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SoCal Churches Respond to Quran Burning With Blessings [UGH]
NBCLA ^ | Sept. 10, 2010 | Jonathan Lloyd

Posted on 09/13/2010 2:16:25 PM PDT by La Enchiladita

...In Orange County, two churches also are planning events.

Irvine mega-church Marines will conduct an all-day "Bridges" seminar. Organizers said the events is designed to replace fear and misunderstanding of Muslims.

"Our goal at Mariners is to provide a contrast to the growing polarity and conflicts and tear down some of the walls of misunderstanding that lead to fear between communities," Sophia Marsh, a Laguna Beach resident and three-year member of the Christian church, told the OC Register.

Irvine United Congregational Church will conduct a "Quran blessing."

(Excerpt) Read more at nbclosangeles.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Philosophy; US: California
KEYWORDS: apostasy; burning; cair; cultureofcorruption; islam; koran; mosque; proislamist; quran; terryjones
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1 posted on 09/13/2010 2:16:28 PM PDT by La Enchiladita
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To: La Enchiladita

“Irvine mega-church Marines will conduct an all-day “Bridges” seminar. Organizers said the events is designed to replace fear and misunderstanding of Muslims.”

Isn’t that the home of Adam GodDam, the “Americna Taliban?”


2 posted on 09/13/2010 2:19:03 PM PDT by jessduntno (The Victory Mosque will be built over our dead bodies over our dead bodies ...)
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To: La Enchiladita

Why dont they just convert to Islam?


3 posted on 09/13/2010 2:19:31 PM PDT by expatguy (Support "An American Expat in Southeast Asia" - DONATE)
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To: La Enchiladita

Another reason Southern California has one of the lowest weekly church attendences in the country?


4 posted on 09/13/2010 2:19:56 PM PDT by Bulldawg Fan (Victory is the last thing leftists and their fellow Defeatists want.)
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To: jessduntno

“Americna Taliban?”

“American Taliban?”


5 posted on 09/13/2010 2:20:01 PM PDT by jessduntno (The Victory Mosque will be built over our dead bodies over our dead bodies ...)
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To: La Enchiladita

Bless a book that denies the death and resurrection of Christ? Really, are they sure they know WHAT they believe?


6 posted on 09/13/2010 2:20:24 PM PDT by DManA
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To: DManA

Dare I ask if this constitutes heresy?


7 posted on 09/13/2010 2:22:47 PM PDT by La Enchiladita (Where were you when the world stopped turning....?)
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To: La Enchiladita

I wouldn’t bless the Quran, nor burn it. This is silly. They have proved that they don’t critically think, because Jesus wouldn’t be blessing it. The Muslims would never bless the Bible.


8 posted on 09/13/2010 2:22:51 PM PDT by oneamericanvoice (Support freedom! Support the troops! Surrender is not an option!)
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To: La Enchiladita

This ‘church’ really needs to speak with the Egyptian Coptic Christians and Iranian Jews that now live in Southern California. Ask them if this is a misunderstanding.


9 posted on 09/13/2010 2:23:19 PM PDT by Azeem (The world will look up and shout "Save us!"... And I'll whisper "No.")
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To: jessduntno

Close.

Ghaddan is from Garden Grove, just up the way.

Irvine is the financial center of Orange County and the location of Orange County’s John Wayne Airport. It is a lily-white conservative area, so I’m not surprised that they think blessing Koran’s is cool.

Laguna Beach is the artsy section of OC. Lots of gays and commies there. Muslim delight.


10 posted on 09/13/2010 2:26:43 PM PDT by Retired Greyhound
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To: La Enchiladita

Suppose it depends on what they think “bless” means. If it’s #1 I’d say yes.

Target.com/FreeShipping
bless·ed (blsd) also blest (blst)
adj.
1.
a. Worthy of worship; holy.
b. Held in veneration; revered.
2. Blessed Roman Catholic Church Used as a title before the name of one who has been beatified.
3. Bringing happiness, pleasure, or contentment.
4. blessed Used as an intensive: I don’t have a blessed dime.


11 posted on 09/13/2010 2:27:00 PM PDT by DManA
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To: La Enchiladita

Here is a well produced video of 3 Basic Things one you should know about Islam and Shari’a Law;

http://www.thewall.net/view/1332/islam-three-things-you-didnt-know-1/

Its only 8 minutes or so and very worth it.

If you have others who would be interested, this should be sent to them.


12 posted on 09/13/2010 2:28:54 PM PDT by ntmxx (I am not so sure about this misdirection!)
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To: Bulldawg Fan

Would you please cite some references to back up this claim? Not to say that I support what these churches are doing but I do know that one of the largest mosques west of the Mississippi is located there in Garden Grove. Some of the best bridge events I’ve attended were there with some brilliant Christian scholars taking on some of their leaders (Saddiqi was one of them).


13 posted on 09/13/2010 2:29:22 PM PDT by jettester (I got paid to break 'em - not fly 'em)
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To: DManA
"Bless a book that denies the death and resurrection of Christ? Really, are they sure they know WHAT they believe?"

Those so-called Churches have no clue what they are blessing and who the mock blessing would be coming from.

14 posted on 09/13/2010 2:30:37 PM PDT by NoRedTape
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To: NoRedTape
That would be giving them the benefit of the doubt:

have no clue what they are blessing

Which as Christians I suppose we should.

15 posted on 09/13/2010 2:33:29 PM PDT by DManA
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To: La Enchiladita

Why don’t they also bless Saul Alinsky’s Rules For Radicals (a text dedicated to Lucifer), Dianetics (the Scientologists’ religious text), and those books of other non-Judeo-Christian faiths?

The Koran holds as much water as do the Mormon texts, Jehovah’s Witness texts, and other splinter faiths from Christianity.


16 posted on 09/13/2010 2:34:54 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ask yourself,where does Saudi Arabia fit on a scale of "passive" to "moderate" to "extremist" Islam?)
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To: oneamericanvoice
The Muslims would never bless the Bible.

In Saudi Arabia, the theocratic government confiscates bibles (they are illegal) and burns them.

The US State Department has no comment on this practice and you won't find any statement from these interfaith worshipping "Christians".

17 posted on 09/13/2010 2:37:48 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ask yourself,where does Saudi Arabia fit on a scale of "passive" to "moderate" to "extremist" Islam?)
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To: ntmxx

Bookmark for home viewing.


18 posted on 09/13/2010 2:40:02 PM PDT by Sergio (If a tree fell on a mime in the forest, would he make a sound?)
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To: La Enchiladita
United Congregational Church

United Congregational Church = left-wing idiots getting together

19 posted on 09/13/2010 2:41:26 PM PDT by stripes1776
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