{"id":41193,"date":"2017-04-09T15:28:44","date_gmt":"2017-04-09T21:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=41193"},"modified":"2017-04-09T15:28:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T21:28:44","slug":"isis-claims-responsibility-egypts-palm-sunday-church-bombings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/04\/isis-claims-responsibility-egypts-palm-sunday-church-bombings.html","title":{"rendered":"“ISIS claims responsibility for Egypt’s Palm Sunday church bombings”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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\u201cThe Palm Leaf,\u201d by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905)
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For mainstream Christians, today marks the beginning of\u00a0Holy Week<\/a> (to which I wish Latter-day Saints paid at least a bit more attention). \u00a0Specifically, today is Palm Sunday<\/a>, commemorating Christ\u2019s triumphal entry into Jerusalem, when throngs of pilgrims spread palm fronds out before him as he rode into the city on (Matthew 21:1-11<\/a>; Mark 11:1-11<\/a>; Luke 19:28-44<\/a>; John 12:12-19<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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This morning, in Egypt, the so-called \u201cIslamic State\u201d marked Palm Sunday by detonating bombs at Coptic Christian churches<\/a> in the large coastal city of Alexandria and in the still-sizable town of Tanta, in the\u00a0Nile Delta. \u00a0Islamist murderers\u00a0killed at least 43 people and injured many more.<\/p>\n

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I do not understand what they imagine such actions will accomplish. \u00a0Do they really think that their attempts to make Islam<\/em> a synonym for nihilistic violence against innocent people will make it more attractive in the eyes of non-Muslims? \u00a0Do they seriously imagine that a better society, a better world, will be built upon the shredded bodies and splattered blood of devout Arab Christians? \u00a0Surely they cannot be so stupid. \u00a0But, clearly, they can<\/em> be that evil.<\/p>\n

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In any event, I could not help but think, today, of the palm as a historic Christian symbol of martyrdom<\/a>, commemorating the triumphal entry into Paradise of Christians who have been slain for their faith.<\/p>\n

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I mourn the Coptic Christians who paid for their beliefs this morning with their lives. \u00a0They were peacefully assembled at their churches, worshiping their Lord, and in and for that act they were torn asunder by murderous wickedness. \u00a0May the Lord bless them, their families, and their memories.<\/p>\n

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