Posted on 4/2/2009, 3:04:29 PM by rightwingintelligentsia
SEATTLE, Washington (CNN) -- Ann Holmes Redding has what could be called a crisis of faiths.
For nearly 30 years, Redding has been an ordained minister in the Episcopal Church. Her priesthood ended Wednesday when she was defrocked.
The reason? For the past three years Redding has been both a practicing Christian and a Muslim.
"Had anyone told me in February 2006 that I would be a Muslim before April rolled around, I would have shaken my head in concern for the person's mental health," Redding recently told a crowd at a signing for a book she co-authored on religion.
Redding said her conversion to Islam was sparked by an interfaith gathering she attended three years ago. During the meeting, an imam demonstrated Muslim chants and meditation to the group. Redding said the beauty of the moment and the imam's humbleness before God stuck with her.
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Ship her out to Mecca.
I’m surprised that they had the guts to do it all.
She wasn’t gay, so they could.
“Had anyone told me in February 2006 that I would be a Muslim before April rolled around, I would have shaken my head in concern for the person’s mental health,” Redding recently told a crowd at a signing for a book she co-authored on religion.”
Fair enough.
“Redding said the beauty of the moment and the imam’s humbleness before God stuck with her.”
Um...I’m concerned for her mental health if she changed what she had been doing for 30 years because of “the beauty of a moment.”
Has she also declared herself a lesbian, everything would have been OK.
As far as I'm concerned, she can frock herself.
“Redding said the beauty of the moment and the imam’s humbleness before God stuck with her.”
Humbleness before A god not THE God.
Sad when people, especially supposed Christians, are easily swayed by emotions and feelings. That is NOT what true Christianity is all about.
Just imagine the kind of “defrocking” she would have gotten if she had been a muslim first and then converted to Christianity...
No worries. Give her another month and she’ll be into Kabballah. I’ve met lots of people like this since moving to the West Coast.
“For the past three years Redding has been both a practicing Christian and a Muslim.”
So the Episcopal Church will have her killed for denying her religion right? Oh...wait, that’s the wrong religion...
LOL!
Frock her!
Doesn't sound like profound arguments.
Islam is a religion of an antiChrist figure. It is the only major religion that acknowledges the existence of Jesus Christ while at the same time denying His divinity, His death by crucifixion, His Resurrection, God's sacrifice and our redemption.
She cannot be a Christian and a muslim at the same time. It is an impossibility.
God made her a
Lesb-islam-glican
and who are we to criticize?
Does she wear her hijab now?
How do they do that...public defrocking, kind of like the TV Show, ‘Branded’(I am dating myself), where they pull your rank off your sleeve, or what
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