"Everybody is free to bow down"
I saw the animated gif that Imre showed here, and a lot of information can be extracted from it. Thank you Imre
In the gif are represented a bunch of people bowing up and down, they like to go to the gym and do these exercises. Not really, their religion, their sacred book tells them to do it. That act tells us they are probably muslims. And why they believe that? In few words, that's their life. And the word life here means all this together: the tradition, the law, the goverment, the religion, those things you tell to your children to follow, the self esteem, the social values, and of course, the merits to "buy/win" a place in heaven. If they don't do that, they will the considered unfaithful, and this leads to family and social dishonor, and with our kind of view we can understand they are considered as a virus, computer virus, and the solution of that: don't execute, quarantine, delete, and in the worst cases: change some lines in some registry files or...
When they are tested, they can act with violence, but there is something they share with the Bible, and it's called the esteem of their beliefs, and the claiming for revenge of the blood shed, and so they can resist threads to quit their faith or be killed. The big difference, though, between they and us, the West Side of the world, is the following.
Our life don't depend on the Bible anymore, their life does on their religion. We prefer to read and study magazines and any other info located in internet. Their religion can move them to the war. We hate being in war, we even hate this or these men sitting there goberning our countries, getting richer, while others get poorer, and governing our country bad and talking bad against the opposed candidate for goverment, who talks bad to him as well. And we would do the same. In few words, our life don't give a damn for the religion and for the one who rules our country or region, but they try to follow everything because they understand there's a price if they don't.
But to fill this lack of ours, we take a look at... ourselves, and to our shell of friends and family we trust, and our worship and "exciting time" belongs to music, and videogames, and we have a business in our jobs too, way too much for the expensive life we live in.
I think it's enough about that, let's hear what God has to tell us today, so we can think of it
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Daniel 6.10-18
And Daniel, on hearing that the writing had been signed, went into his house; now he had windows in his room on the roof opening in the direction of Jerusalem; and three times a day he went down on his knees in prayer and praise before his God, as he had done before.
Then these men were watching and saw Daniel making prayers and requesting grace before his God.
Then they came near before the king and said, O King, have you not put your name to an order that any man who makes a request to any god or man but you, O King, for thirty days, is to be put into the lions' hole? The king made answer and said, The thing is fixed by the law of the Medes and Persians which may not come to an end.
Then they made answer and said before the king, Daniel, one of the prisoners of Judah, has no respect for you, O King, or for the order signed by you, but three times a day he makes his prayer to God.
When this thing came to the king's ears, it was very evil to him, and his heart was fixed on keeping Daniel safe, and till the going down of the sun he was doing everything in his power to get him free.
Then these men said to the king, Be certain, O King, that by the law of the Medes and Persians no order or law which the king has put into force may be changed.
Then the king gave the order, and they took Daniel and put him into the lions' hole. The king made answer and said to Daniel, Your God, whose servant you are at all times, will keep you safe.
Then they got a stone and put it over the mouth of the hole, and it was stamped with the king's stamp and with the stamp of the lords, so that the decision about Daniel might not be changed.
Then the king went to his great house, and took no food that night, and no music instruments were placed before him, and his sleep went from him.
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God bless and confort you all, specially Sandra and Fannie
