Grabbing at random from the email bag left me with this noxious bit of jellyfish on my hand.
Chrislam!
FYI: Below Leo Hohmann (WND news editor/author of Stealth Invasion) excoriates Christian church leaders who allow the reading of the Quran in their churches:
“Allowing the Quran to be read inside a church is the equivalent of the ancient Israelites setting up an image of a false god in the Holy of Holies,” Hohmann declared. “It’s blasphemous. Why? Because the Quran denies the deity of Christ, denies that God is a Father or that he had a Son, and also denies the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ. What’s left of Christianity that Islam and the Quran do not deny?
Hohmann also exposes heresy in the Catholic church where Tri-Faith Initiative of Omaha, NE, members perpetrated lies against Christian scripture:
“During his address to the Omaha Catholics, the imam [Mohammad Jamal Daoudi, spoke for 30 minutes in front of the altar at St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church in Omaha] denied Christ, denied the crucifixion, denied the resurrection and denied the authenticity of the Bible – all with the blessing of the church’s priest, Father Tom Bauwens.”
If not the anti-Christ, this Deceived Pope is at best, destroying Catholicism with heresy (Universalism, too?)…passing it on to his Deceived cardinals/ priests…and onto their flocks. More proof of creeping Sharia, civilization jihad. c
http://www.wnd.com/2017/11/
quran-sneaking-into-christian- settings/
And then more, which I omit.
On its face, it seems a standard bit of hatred-sowing, but I wasn’t entirely sure. Once I decided to research it, the first thing I noticed was the source – wnd.com. News is rarely real news when it’s single sourced, and when it’s not, then you may be able to get different viewpoints and a better understanding of the issue, so as I started searching I looked forward to hearing other views.
And here’s the thing – the wnd.com site listed in the mail came out right on top of the listings – but nothing else did except the Church announcement that this talk would take place. I didn’t find a transcript, I didn’t find a discussion, I didn’t even find similar outrage from other right wing sites.
So back to our source. This is WorldNetDaily, a well-known right wing extremist Christian site (which is why I was initially very wary). What does that mean in this context? Well, you could go look for yourself. Right at the moment, I see they’ve bought into the accuse your ideological opponents of those things you or your allies have been caught doing, as their top headline is Obama Used ‘Illegal Propaganda’ On Americans. The article is quite a stretch, and I didn’t try to verify that it actually speaks to anything in particular. The balance of the front page actually descends into, well, gibberish. No kidding. Maybe if I had taken that Creative Grammar class in college … or, to borrow from my Arts Editor, could speak in tongues.
And I was also struck, as I read the original article from which this email was extracted, how this really isn’t standard, honorable journalism, because peppered throughout the article were ads for the author’s book, which appears to be on the same subject. This isn’t how journalism’s done, folks.
But the point is, of course, that it’s single sourced “news” and even their allies aren’t paying attention to it. Did these things really happen?
Hell if I know – and I do mean that precisely. I wasn’t there. No one who was – excepting perhaps the author of this screed – seems to think it was worthy of mention. On the church calendar, the event actually included a rabbi, another reverend, along with Bauwens and Daoudi. These events are actually fairly common, as the various faiths look for commonality rather than mutual hatred.
And, for whatever reason, that hatred is the goal of the screed. They’ve taken what appears to be an attempt at building a stronger heterogeneous community, good for everyone, and tried to use it as a poison. Using it to accuse those who pursue peace of engaging in heresy – one of the silliest concepts in the theological landscape – has about as much moral weight as the Massacre of the Cathars for whatever little change they made to theological interpretations.
It’s a poison to the community of the reader.
And I lied a little bit up there. I said, “And, for whatever reason …” But I think I know the reason. If you’re honest, you know the reason as well. It’s for power, isn’t it? It’s for knowing that they’ve persuaded a few more people to leave the path of peace and move to the pursuit of war. Can you see The bulging eyes as the man holds the Bible over his head and invokes all sorts of terrible curses on those he hates? He does this because he knows there are those who let themselves get all het up without actually checking on the facts and the motivations. And he can use that, because then the reader will come back and read wnd.com for more of those emotional ups and downs.
You’re just a pair of eyeballs to them, full of cash and votes. But you have free will. You can decide if you’re going to be rocked by this dubious piece of trash – or if you’ll give it a good going over and then maybe not pass it on to your friends.
