Holiday dangers for American churches

According to a report from USA TODAY, ISIS/ISIL has issued a list of USA churches to be targeted for holiday attacks.

Quoting from its article, we read:  The Islamic State is urging its followers to attack U.S. churches and has published names and addresses of thousands of prospective targets, according to a report in the news website Vocativ.

Messages posted in Arabic to the group’s “Secrets of Jihadis” social media site called "for bloody celebrations in the Christian New Year." The post, under the name Abu Marya al-Iraqi, said the Islamic State, also known as ISIL, hopes to tap lone wolf attackers to “turn the Christian New Year into a bloody horror movie,” Vocativ reports.

The series of messages appeared on Telegram, a messaging app that allows users to send encrypted messages to one another. The group also uses social media to provide instructions on constructing and igniting explosives.

The information on U.S. churches was based on information already available online and includes a public directory of churches across all 50 states, Vocativ said.

Another post urged followers to attack churches, hotels, crowded coffee shops, streets, markets and public places and provided some examples in the U.S. Canada, France and the Netherlands, Vocativ said.

This is sobering news indeed.  It also reminds me of the ultimate New Age strategy of pitting target groups against each other.  Alice Bailey wrote in THE EXERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY (page 545):

"That the Jews should be rid of fear is of major

importance; that they should know and recognise the Christ

as the Messiah, and therefore find for themselves that the

religion they follow is destructive of many of the finer

values, is likewise of major importance; that orthodox

Judaism, along with all the other faiths, should realise

that there is no desire to make them Christian (in the

ordinary sense of the term), but that they should all move

tOWards some loving synthesis and eliminate their mutual

antagonisms and rivalries is equally urgent, and this statement

includes the Christian faiths as well. That the Vatican

cease its political scheming, its exploitation of the masses

and its emphasis upon ignorance is as important; that the

manifold divisions of the Protestant churches be bridged is

imperative. If none of these things happen, humanity is

headed towards a religious war which will make the past

war appear like child's play; antagonisms and hatreds will

embroil entire populations and the politicians of all the

nations will take full advantage of the situation to precipitate

a war which may well prove the end of human history."

It looks like that religious war is here -- or at least credibly threatened.

Stay tuned!

CONSTANCE