Religious Leaders Make Mistake in Meeting with Iranian President Ahmadinejad

Will you provide some details as to who invited him, particularly on the part of the Episcopal church and when and where this is to happen?
Thanks.

Well, to say the holocaust didn't happen, what a joke! I guess he didn't see the documentary of the bodies being shovelled into the mass grave sights, the claw marks in the gas chambers from the people trying to escape, the carts which transported the bodies back and forth to the ovens. I saw documentation of the event. Live futage of bodies and the consentration camps. I saw the people walking away after the war had ended in their skeletal forms. God bless the families and the survivors who went through such a horrific crime which is almost too catastrophic to put into words! If a leader can deny that the holocaust existed, what else can he deny or discredit? It is so disheartening words can not express how grievous that this mentality actually exist. How do we protect them in other countries who have leaders which will murder you because you are a Christian or other ethnic or religious background?
Thanks,
Cara Floyd

The Holocaust deniers are the Christians, not anyone else. Hitler’s anti-Semitism grew out of his Christian education. Austria and Germany were majorly Christian during his time and they held the belief that Jews were an inferior status to Aryan Christians. The Christians blamed the Jews for the killing of Jesus. Jewish hatred did not actually spring from Hitler, it came from the preaching of Catholic priests and Protestant ministers throughout Germany for hundreds of years. The Protestant leader, Martin Luther, himself, held a livid hatred for Jews and their Jewish religion. In his book, “On the Jews and their Lies,” Luther set the standard for Jewish hatred in Protestant Germany up until World War 2. Hitler expressed a great admiration for Martin Luther constantly quoting his works and beliefs.

Now, you must remember before Hitler rose to Chancellor of Germany the country was in a deep economic depression due to the Versailles treaty. The Versailles treaty demanded that Germans made financial reparations for the previous war and Germany simply was not self sufficient enough in order to pay the debt. Hitler was the leader that raised Germany out of the depression and brought them back to a world recognized power. Due to his annulment of the financial woes of the Germanic people he became their redeemer and they anointed him as the leader of the German Reich Christian Church in 1933. This placed him in power of the German Christian Socialist movement which legislates their political and religious agendas. It united all denominations, mainly the Protestant/Catholic and Lutheran people to instill faith in a national Christianity.

Not only did evangelical Christian round up and slaughter 6 million Jews but they also slaughtered 5 million other non-Christians simply because they didn't accept Jesus Christ as their personal savior.

Speak Truth to Power is a phrase coined by the Quakers in the 1950's.
We have engaged and challenged in loving ways people with whom we have vemently disagreed -- from slaveholders to those restricting the rights of woman to those who would refuse war relief to 'enemy civilians.' For the latter work in particular the Quakers were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

I know from personal experience that this dinner will not be a one-sided opportunity for Amadinejad to push his beliefs, but one of real engagment where the office to which he was elected by the people ofIran will be honored, but the man who currently serves in that office will be strongly eldered -- in the deepest sense of Jesus's ministry.

Go to www.mcc.org for more information about this event.

You are correct that hard questions have been asked in past meetings and will be again. The involved organizations have made it very clear that they do not give a "free ride" on difficult questions. You can read statements from Mennonite Central Committee here. http://mcc.org/iran/meetings2008/index.html#controversy

NoIslamNoWay said: "...because Allah is not the God of the Bible!" and "because it also sends the wrong message to true believers in Christ."

True believers in Christ have nothing to fear from their perceived enemies, which is why the Bible specifically says the real enemy is "spiritual forces in of wickedness in heavenly places" not "flesh and blood". True believers in God know that the Bible also specifically says there is only one God, Creator and Sustainer of the Universe and that "there is none like" Him. That means God is God no matter what you choose to call him. Dialectially Al-lah and El-oi are the same thing.

NoIslamNoWay said: "Secondly, Islam is not just a religion. In fact, some question whether or not it is a religion at all, but a governmental/political system with designs on taking over the world that uses 'religion' as a facade."

Apparently you are unaware that the same nonsensical logic is used against Christianity and Judaism as well.

The only people who have anything to fear from this meeting are hypocrities who are afraid their own hypocrisy will be exposed when Ahmadinejad holds up the mirror...

After reading the article I would say, the Christian groups that put this dinner together are on to something. You, who wrote the article, are no better in condemning this action than the Pharisees were in condemning Jesus for his actions which did not fit the likings of the religious leaders of his day. That is why our (my) Christian Faith (not religious faith) is so radical, risky and contemptible from people like you.

The Jewish King Shlomo writes, "honor is not fitting for a fool [rascal]." He also says, "If you give honor to a fool, you arm him thereby, as if you're putting a stone in his sling[-shot]." Thus, a meeting with a killer Cultist may encourage him to continue in his own track (Ecclesiastes 8:11).
_ _ What commonality does Light have with Darkness (-Paul, 2nd Corinthians 6:14)? How can two people walk together if they are not in agreement (-Amos)? If a Thought-Bomb breaks the mind-control, then oneself might have an opportunity to gain influence in a Cultic mind.
_ _ One could, like a crazy fox, beg and grovel, beseeching to know whether a non-Muslim may chant, in the respectful manner of a Muezzin calling from a Minaret, the hard-to-understand, not-morally-related dogmas that are attributed to the Prophet in Moslem Scripture. King Abdullah II imprisoned people who sought to publish the life of Muhammad as told in Scripture.
_ _ If a devout Muslim invites you to a Ramadan event, do not smile, but with profound gravity, observe the fluxuations and confusion on his or her face. For oneself cannot fully delight in, nor be heartily devoted to, what the mind does not accept or somewhat understand.
Confer the Proboards.com account of the Cal. St. Univ., Northridge:
http://dailysundial.proboards30.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=33