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I found a link to this article today at The Corner. There’s a whole list of comments I could make here about the sillyness of this article, but I’ll pass because I’m sure others have done better. Well, maybe I’ll make one. To suggest that al Qaeda supports the emerging church movement is pretty ridiculous, in my opinion. Suggesting they have any interest in an internecine conflict in the American protestant church strains belief.
Moving on. What I find most interesting is how Frank Pastore paints extremist Islam with such a broad brush. From what I’ve read (and I’m not an expert by any means), Islam is just as fractured, if not more, as the western Christian church. Isn’t it interesting to think that al Qaeda probably has this vision of the “unified” Christian west and we think of them as the “unified” Muslim east? In reality, neither is probably true. But how much does that worldview shape our response to each other?
July 23rd, 2007 at 4:53 pm
Yeah, that article is just plain weird. Al-Qaeda doesn’t really give a hoot about what happens in Christianity (except when they rush to point out the “immoral” nature of the west i.e church scandals and the like).
Extremists on both sides seem to like lumping the enemy into this monolithic entity which must be destroyed.
It really is time for the sane people to step in and present a realistic depiction of the situation.
Cheers.