The Christian Colaition Symposium on Islam

I know this is old, but I’m just reposting my thoughts from a year ago or so, that I had put on another site. I thought I’d do this, before I started on some new stuff.

OK, now, the date says March 7, but the actual date is March 23. But I want to finisht htis before starting another Thoguths section.

Anyway, in February, on C-Span, there was a symposium given by the Christian Coalition on Islam. Now, I would have never known about this if my mom wouldn’t
have told me about it. So I decided to go and watch it online. And I had intended to write about it here.

The truth is, I couldn’t get through the whole thing. I stopped at about the point where Daniel Pipes called the Council on American-Islamic Relations a
militant Islamic group. Huh? Really? Where did he get that idea? But anyway. The thing I don’t understand is why to some people have to tear down other
religions? Is it to make themselves look better?

Sometimes I wonder if I’m losing my mind. Because I see Islam as a beautiulf way of life. Very peaceful. And in Islam, everything is addressed. Everything
is laid out in front of you. You know exactly what is expected of you. And it never changes based on the whims of humans. It is beautiful and I’m content
with it.

So why is it that some Muslims advocate violence against innocent people? Or, why is it that some Chrisitans feel the need to have a symposium like this?
Why did I even watcht his int he first place?

All it did was upset me. And I don’t know what else to say about it. I had envisioned how was going to come and refut everythin that they said, but I can’t
do that. There are just too many things to mention. And the very fact that they wouldn’t even have any Muslims on the panel tells me something. I hate
it when people sit there and say that they don’t want to be critical of others’ religion, but then turn around and spend the next two hours or so tearing
it down. Uh, this is not going well. I’m distracted, I’m tired, my head is hurting.

Me as a garden

You know, it’s funny how when you’re just sitting and thinking, the things that come into your mind. But I think I have found the perfect analogy for myself,
and how to continue to improve and to become a better person. I am a garden. And the faults and shortcomings in my character are the weeds. My good qualities
are the flowers. And as with gardens, you have to constantly take care of your garden, watering the flowers and getting rid of the weeds.

If you let your garden go, it’s going to get overgrown with weeds and bushes and whatever else creeps in. But if you constantly take care if it, then it
will be beautiful. So I look at myself as a garden. I have to always remain vigiliant and to work on myself, so that I can be the best person I can be.

My first post…

Well, I’m not sure how to start this. But I think I’m going to like this. I’m just not sure what to put in it yet. I’ll thinking of something later I’m sure.