Nov 13 2007

Lost ironies

 Glad to hear your trip is going well.  My Muslim friend here is a former imam himself, so maybe you can continue your dialogue when you get home.  Wish my dad lived closer so you two could visit.  I spoke…  [more]

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Nov 10 2007

Who would Jesus water-board?

 This is one of those rare occasions where I agree with some of what Dershowitz had to say.  Water-boarding IS torture.  The real question is not whether or not a particular technique is torture, but whether or not torture harvests…  [more]

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Nov 07 2007

Once more, with feeling

 Here we go again.  Is there no limit to the willful ignorance that manifests itself on these pages?  If the writers who routinely berate Charley Reese for his studied sympathies ever stop scouring the Internet for imaginary jihads, we’ll all …  [more]

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Oct 29 2007

Memo from a church consultant

 From http://www.mirabilis.ca/archives/cat_religion.html February 08, 2003 When the Baptist visited the Orthodox church When Baptist minister Dwight Moody visited an Orthodox church, he found himself in a cloud of incense, trying to figure out what the worshippers were chanting, why they…  [more]

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Oct 29 2007

Tradition

 You had to know this was coming…  A few thoughts on yesterday’s message:  How much of the clapping phenomenon is really a demonstration of spontaneous, spirit-led worship?  Or were your first instincts the right ones — that clapping is a…  [more]

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Oct 26 2007

The millennium

 To my pastor: I find the most unusual things on the Internet.  Take a look at this:  http://books.google.com/books?id=2OIRAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA453&lpg=PA453 The doctrine of the millennium does not properly belong in eschatology, but is rather a part of Christology, coming under the head…  [more]

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Oct 25 2007

Islam 101

 Norwegian friend Barre has scanned the 1948 edition of the Iraq Petroleum Company’s handbook.  The section on Islam, starting here: http://almashriq.hiof.no/lebanon/300/380/388/ipc/ipc-hb-1948/pages-html/021.html …is probably as good a summary as you’ll find.  There are overtones of Western superiority in the writing, but…  [more]

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