Atheists and Secularists Consistently Fail to Identify the Enemy
Bryan at Hotair makes a very astute observation about atheists and secularists and their pattern to inaccurately identify the enemy we’re fighting in this global war:
The basis of the title of this post is that it’s consistently atheists and adamant secularists who understand the Islamist enemy the least, yet they’re also the quickest to slam or argue against anyone who does quote the Koran on its own terms to argue that it is animating violence. They are also the quickest to equate Christianity with the villain du jour, because Christianity is to them just one among many faiths that they may think they understand, but ultimately don’t.
I only have a nitpick for the bolded portion of the following passage:
Leviticus forms part of what’s known as the Law (along with Genesis, Exodus, Numbers and Deuteronomy), and in the Christian way of thinking the civil and ceremonial components of the Law hold no command on our behavior today because the purpose of the Law was fulfilled in Christ. Christians are not bound by the legal commands of the Law, and we do eat pork and do lots of other things that the Law forbids, and likewise we don’t do many things the civil and ceremonial Law commands us to do. I don’t want to get too esoteric here for the non-believers to be able to follow me, but essentially, those parts of the Law are no longer authoritative over the behavior of the Christian believer. They have been abrogated by later acts and writings.
The use of the term “abrogated” connotes that the later acts and writings contradict the earlier ones. According to the Christian worldview Jesus did not destroy the Old Testament Law (i.e., the old covenant), but fulfilled it and we are therefore bound by the new covenant, not the old one.
UPDATE: 9/24/06 7:00am Here is the relevant Biblical passage from Matthew 5:17-18
Do not think that I have come to ABOLISH the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to ABOLISH them but to fulfill them. For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.
