Soap Box

The National Cathedral was recently used for a Muslim prayer service. Since its inception the National Cathedral has always been a Christian church, with a cross, the international symbol of Christianity prominently displayed on top.

I'm sure to a lot of you reading this, that gesture would seem like a peace overture, an olive branch extended to Islam by the Christian faith, an acclamation that all roads lead to the mountaintop and that we are all pursuing a different path to get there.

Well, before you go too far down that warm and fuzzy primrose path, ask yourself if the Muslims would be willing to reciprocate, to allow a Christian service to be held in one of their Grand Mosques.

I believe that this will be viewed by Muslims worldwide, not as a sign of inter faith cooperation, but a sign of conquest, that in this place of Christian worship in America's capitol, Muslims have been invited in, not to join in with Christians in worship of the God the building is dedicated to, but to worship another god in a Christian house of worship, a definite victory in the march to Islamic dominance in their eyes.

And yes, I said another god, because there is no stretch of the imagination that could possibly conceive that Jehovah and Allah are one and the same.

One has only to read the book of Genesis, the part where Jehovah is dealing with Abraham, or Abram, as he was known at that time. God told him that He would lead him to a land flowing with milk and honey, where his seed would become as plentiful as the sands on the shore and the stars in the sky, and that land would belong to him and his offspring forever.

He told Abraham, "He who blesses you I will bless and he who curses you I will curse".

Most folks aren�t aware that the Koran is not the only book of holy writings for Muslims, there are writings known as Hadith which are the recorded sayings of Mohammed. In the Hadiths, Muslims are told to hunt down Jews and kill them. If the same god said both things he would be contradicting Himself, in essence, telling a lie, and that's something God don't do.

Now, before all you cherry pickers who are reading this and literally salivating to comment and tell me what a bigot I am and how backward thinking and close minded I am, let me say this.

Some of the Muslim leaders who attended the service did make strong statements condemning ISIS and the fanatical element of their faith, which seems to have become the face of Islam to the world. And I commend them for having the courage to do so.

I'm sure there are many well meaning Muslims in this nation and around the world who abhor what has happened to their religion and those who have subjugated it for their own purposes.

But that does not change the undeniable fact that Jehovah and Allah and not one and the same and while Muslims have the right to believe in whatever god they choose to, that fact remains.

The Muslim belief that when Jesus returns He will come back as a Muslim and tell the world that he was wrong and insist that the world convert to Islam, flies in the face of every teaching in the New Testament where Jesus says, "I am the way and the truth and the life" and promises to come back to earth as the conqueror of all.

The Old Testament - the part of the Bible that Jews accept - says that Abraham's seed would be reckoned through his son Isaac, his son by his wife Sarah and Muslims believe that Ishmael, his son by a slave girl named Hagar is the heir to the blessings of Abraham.

The contradictions are many and evidently irreconcilable from what's been going on for the past couple of thousand years or so.

My purpose for writing this piece is to inform those who falsely believe that the God of the Jews and Christians, Jehovah and Allah of the Islamic faith are one deity. 

And you don't have any reason to settle for my word on that, look it up for yourself. The contradictions are plentiful and readily available for anyone who would take a few minutes to discover them.

Again, this is not to say that there are not many good, decent people of the Muslim faith.

But the time is soon coming when every human being on this planet will have to decide who they will trust with their eternal soul.

Don't be deceived.

What do you think?

Pray for our troops and the peace of Jerusalem.

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels​