tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4179184224703888533.post3678890277861542191..comments2012-08-15T17:17:50.509-07:00Comments on <center>Pedaler's Log</center>: A.bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02167326634800379987noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4179184224703888533.post-86945171304740387152010-08-27T15:15:08.129-07:002010-08-27T15:15:08.129-07:00"If we have no peace, it is because we have f..."If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."-Mother Teresawellis68https://www.blogger.com/profile/06087588494600746854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4179184224703888533.post-72084710935835756362010-08-27T15:14:17.553-07:002010-08-27T15:14:17.553-07:00Good thoughts Ashley and I appreciate your optimis...Good thoughts Ashley and I appreciate your optimism. I tend to think America is and has been built on conquest, even if that conquest is clothes in religious and even hopeful terms. <br /><br />Whatever the case, we must remember that we belong to each other. Muslims are Americans too and Muslims grieve over 9/11 just as much as (if not more than) American Christians do. Ironically, America has usually claimed to be about religious freedom. And the same people who would celebrate America as a place of freedom, the same folks who want the government to butt out of everything (even economics), are some of the same people protesting the mosque. How do they not see the irony? <br /><br />The Christian response to all this, from my perspective, would be to aid Muslims in building their mosque. What a bridge to peace that would be? And what a way to embody the Kingdom of God--a kingdom where there is no more slave or free, male or female, Jew or Gentile, Christian or Muslim!wellis68https://www.blogger.com/profile/06087588494600746854noreply@blogger.com