tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4385205961037530446.post2025745219952638718..comments2024-01-01T23:41:52.452-05:00Comments on Staring at the View: A Wedding ConversationQuotable Quotes:http://www.blogger.com/profile/10875865758846571469noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4385205961037530446.post-57979347115711322012011-08-06T08:36:39.481-04:002011-08-06T08:36:39.481-04:00Very refreshing perspective of a delightful anecdo...Very refreshing perspective of a delightful anecdote. That little break of yours seems to be paying off in dividends :Daemishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04047123837698341809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4385205961037530446.post-9466121482385139752011-07-28T20:06:42.588-04:002011-07-28T20:06:42.588-04:00Welcome back!
I think when we're talking abou...Welcome back!<br /><br />I think when we're talking about how a community responds relationally to someone who violates the standards of the community and how a religion might enforce compliance on everyone we're talking about two different things. With that said, you're criticizing two different things.<br /><br />First, you're criticizing Islam for enforcing its standards on everyone by laws and group violence. This is the barbaric tyranny of Islam. A girl who wants to marry a kuffar may end up being the victim of violence or murder.<br /><br />But the second thing you're saying is quite a bit different. In a sense, you are criticizing the right (or choice) of people to assemble in communities and have relational/moral standards in the community. As an evangelical Chrisitian, I get this a lot. We would not accept members who lived as couples without being married. A person will say to me, "What business is it of yours?" Well, if they live down the street from me, not much at all, but if they want to join our church, that's quite a bit different. The same goes for how I raise my sons. I give them a standard of right and wrong and there are some choices that they could make that would have pretty serious relational consequences for our family.<br /><br />What the critic is saying is that his particular brand of secular humanism is the standard and that fundamentalistic revealed religions conflict with his standard, so they are harmful (or even should be suppressed). What he has done is expressed his desire for his religion of liberal secularism to have totalitarian control over all others.<br /><br />For every family that shuns an apostate from fundamental Christianity I can show you a family which which shuns an apostate from secular humanism or from the Democratic Party, etc.<br /><br />Of course I don't think you equate the two at all. Your job of pointing out the dangers and inconsistencies of Islamic totalitarianism is masterful.<br /><br />Thanks so much for writing and I'm sorry for writing so much.Cyril Lucarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09084426632079086253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4385205961037530446.post-85384848812012522482011-07-28T13:19:06.347-04:002011-07-28T13:19:06.347-04:00I've been having "Staring" withdrawa...I've been having "Staring" withdrawals. Glad to see you're back, and telling it like it is.Lonzo625https://www.blogger.com/profile/05007198017572822295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4385205961037530446.post-71777619912561149462011-07-28T09:32:22.282-04:002011-07-28T09:32:22.282-04:00Welcome back! Thanks for sharing about your inter...Welcome back! Thanks for sharing about your interesting post-wedding conversation! :)Susannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03115294023069458287noreply@blogger.com