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To many, the God of the Bible is an intolerant, vengeful god, demanding that His followers destroy their enemies in their entirety and requiring them to follow laws that are the anathema of the secular humanist liberty so many seek after today. Many people decry, ‘How can you follow such a god who demands such things of those who follow Him?’

News commentary sites have been full recently of significant political personages and media pundits arguing that the emerging US policy toward Iran and its nuclear program is a tragic rush to judgment at best or a vile conspiracy against the Muslim world at worst. These writers forward the claim that it is, in fact, the US policy toward Iran and the Muslim world that is to blame for this problem, not the fact that Iran is advancing a questionable and threatening nuclear program.