A Caricature of Things to Come?

Hostage drill at NJ school features mock 'Christian terrorists'

I cannot believe the "drill" that they practiced at Burlington Township High School.  I do not understand why they had to create a fictional situation to practice.  School attacks around the world are pretty common, unfortunately.  You can look to several examples just by picking up the paper.  For instance at least one school girl was killed and dozens wounded in a explosion just outside their school in Iraq.  Why go create a situation that should never (and I highly doubt would ever) occur?  Christians attack a school because their daughter wasn't allowed to pray?  What Christian group is this?  What Christian would ever do this?

Does anyone actually believe that this would happen?  I've always been taught to "train as you fight."  Get a realistic situation that is as close to real combat as you can and practice under those circumstances.  Picking a non-realistic situation does not allow for good training.  Is this a subtle attempt to influence the participants -- "one day Christians will come at you with guns" ?  I find that to be a little too hard to swallow.  I think that there are people who believe that the extreme right Christians would do something like this.  That shows two things:

1. Some people are ignorant about Christian beliefs and believers.
2. Christians need to live IN the world but not be OF the world.  You can't "win hearts and minds" by living in a hole-in-the-ground.  You have to let your light shine.

Pray for our brothers & sisters in Iraq. 

My heart grieves for this mother:

“When they cook a dish in the Middle East, it is traditional to put the meat on top of the rice when they serve it. They kidnapped a woman’s baby in Baghdad, a toddler, and because the mother was unable to pay the ransom, they returned her child  – beheaded, roasted and served on a mound of rice.”

The infant’s crime was to be an Assyrian, but this story, reported by the Barnabus Fund, went unnoticed in the West, like so many other horrific accounts of Christian persecution in Iraq.

Since the invasion of Iraq, Muslim militants have bombed 28 churches and murdered hundreds of Christians. Last October, Islamists beheaded a priest in Mosul in revenge for the Pope’s remarks about Islam at Regensburg. But never let it be said that jihadis do not have a sense of ironic humour: that same month they crucified a 14-year-old Christian boy in Basra.