tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8995602.post-67221877756444088202008-03-19T11:25:00.001-04:002008-03-19T12:25:50.305-04:002008-03-19T12:25:50.305-04:00iraq: five years gone<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_hEmMUiOQltM/R-E8RwZKnvI/AAAAAAAAAOM/D-SMeTjmI7Y/s1600-h/bomb+baghdad.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_hEmMUiOQltM/R-E8RwZKnvI/AAAAAAAAAOM/D-SMeTjmI7Y/s400/bomb+baghdad.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5179487322198679282" /></a><div style="text-align: left;">"Is there no savior for our hopeless world?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Concerned with political interests, our leaders have lost the trust of honest people to mediate a just and lasting peace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>They mouth religion but have no honest trust in the divine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>They cannot be the savior; they are the problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>In their mouths they say, “In God we trust.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>But their hearts insist, “In God we <i>cannot</i><span style="font-style:normal"> trust.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>We will be God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>We will save the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>We will rid the world of evil.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>What atheists express in words, our leaders second by their actions."</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">Joseph F. Girzone</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Joshua in a Troubled World</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Lord have mercy.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Christ have mercy.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Lord have mercy.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div>Omarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08664056566879773286noreply@blogger.com2