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2002-11-09 Middle East

Jordan FM calls Palestinians to stop suicide attacks

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2002-11-09 11:26 am|| || Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I have no major problem with Islam nor do most of my friends. However, if the East keeps pushing this jihad/fatwa crap, we (the West) will have to turn Mecca and Medina into a sheet of glass. We are capable (although not liable; just yet) of doing that.
Church creeps who think it's okay to cornhole altarboys hold no sway over me. Rabbis who think they can talk their way outta the Islamofascist gas chamber are also in for a big surprise.
Human beings know instinctively the difference between right and wrong despite what our "moral leaders" say!

Posted by Anonymous 2002-11-10 02:03:56|| 2002-11-10 02:03:56|| Front Page Top

#2 Quite right about the Protestant mainline which has effectively reduced the number of sins down to four: racism, sexism, homophobia and not ratifying Kyoto. Most of these will dissolve or be kept around by kind of a historical force of habit, like the British monarchy.

Pentecostalism, which is not the same as fundamentalism, does seem to spend a lot of time on the glory of God and not much on confronting sin. Although it should be said that my experience with it mainly comes through watching TBN; I don't attend a Pentecostal church.

I think a great many Roman Catholics and fundamentalist Protestants like the Southern Baptists do spend quite a bit of their time on what's right and what's wrong. This is the main reason they are regularly cast as intolerent bigots by the culture at large and have been ever since Mencken.

And it's mainly been the Southern Baptists and similar groups who have made a point of highlighting the differences between Christianity and Islam. Which earned them the wrath of the Episcopalians and other ~~Christian milquetoasts~~ ecumenists, much to my personal disgust.

Posted by Chris Johnson 2002-11-12 10:32:10|| [mcj.blogspot.com/] 2002-11-12 10:32:10|| Front Page Top

10:32 Chris Johnson