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Monday February 4, 2008
Categories: Islam
Seeing that Church of England Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali is now under police protection after having received death threats for asserting that -- wait for it -- some Islamic parts of England had become no-go areas for Christians, and that some...
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Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.
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After finding this randomly-generated New Yorker cartoon today in the margin of a new Hendrik Hertzberg "Talk of the Town" essay, I now have a mental template for all such stories as that Rod posted above:
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Typical. I can't take any religion seriously that worships a god so weak as to demand that it's adherents have to kill to defend their gods honor. Really. I'm mean a god should at least be omnipotent before you throw in your loyalty. If the god can't defend itself, it can't defend a devotee.
They're behavior reminds me more of street gang members killing people for walking on their turf or stepping on their sneakers than God followers.
Of course if you going to strap bombs to young women with Downs syndrome and send them to a pet store maybe your hold on morality is tenuous at best.
Hrmpf.
The death threats directed at Bishop Nazir-Ali essentially prove his thesis.
My money is on an invocation of Manning's Corrolary in less than 10 posts. Any bets?
This is five, what are you betting, its too early for beer though.
I'd go along with your bet, Mark, but we're cheating by using up posts discussing the bet.
Never to early for beer, IMHO.
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