Burning the Quran

Dear Rev. Terry Jones,
You are dumb.
Love, Vaughn

If you have been keeping up with the news recently, you've heard about all the turmoil and protesting with the proposal to build a mosque near Ground Zero. And in retaliation to this, and to "honor" those fallen on September 11th, nine years ago, Reverend Terry Jones and his 50 member church from Florida want to burn the Quran, the Muslim's religious book, to "show that we aren't going to take it anymore."
I personally do not think that this man has earned the title of a Christian Reverend. I can't recall a single instance in the Bible where Christ burst into a room of Pharisees, grabbed their texts, set them on fire, and said, "There's a new sheriff in town, suckers, and a new law!"
No. The Christ that I have learned about is one of love and acceptance. Isn't the greatest commandment, after loving God with all your heart, might, mind, and strength, to love your neighbor as thyself, and to pray for those who oppress you? This act by the Reverend where he threatens hate against his neighbor is not in any way a "christian" motion.
Nor is his reason for doing this. To me, with all the attention he has been getting, I feel the "America" he is trying to represent and fight for is the one where anyone can get into the news and receive their week of fame. I think that's what he is now more concerned about. This is in no way a Christian action with Christian structure. Christ was a lover, not a fighter.
And yes, I am pretty upset by what the terrorists did to us those nine years ago. And yes, I can see why many family members of the victims would have a problem with a mosque at Ground Zero. But this retaliation is not the right way. It's not a Pro-Christian movement by this "Reverend", because there is nothing Christlike about the way he is choosing to act. And it's not an anti-Muslim sediment either, which fyi, is still not Christlike at all. What this is is an act of a warmonger. Someone hating just to hate. The only thing he is going to accomplish to burning these Qurans is ticking off Muslims (which are 1/6th of the World's population) and making them believe that this is all of America's view. Therefore, causing the extreme Muslims to want to fly more airplanes into us, and threaten our citizens all over the world.
Pray that, tomorrow, he doesn't go through with it.

Appearance of Evil

In our day to day lives, through the depictions of Hollywood, or even from our local news reports, we, as a society, have a generalized depiction of evil, consisting of expectations and qualifications. Generally, we see that those who appear most evil are the ones who are able to take other lives without a second thought. Be it the serial killer who has no value for human life, or the desperate hostage taker in our reality who doesn't have a problem pulling the trigger to get a message across, our soceity fears most the people who seem to be able to take a life without any guilt or second thoughts.
And, yes, though many of these people are our enemies and are what are most feared by people, it seems, as I understand, that we have it backwards. That maybe the people who have no value for human life really aren't the greatest of enemies. Maybe it's the ones who truly understand the worth of a soul.
Maybe it's because we only know this mortal, temporal life that we so greatly fear the physical threats and dangers more than the spiritual, or maybe it's because Satan is the Father of All Lies, and is able to get us to concentrate on the matters that are truly of lesser importance; but either way, the true enemies are not the ones who have no value for human life. No, the true enemy is the one that understands better than any of us how much worth we truly have.
The worth of souls is great in the eyes of God. If God wants to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of mankind, the worth of a soul must be great. And Satan knows that too. He knows that better than we do because he was there and he knows the potential of what we can become. And so, yes, one of my greatest fears is running into someone evil who has no appreciation or value for human life. But what I think is most important to concentrate on is the master of evil who truly knows the value of human life. The value of the soul. Our value.
A dollar is important, but you're not going to sacrifice yourself for one dollar if you're busy guarding one hundred of them. I would choose a Benjamin over a Washington. The goal of Satan is to show us all these people who have no value for human life and get us so fearful and distracted by them that we get busy worrying about that dollar-that temporal dollar-and forget how much more value is truly at stake here.
So yes, evil has no respect for the worth of souls. But true evil actually knows our value.