We see daily news reports of Muslim atrocities. People are beheaded. Mass executions take place. Young girls are abused in the most awful ways. Women are treated like field beasts. Rape, pillage, torture, and selling into slavery are everyday occurrences. We see sickening videos of Muslims torturing helpless animals to death. Buildings are bombed. Many are murdered. These are real atrocities, committed by real people, and encouraged by leaders of the Muslim faith.
The many moral Muslims are afraid to speak out. Why are many Muslims so prone to violence?
Some make excuses for wrongdoing. “It’s not that Muslims are bad. It is just their culture.” Then, the appeasers leap to their invariably justification for doing nothing: “It wouldn’t be right for us to change their culture.”
The obvious question is avoided: “Why are so many Muslim cultures so prone to violence and hate?”
Muslims are among many who have chosen to live in a state of Original Sin. Original sin encourages anger, violence, and oppression. Those living in Original Sin behave the way people did before God provided His people the power to wash away Original Sin through Baptism.
In Christian nations, billions of people have been baptized in “The name of The Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.” In the Christian nations, millions of people have had their Original Sin been washed away. They are cleansed, and have more love of neighbor in them. Such nations are far more pleasant places to live. People, in fact, never migrate to Muslim nations, but, as often as possible, flee them for Christian countries.
Because so many are baptized, Christian nations no longer have slavery, child abuse, poverty, forced conversions, mandatory prayers, horrible mass murders, executions of those with whom we disagree, and such awful treatment of helpless animals.
We also know that Christian nations are far from perfect. Formerly Christian nations allow the godless to support abortion. Divorce is rampant. Sins abound. Still, Christians have been cleansed of Original Sin through Baptism and the power of The Holy Trinity, and Christian peoples do far, far better at loving their neighbors. And, throughout their lives, we generally get better at loving God and our neighbor.
Christians realize that one aspect of Original Sin is a deep insecurity that drives those in that state to deprive their neighbor of freedom to disagree. What a blessed relief to be Baptized and free of the desire to oppress!
