Saturday, December 23, 2006

Our worst nightmare….

Imagine one of our worst nightmares – a nuclear-armed Muslim superpower, immensely wealthy from its vast natural resources, led by a government publicly committed to religious principles, advised by fundamentalist theocrats, absolutely certain that its way is the best and its religion the only true religion, determined to impose its culture and its system of laws on the rest of the world, and willing to send its troops anywhere to further that cause. Sounds pretty terrifying, doesn’t it?

Now change the word Muslim to Christian and you can begin to understand how some of the rest of the world sees us. We are some other people's worst nightmare.

Think about it. These days we fit that description a little too close for comfort.