Knowledge of God:

Most American Christians don’t understand the God of Muslims very well, but the larger question, according to Episcopal priest Fleming Rutledge, is whether we understand our own God. In a Trinity Sunday sermon preached at Duke University Chapel, Rutledge said that as an itinerant preacher she gets into every kind of mainline church around the country. She’s noticed that ever since the beginning of the Iraq war most of these churches pray for the American armed forces, but few say prayers for Iraqi civilians and almost none pray for Iraqi enemies. “What does this say about our knowledge of our own God?” Rutledge asks. “Was it not Jesus who said, ‘Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. . . . Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful'” (sermon at http://www.cfba.info).

from http://www.christiancentury.org/dept_cmarks.html