Why This American 'Soldier of Christ' Is Fighting ISIS in Iraq -- ABC

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59. What ISIS wants is to convince as many Muslim people as it can that this is a legitimate religious

war. That it is the Christians of the world that they are fighting. They are appealing to all Muslims to follow them because according to them this war fulfills their end times prophecy. Thankfully most Islam believers do not agree with this. We hope to keep it that way.

Likewise, our rw fundamentalists would also love to see this as a religious war - which is exactly what this guy is saying when he talks about being a Soldier of Christ. And there are plenty of idiots who would be very glad to have our military involved in a religious war. Some of them might even be willing to go over themselves. But I think fundies by and large want to send someone else to do the fighting. They also think this is their end times war.

This is what the President in his speech was trying to avoid. Two crazy factions of two international religions facing each other and fighting to the death. And getting all of the rest of us pulled into the fight when they issue their war cries in the name of their gods.

Up to this point I don't think that we have entered this religious war on either side. We are just trying to stop the idiots on both sides. But how much longer can we hold this line if we are going to divide the war using the two international religions as the reason we are there?