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March 26, 2007
New Zealand: Christian Denominations Divided Over "Anti-Islam" Seminars
First, the story: Christians split over anti-Islam seminars
Christian churches have splintered into opposing camps over the Mosque and Miracles conference which will discuss the "threat" of Islam in New Zealand.Leaders of the Anglican and Catholic churches distanced themselves yesterday from the event, while Baptist and evangelical churches vowed not to be "scared into naivety".
The July Mosque and Miracles conferences will feature Christian pastors from Australia giving seminars on Islam and its challenge to Western societies.
The Anglican Bishop of Christchurch, the Rt Rev Dr David Coles, said that after The Press coverage on Friday of Muslim outrage at the event he received several phone calls from church leaders. "They were saying this is dreadful stuff and we need to take the lead on this. It's definitely dangerous to start stereotyping Muslims in this country. It's very provocative and it often gets confused with immigration issues."
Conference organiser Murray Dillner told The Press last week that Islam "made a society implode" and "had a mindset to take over the world".
Commentary: The Christian denominations are split along political lines; the right-leaning Baptists and Evangelicals for the conference, while the left-leaning Anglicans and the politically schizophrenic Catholics against it.
But what is important to understand is the reasoning behind their positions. The opponents of the conference take "dialogue" with one's enemies to be a sacred duty, almost as a divine commandment. They believe steps that harm dialogue itself ought to be avoided. Thus, if a conference offends Muslims, the conference must be sacrificed so that dialogue may continue.
The Christians promoting the conference take dialogue to be a tool which may be used in achieving worthy objectives. They don't take dialogue itself to be a sacred duty to be observed at all costs. For them it is more important to know the truth than it is to appease Muslims.
It should be clear that the second position is the correct one. Truth takes precedence over dialogue. To begin with, what can be obtained from a dialogue at which you go willfully blind? Or for that matter, why would you trust a dialogue partner which insists you don't learn the truth about them? You are simply offering your naked back, and giving them the knife. It is far better to avoid naivette.
Posted by Ruy Diaz at March 26, 2007 8:59 PM
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They don't want to examine the doctrine of islam for their willful ignorance is from great hubris, thinking that humans and their cultures are all the same, that there are no differences between human beings, that theories are the Truth. Hugh Fitzgerald calls them yesterday's men. And they are.
But mostly I think, the mainstream Protestants are afraid, afraid of losing their possessions, afraid of death, afraid of living life. They have idiot compassion and are philosopher/charlatans. They represent the form of consciousness that thinks it's God. They should examine their roots, see what John Wesley thought of islam, and how the Anabaptists were raided and enslaved by islam.
Alas, the soul of these faiths has been sucked dry by the ghouls by the gramscian whores that drive them. By the mohammedans who exploit, rob and murder them. By their own scholars who proclaim that Christ is nothing more than a good man, and, God, well HE'S dead.
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at March 27, 2007 8:16 PM
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