Ekklesia's Simon Barrow has written a paper for a theological response to the London bombings. His article is on the CMS website and is challenges religious groups to examine their own teachings and face up to the "difficult bits" where violence is promoted. He also challenges our terminology when talking about waging a "war on terror", which speaks more of revenge than Christian Love. The challenge we all face is knowing what label belongs to who. Muslims think it's Christian's bombing Iraq, While Christians in the west see it as a secular response party due to countries turning their back on God. The US probably share both these view points! so how on earth can we really know what to think about anybody? Perhaps it's like Solomon's wisdom in descerning between the two women who claimed they both were the mother of a baby. He deemed the baby should be sawn in two and given to both women. Of course the mother couldn't accept this and so conceeded to let the other women have the baby. By this Solomon could see the Mothers love for her child and gave the baby to it's rightful Mum. So in the face of anger, fear and persecution, who of us, no matter which side of the fence we stand can forgive and so show our genetic similarity to God.
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