Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

February 15, 2010

An unemployed truck driver from East Nashville was stunned to seehateful graffiti smeared across the walls of a local house of worship.

?When I saw it, I just broke down crying,? said the truck driver, who gave his name as ?Tim.? He bought paint, brushes, and other supplies which he donated to congregants as they, along with 75 Christian and Jewish volunteers, worked to repair the damage done to the religious sanctuary ? the Nashville Al-Farooq Mosque.

Apparently riled by a local news story that darkly insinuated terrible things about Tennessee?s Muslim population, someone had defaced the building and left a note calling for the extermination of all Muslims.

The chief figure in the parable teaching that God requires us to love our neighbor is a Samaritan, someone who followed a religion detested by those who worshipped the God of Abraham. When He commanded us to love our neighbor, Jesus didn?t carve out an exception for Muslims.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.