Friday, September 15, 2006

The Pope weighs in

Muslims have reacted with rage and violence to a quote from the Pope suggesting that Islamic forced conversion is contrary to Reason.

Pakistan's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam has been quoted as saying, "Anyone who describes Islam as a religion as intolerant encourages violence".

Consider Islam:

No regeneration and empowering by the Holy Spirit.

No human-divine Saviour.

No appreciation for the trinitarian complexity of the person of God; indeed, an explicit disavowal of it.

No path to God by vicarious suffering and faith; a reversion to a you're-on-your-own works-based religion.

No respect for the historical witness concerning Christ; instead, an audacious 6th-century doctrine that Christ did not actually die on the cross.

Islam tears the guts out of Christianity then expects Christians to honour it as a legitimate revelation when, in fact, it warrants outright repudiation.

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"... nothing intellectually compelling or challenging.. bald assertions coupled to superstition... woefully pathetic"