Posted on 07/15/2008 11:41:21 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Christian doctrine is offensive to Muslims, the Archbishop of Canterbury said today.
Dr Rowan Williams also criticised Christiaity in history for its violence, harsh use of punishments, and its betrayal of its peaceful principles.
His acknowledgement of Christian faults came in a highly conciliatory letter to Islamic leaders calling for an alliance between the two faiths for 'the common good'.
It risked fresh controversy for the Archbishop in the wake of his pronouncement earlier this year that a place should be found for Islamic sharia law in the British legal system.
The letter to prominent Muslim scholars comes at a time when Dr Williams is facing immense pressures from inside his own Church of England and Anglican Communion.
A gathering of Anglican bishops from around the world that begins tomorrow is on the brink of a devastating split over whether homosexuality and gay clergy should win their approval.
The Archbishop's letter is a reply to feelers to Christians put out by Islamic leaders from 43 countries last autumn.
In it, Dr Williams said that violence is incompatible with the beliefs of either faith and that, once that principle is accepted, both can work together against poverty and prejudice and to help the environment.
He also said that the Christian belief in the Trinity - that God is father, son and Holy Ghost at the same time - 'is difficult, sometimes offensive, to Muslims.'
Trinitarian doctrine conflicts with the Islamic view that there is just one all-powerful God.
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This guy just can’t resist peeing on the theological electric fence, can’t he?
Boy, this guy just can’t wait to be a dhimmi.
“Will no one relieve me of this low born priest?”
What an Asshat.
What a putz.
Muslim doctrine is offensive to Christians
So is Judaism, Archbishop, but since both Judaism and Christianity predate Islam, I don’t think it’s the former two who need to change anything.
Is this news?
The Gospel is an offense to those who cling to this world which is passing away. Islam with its sensual, fleshly ‘paradise’ and its demonic doctrine of conversion by the sword is most assuredly of this world, so naturally the Gospel is an offense to its adherents, even as it is to the self-avowedly secular.
Unbelievable.
Rowan Williams has been a disaster. Not just for Anglican/Episcopalian communicants. Why doesn’t he just take off his hat and put on a turban?
Former Cradle Episcopalian. Now Evangelical.
Utter nonsense.
The doctrine of the Trinity maintains the core belief in ONE omnipotent God; revealed in three persons.
It is the misconception on the part of Islam to attribute the belief in three gods to Christianity.
Ayatollah of Canterbury speaks again.
Yep, the Trinity is really offensive to Muslims, but I'm sure they won't have any problem with the Church of England ordaining gay priests and bishops.
As that great philosopher Steve Martin once said
WELL EXXXXCUUUUUUUSE ME!
Me thinks Dr. Williams does not know much about Islam.
jw
He’s just figuring this out? Has it dawned on him that Muslim doctrine is offensive to Christians? Yet we don’t cut their throats for it when we come across them.
Perhaps the Church of England should bow to Muslim sensibilities and Sharia law regarding homosexuality and gay clergy.
“Christian doctrine is offensive to Muslims”
“Show tolerance towards their intolerance!”
or
“Submit to your masters”
All the same.
Everything is offensive to Mohammadans.
INTREP
Who put this guy in charge of the church? If I were in it I would demand a recall.
Who CARES!?
I don’t have a horse in this race, but I’m praying for a split, frankly. Millions of Anglicans deserve better than this horsepoop.
What is going on over there?
Oh, and this asshat is badly in need of a neck circumcision.
He loves homosexuals and Muslim terrorists and hates devout Christians. This is the leader of the Anglican church. The decadence of the elites becomes more evident every day.
The Queen of England did it.
It’s what always happens when liberals take over religious sects, they pervert them to submit to evil.
Death cults have little use for Christian ideals
I was under the impression that ANY form of religion other than Islam is offensive to muslims... In fact, it seems to be rather difficult to find anything at all that isn’t offensive to muslims.
LOL!
Just read recently that the founder of this guys religion (Henry VIII) had St. Thomas of Canterbury exhumed, tried in absentia for treason against his King, then had his bones burned. What a tool.
Islamic beliefs are offensive to Christians.
Rowan Williams is offensive to Christians. And anyone else with half a brain.
Traitorous priests who show nothing but disgust for the Bible as they push for voluntary subjugation are also offensive to Christians.
Well that explains it. Her son obviously is an idiot when it comes to the dangers of Islam in England. Now I know she is one too.
Why don’t they just get it over with
and put the
American “queen”
on Canterburry’s episcopal throne
and crown his gay sex partner, too?
Time for the Queen to earn her keep and replace this creep.
People like this are the reason that Britain is no longer a predominately Christian nation. If the leader of your church is worried about the offensive nature of the Gospel, then he needs to be shown the door. The Apostles who founded the Church did not couch the Gospel in inoffensive terms to avoid martyrdom. They proclaimed it even though they knew they would be punished or even killed by the authorities. Get a clue, Rowan!
Kick this heretic and apostate out now. I don’t know what his true religion is, but it is light years away from Christianity.
Talk about the wrong man for the wrong time!
“He told Muslim leaders that faith has no connection with political power or force, and that Christians have in the past betrayed this idea.”
-Oh really? If it weren’t for Political Power and Force, we’d all be Mythraism. Never heard of it? Understandable because if Constantine’s mother hadn’t converted the emperor to Christianity, Christianity would be about as well known as the Mithraic Rites.
Liberals are very good at using diversions and they get it from their Manifesto induced manuals on “how to run a communist cell”.
This is all a diversion to deflect away from the fact that the Anglican church is falling apart at the seams due to liberal secularism in the Anglican church.
This guy doesn't understand Islam at all, does he?
So what's your point, Rowie? Christians find the Muslim doctrine offensive.
“He told Muslim leaders that faith has no connection with political power or force, and that Christians have in the past betrayed this idea.”
-Oh really? If it weren’t for Political Power and Force, we’d all be Mythraism. Never heard of it? Understandable because if Constantine’s mother hadn’t converted the emperor to Christianity, Christianity would be about as well known as the Mithraic Rites.
I wonder if gene robinson is offensive to muslims.
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