Posted on 11/23/2001 6:26:38 AM PST by wwjdn
Edited on 05/07/2004 6:21:43 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
A sign outside a Wilder church stirred a flurry of controversy this week, causing passersby to complain about anti-Muslim sentiment.
The church
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Freedom of speech...maybe, maybe not...
Yes, it is "freedom of speech," but it also is offensive to many, not because it is specifically "anti-Islam" but because one of the bedrock principles of our nation is that of freedom of religion and tolerance for other beliefs.
In fact you'll note that these are BOTH First Amendment issues.
This guy can't say whatever he wants--in fact, it's better that he do so, so that other people will understand what kind of "Church" it is that he's running there--but others are also free to say he's a bigot and an *asshole.
Truth
What religion? The reporter doesn't ask. Sounds like the people who write letters to the editor of the local paper and say "I always vote Republican, but..." and then go on to complain about something that is part of the Republican party plank.
Although Houle does not practice any religion presently, she feels strongly that such a statement goes against Christian themes and is "hateful and hurtful.
This is just weird; she isn't religious but she's still a theologian.
Oh wait, I get it: Christian churches are bad and Christians are hateful - THAT's the message of this article.
It's true. Islam is against the teaching of Christ - hence "anti" Christ.
I don't see anything wrong with this. It's in the Holy Bible. He runs a Christian church!
Denying him this right would be like a "No Guns" sign at a gun show!!!
If the Quran teaches that Jesus Christ was the son of God and will come again, it is not antichrist.
If it does not believe this will come to pass, it is antichrist.
Anyone who is upset by this should go look at some of the Islamic literature about the Jews. There was never a more hate filled religion.
I'd like to know what the mayor meant by stating that the statement "is inappropriate." Inappropriate for whom? For a politician looking to be re-elected? Or is the mayor making some theological statement, based on his reading of the Bible and Koran? His analysis seems awfully weak, and basically amounts to a sappy "Christianity = love".
From what I read in the article, the pastor seems to have a good basis within his religion for making the statement. I therefore have no problem with him making it.
I'd point at that as a member of the Jewish religion, which like Islam does not accept the divinity of Jesus, my religion would presumably be subject to the same statement. This makes me no less willing to recognize the pastor's perfect right to make it.
Yes, he can.
This message is true of Islam. They do not believe that Jesus is the Son of God. They say so.
Historic Christianity has held to the trinity from the foundation of the Church. The Apostle John held that those who denied the divinity of Christ were part of the spirit of antichrist which was already in the world in his day.
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