Posted by
Arnie on Wednesday, January 03, 2007 7:32:11 PM
The Patriot Post, Founders' Quote Daily is a great service available to anyone. I enjoy getting their daily quotes, have many of them bookmarked for future reference. Today's quote of James Madison is relevant to what is happening between Christians, Jews and the Muslims. "Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprize, every expanded prospect. " 1774
Do any of you wonder whether Islam is a bondaged religion? You should be convinced that it is, if by no other observation, by their treatment of women. Is there any wonder why the countries where the government, or the majority is Islamic, are third-world poverty stricken countries. No freedom. The people are in bondage. Gee whiz, living somewhere and having to stop work, stop play, stop producing etc and pray five times a day, and this is not considered a bondage? This is like being in shackles with a long chain. It certainly does not further the productivity of the workforce, the innovators to create, the scientists to experiment, the poets and artists to rhyme and paint while the mood is there. "....debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprize."
Do any of you wonder whether Christianity is bondaged? If you do, you've been reading the works of the wrong people, listening to the secular progressives who view adhering to the tenants of any religion as stupidity. The atheists, the darwinists, the progressives have been picking on Christianity for some time now and have made it a national liberal crusade since headlines in the mid 60's read "God is Dead". No, Christianity is not bondage. If you've been going to one of those churches with a list of do's and do not's a mile long, then get out of there quick. Those churches are still around, but they do not correctly portray the messages of Jesus as contained in the new Testament. John 10:10 "I have come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly". John 8:36 "If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed." The shackles are gone, the mind and spirit are set free. Wow.
Freedom rules. Freedom has allowed America to become the greatest country ever. That free spirit granted to Christians has allowed the greatest scientific discoveries of any time. That free spirit, and yet remaining a religious spirit, has created more industrial innovations in America over the past 50 years than over 1500 years previously. That free spirit enabled Martin Luther to nail his thesis on the doors setting in motion the protestant reformation. But, along with that freedom comes responsibility and accountability. You will not answer to any man, but only to God when the time comes.
As I See It Now.