thought provoking. And indeed it was, but not in the way she intended. It was an email explaining why Islamic people could not be good Americans because of their beliefs.

Normally I would have just deleted it and gone on. But last night, I couldn't ignore it. It had to be addressed. I changed the wording in it and returned it to her. I showed her how it could equally say, Christians cannot be good Americans because we serve God first and not country. How we believe in a Theocracy to come over democracy etc. Biblically it is this thought that will cause the New World order to execute Christians someday. It upset her that I would send it to her and told me she wasn't prejudice, she only thought it thought provoking.

This morning I reminded her how thoughts can cause a Nation to hate Jews and turn people who loved their neighbors into people who suspected their friends and turned them into the SS. I reminded her how choice wording causes the news to be slanted. After all the Israeli ARMY is killing civilians and Hezbollah is just killing people. The news doesn't explain that without a uniform people are considered civilians and that they don't wear uniforms. Nor that five year olds have been trained with weapons so when they become 14 year old soldiers with an Uzi they are often reported as a teenager murdered by soldiers. Words are too powerful to just be forwarded in an email. It is so simple to hit a forward button and so difficult to erase the image it creates. Sometimes we have to say this is not acceptable, even if a good friend is offended by it. An offense in our hearts should cause us to examine them closely.