Christianity Today

Sorry- I accidentally used Kasey Moore's name as my own in the last comment. I had merely intended to use her name to address her.

Kasey Moore- whenever I read a CT article on events in the Mid East that involve one of the Eastern Churches (Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, etc.) I always read plenty of comments from American "evangelicals" slandering these people as lesser Christians than they are, if they even deign to grant these churches the title "Christian". I can't turn on so-called Christian radio without hearing a preacher curse and condemn Catholicism. What are American Protestants doing but committing religious genocide with their armies of missionaries to Latin America? I believe your words, but my experience with American evangelicalism shows me that they are cheering the destruction of non-Protestant Christianity.

It's true that there have been many of these religicides in human history, and it is awful. It's even worse to claim the evangelicals should enjoy what is going on now, becuase of what people did in history. I think people who believe this are not acting out of a place of love that Christians are supposed to act on. This makes me sick, and I feel for the people who are in danger of losing their homes and even their lives because they believe in Jesus Christ and God as our savior. I know my prayers are not falling on deaf ears, and I hope these people know that God is watching out for them because they are in danger just because they believe in Him. God loves his people and he will never ever ever abandom them. If God is for us, who can be against us? These people may not get punishment on earth, but they will pay the price when the are judged by God.

I have always felt that the United States should never have invaded Iraq, nor should we have sent troops to Afghanistan or any other Muslim country. I believe the pretext was terrorists and weapons of mass destruction, but the reality was oil. Had our nation developed our own vast oil resources or other energy, we wouldn't have been in the mess we are today.

I am an Assyrian whom still live in Iraq, all what you read above is true, and believe it or not, the fact is more dangerous than this, yeah, I have witnessed when the terrorists (some people who lived in our neighborhood who were with Saddam's party then after the islamic terrorism they become with al-qaeda) knocked my door, and said, you either pay money, convert or get out of here, we got out of our house for sure. Only the thing you said at Saddam's time was wrong, Saddam (when lost his control in 1990) he started to plant extrem religion in muslims, the "hijab" became more than before, they even tried to teach us "Islamic religion" in schools, also separated boys from girls starting from elementary schools, also tried to prevent us from speaking our own language. Iraq was closed at saddam's time, even if you got out, there was no UN refugee center that will accept you, that thing kept christians inside. Please tell UN to make it easy for us to have refuge, don't make us wait years