{"id":40339,"date":"2013-10-01T21:10:15","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T21:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/stephen_hough-is_it_christian_to_single_out_the_christians_beyond_terror_i\/"},"modified":"2013-10-01T21:10:15","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T21:10:15","slug":"stephen_hough-is_it_christian_to_single_out_the_christians_beyond_terror_i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40339","title":{"rendered":"(Telegraph) Stephen Hough–Is it Christian to single out the Christians? Beyond terror in Peshawar"},"content":{"rendered":"

We may not like it, but Christians are not God’s ‘favourites’; and we may like even less the fact that God loves terrorists as much as he loves well-behaved little me. This is not to suggest turning a glib, blind eye to evil or injustice, far from it; but it is to suggest that any Christianity worth preserving, defending or celebrating is (if at times with gritted teeth or a broken heart) to strive to forgive to the last breath.<\/p>\n

“The last will be first and the first will be last”, said Christ. A strident demand for Christianity to be pushed to the front of the queue in our present age may well turn out to be counterproductive. In the West Christendom had over a thousand years to make its point, its mouth close to the only microphone in town. In our global, post-Christian times a gentler, kinder voice will need to be used, and we may even thereby find a way of changing Terror itself into hope and reconciliation.<\/p>\n

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We may not like it, but Christians are not God’s ‘favourites’; and we may like even less the fact that God loves terrorists as much as he loves well-behaved little me. This is not to suggest turning a glib, blind…<\/span><\/p>\n

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