Steve<br><br>Oh, I am sorry! I didn't realize the person who refused to serve gas was a Christian, or are we just assuming that? <br>I would never, as a Christian refuse to serve anyone, regardless of their nationality. However, as a Christian, I would never refuse to liberate a people who have been treated so horrendously! <br><br>Doesn't this just sound like hypocrisy to you? "I am shocked that they would not serve me gas, but you desperate people of Iraq just forget about ever being free?" Wow! Where is the logic? Not to mention humanity!!<br><br>Do you not see that liberty of a nation also means that the gospel can then be preached? I am not so naive to think we can start a PCA church tomorrow in Bagdad, but do you not believe God has His elect, may even just ONE "righteous" in that country? I spoke with a lady yesterday who teaches in a Classical School in Iraq. A friend of mine, George Grant, helped start it. He is doing a series of lectures on understanding the Islamic nations. She told me that there are people who are converted in that country and there is such a need to reach that nation. <br><br>I really don't understand the mind of someone who in opposed to liberating a nation where children are in prison, taken from their families, because they don't want to fight in an evil army. A dictator, who commands his people to commit suicide so he can keep the people repressed while stealing from them? Do people, Christians, really oppose pulling people from a country where the dictator kills his own cousin so as to take over the nation? And Christians, do we sit by while enjoy our motor-homing around a free land, oppose freeing a people so they too can enjoy the same liberties? Do the Ben Franklin test..........draw a line down the middle of a piece of paper and on one side write down why liberation would be good, and on the other why it would be bad, because those are the two choices.<br><br>The story of the Good Samaritan speaks volumes of what a Christian should really do. I just am saddened when the people who are offended by someone not selling them gas(which by the way is a right just like the right to oppose the war) would oppose anyone giving another human being his freedom!<br><br>The fact that we are "Christians" does in no way condone the ungodliness of another country. Please don't use that analogy.<br>Because we cannot sit by and allow such atrocities does in no way make us less Christian. The guy who would not sell gas was trying to make a statement just like those demonstrators against the liberation of the Iraqi people. But I am curious, why would you even want to buy gas from us? <br><br>And, yes, not all Canadians feel that way, so why defend the ones that do?<br><br>How do we as Christians sit back and watch the slaughter of any human being? How do the Canadians? We gave Sadaam more than enough time to surrender. Our true sin lies in not doing this earlier!! <br><br>Tom if you are one who does not oppose this freedom, then God bless you, but if you do, maybe should should ask yourself why.
