Letters: Was Allah sleeping?

To the editor:

There was a story from many centuries ago about a King Ahab and Queen Jezebel, who worshipped Baal, who let them do what they wanted. A prophet named Elijah challenged the leaders to a showdown. They built an altar on Mount Carmel and offered an animal sacrifice. Elijah thought the God who consumed the sacrifice with fire would be the real god. The leaders of Baal called out for their god to consume the sacrifice. Elijah mocked them saying maybe your god is in the bathroom or maybe he is asleep. Call out louder. When it was obvious that Baal couldn’t consume the sacrifice, Elijah poured water on the sacrifice and asked God to consume it. God did. Then Elijah told the people to decide who the real god is. Whether you believe that story or not, we just had the same test a couple weeks ago.

The Christian God wants to protect his chosen people (Israel) and the Muslim god wants to destroy Israel. The Muslims fired more than 300 missiles at Israel, and Israel’s iron dome shot them down. If there were no gods involved with this conflict, how successful would the iron dome be? I’ll just say 90 percent. Considering that only one person was killed and 99 percent of the missiles were shot down, is it reasonable to say the Christian God is the true god?

If you can’t conclude that, consider this. If Allah is the true god, why didn’t he confound the iron dome? Maybe too many missiles were coming at the same time, and the missiles of the iron dome might have gotten confused about which ones each of them were going to shoot down. That is what the Christian God would have done if the roles were reversed. He knocked down the wall of Jericho, and confused the enemy when it confronted Gideon’s 300 soldiers. If Allah is the true god, wouldn’t he have been able to get at least 70 percent of the missiles through? You might conclude that either Allah is not the true god, or it’s just not the right time.

Bill Hibbing,

Hartley