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guillaumeb's JournalBenjamin Corey, Progressive Christian Blogger, Asks Me 4 Questions on Islam......
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Read more at http://www.patheos.com/blogs/askamuslim/2017/12/benjamin-corey-a-progressive-christian-blogger-asks-me-4-questions-on-islam-christmas-jesus-and-mary/#oMsGzc3WpBYAls8u.99
The Muslim Atheist and Friends: How To Peacefully Engage With Muslim Dissenters
From the article:
After all, the title of the most infamous book on Muslim dissent out there is ‘The Atheist Muslim’ by my Facebook friend, Ali A. Rizvi. The subtitle of his book is ‘a journey from religion to reason’. What this implies or rather insinuates is that religion is devoid of reason and that the journey towards atheism involves the use of reason to dispel myths. This is clearly a privileged view of reason but it is not atypical of the New Atheist movement (whom I term as ‘Atheo-fascists’).
Read more at http://www.patheos.com/blogs/personalislam/2018/02/muslim-atheist-friends-peacefully-engage-muslim-dissenters/#odaIv4DZoabE5uMa.99
My day in Trump America (WARNING DARK HUMOR ALERT)
I woke up in my bunker. After checking the observation portal for any sign of an agent of our tyrannical government, I put on my Kevlar and buckled on my holster. Grasping my AR-15 firmly in hand, I walked my guard dog around the bunker, making sure to avoid the mines and razor wire.
Surviving that, I went back in and turned on FOX News as I prepared my breakfast. More news about potential gun grabbers coming for my weapons simply because there was another massacre at a school this month. why do these gun grabbers always want to politicize these things? Lots of countries have 18 massacres in 2 months. Well, some countries might have 18 massacres in 2 months. Those that do not are those countries where their tyrannical governments do not allow their citizens to carry weapons of self-defense. Poor unarmed citizens.
Getting ready to go out, I buckled on my vest, my arm guards, my knives, some brass knuckles, my 3 handguns, 1 visible, 2 concealed, and put my rifle on my back.
Then I picked up my Power Ranger lunch box and Mom walked me out to wait for the APC to take me to school.
Where is the "right to life movement" when children are killed at school?
Are school children too old, being definitely in a post-fetal phase, so to speak, of their lives?
Is the right to life a right that expires shortly after birth?
Is the right to life limited to rich white lives?
Is the right to life secondary to the right of some few (mainly) males to parade around with weapons?
Hey Muslims, Lets Join the NRA. We Could Help Solve Gun Violence.
From the article:
Yet three little letters make gun control nearly impossible in the United States: NRA. So how do you stop a group that’s been dubbed the “the baddest force in politics”..............?
Well, I may have an outside-the-box solution that would not require any loss of life: Why don’t all of America’s Muslims just join the NRA? Yep, all of them. Every. Single. One. Of. Them.
To read more:
https://theintercept.com/2018/02/17/nra-membership-muslim-florida-shooting/
Now some might ask why I posted this here, in the Religion Group. It is because some people have branded Islam as a religion of violence.
Signs of progress in religion?
My wife and I attended a celebration service in honor of the life of a woman who recently died. We have known the family for many years, and the service was very inspirational both in format and content.
The family, and the deceased daughter, are/were mainline Protestant, and I was prepared for what I imagined that the service would be.
There were, as I expected, Scriptural readings from the Old and the New Testament, but there were also readings from the Koran as well as Buddhist sources.
The mother read from the Koran, and spoke of how Christians and Muslims worship the same God, but in a different fashion. The sister of the deceased read from Buddhist sources, and spoke of a spiritual journey.
When the Minister spoke, he embraced and agreed with these readings and the sentiments expressed, and spoke also of our common journey as theists in search of the Creator.
I live outside of Chicago, and this particular area is an island, so to speak, of GOP officeholders, in a generally blue area, so one might have expected the Minister and the Congregation to be more conservative in worship and sentiment, but this was more like a Unitarian service than what I felt it would be.
Thoughts?
Paul Ryan says that now is not the time for partisan politics.
And he is correct. Now is the time for real leadership. Unfortunately for the country, and for the many victims of gun violence, the GOP is essentially a wholly owned subsidiary of Koch Enterprises and the weapons manufacturers who control the NRA.
So unless or until voters recognize this and stop electing these corporate controlled clowns, nothing will change on gun regulation, the tax code, labor law, the environment, renewable energy, healrthcare, or any of the urgent needs in this country.
Private school vouchers are a threat to religious freedom
From the article:
First, public money should fund public schools, which serve 90 percent of American students. Public schools are a unifying factor in our diverse country and their doors are open to all students, regardless of their religion. Private schools, however, serve only a few, select students.
To read more:
https://religionnews.com/2018/02/14/private-school-vouchers-are-a-threat-to-religious-freedom/
Abnormal is the new normal.
Nazis openly running for office on the GOP ballot in Wisconsin and Illinois,
the GP actively collaborating with Putin to subvert democracy,
school shootings and assorted instances of mass gun murder as regular news items,
an admitted serial abuser of women endorsing a pedophile for the Senate,
an admitted serial abuser of women defending other serial abusers of women as fine people,
a President calling Nazis and Klansmen fine people,
levels of economic inequality rivaling 1929,
and FOX news actively working to dumb down the voting population in service to the 1%.
Abnormal is definitlely the new normal.
The GOP is all about freedom.
That is what they like to say. But when looking at what they say:
The GOP is all about ensuring the freedom of anyone to carry a weapon of death nearly anywhere,
but they say nothing about the freedom to be free from random gun violence.
The GOP is all about ensuring the freedom of big business to pay minimal wages,
but they are opposed to the freedom of workers to form unions.
The GOP is all about ensuring the freedom of billionaires to keep all of their money,
but they are opposed to US citizens freely voting for sensible regulations on business and billionaires.
The GOP is all about ensuring the freedom of a fetus to be carried to term,
but they are opposed to women freely excercising their own Constitutional rights.
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