In light of last week’s election results, several evangelical pastors have taken to social media or other platforms to paint a picture of America as having “lost its way.” Part of what they are reacting to is seven Muslims being elected to Congress and how Sharia Law and secret agendas are going to “take over” and destroy our country.
Thank you for speaking not only truth, but what should be common sense. Most of us practice our faith tradition because of where we were born in the world…and where we are born is not something any of us get to choose. But what we can choose is to love our neighbors of all faiths…and no faith at all.
I bet there are plenty of conservative Christians who still listen to the music of Yusuf Islam, Ice Cube, Sinead O’Connor; celebrate sports greats Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Muhammed Ali; and give credence to many others who have converted to Islam. There may be some selective discrimination going on.
There are many respectable sins in conservative evangelical/fundamentalist Christian culture. Defamation is one of them. To libel and slander the "other," speaking reckless untruths about them and their religion, is perfectly acceptable. In this way of thinking, the end justifies the means. But the way of Jesus is all about the means. He is the one who will handle the end.
Driscoll is an idiot. He only says these things as clickbait anyway. Unfortunately, he's an influential idiot and some people believe him, and likely obey out of the climate of fear of God he's built around himself. These kinds of leaders are what drives people away from Jesus.
Thank you for speaking not only truth, but what should be common sense. Most of us practice our faith tradition because of where we were born in the world…and where we are born is not something any of us get to choose. But what we can choose is to love our neighbors of all faiths…and no faith at all.
I bet there are plenty of conservative Christians who still listen to the music of Yusuf Islam, Ice Cube, Sinead O’Connor; celebrate sports greats Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Muhammed Ali; and give credence to many others who have converted to Islam. There may be some selective discrimination going on.
There are many respectable sins in conservative evangelical/fundamentalist Christian culture. Defamation is one of them. To libel and slander the "other," speaking reckless untruths about them and their religion, is perfectly acceptable. In this way of thinking, the end justifies the means. But the way of Jesus is all about the means. He is the one who will handle the end.
Brother Beau. 🔥
I chanted Psalm 137 for years on Athos. Not one monk walked out of the katholikon looking for Babylonian babies. We read: context, grief, silence.
“Islam is not a religion, but a regime.”
That’s not prophecy from Driscoll. That’s projection.
Rumi was a Muslim. Rabia was a Muslim. The God they burned for didn’t feel like a regime. It felt like home.
“You cannot love a neighbor you have to caricature.” Carving that into my prayer rope. 📿
Excellent!
Saving to share with the cringey FB posts I’m seeing.
Driscoll is an idiot. He only says these things as clickbait anyway. Unfortunately, he's an influential idiot and some people believe him, and likely obey out of the climate of fear of God he's built around himself. These kinds of leaders are what drives people away from Jesus.
Mark Driscoll is brilliant.