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John 14:6: I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
This is the passage some conservative evangelical Christians are using to bitch about the inclusiveness of interfaith services. Wren's Nest had an article that I can't link to, because AP keeps moving it around. But here's what one of the fundies says:
"We embrace tolerance in the right sense, which is religious freedom for all, without bigotry, while rejecting a misguided, misunderstood tolerance which sees all religious beliefs as equally valid," said the Rev. Richard Cizik, of the evangelical group, which represents 50 denominations. [...] "We do no one a favor by appearing to support a mistaken pluralism that pretends all religions are the same," he said.
Who the heck said the religions were 'the same'? Talk about a bad case of Don't Get It. Even better- one of the preacher is tattling to their Synod on a fellow man of the cloth who dared to attend the interfaith service at Yankee Stadium for the 9/11 victims:
"I wouldn't have brought charges if Jesus Christ was confessed in such a way that he stood out from the smorgasbord of gods," said [Rev. David] Oberdieck, pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in Lebanon, Mo.
I mean, come on, people. Before my head explodes with the conundrum of claiming to be tolerant of all religions while still being thoroughly irritated by these two (though I claim how they choose to express their beliefs, in this case in a petty and divisive manner, is what's irksome rather than the beliefs themselves), I will just quote Wren here:
"Let's see if we have this right: These guys aren't bigots; they are just better than everyone else and so is their god. Uh-huh."
This is the passage some conservative evangelical Christians are using to bitch about the inclusiveness of interfaith services. Wren's Nest had an article that I can't link to, because AP keeps moving it around. But here's what one of the fundies says:
"We embrace tolerance in the right sense, which is religious freedom for all, without bigotry, while rejecting a misguided, misunderstood tolerance which sees all religious beliefs as equally valid," said the Rev. Richard Cizik, of the evangelical group, which represents 50 denominations. [...] "We do no one a favor by appearing to support a mistaken pluralism that pretends all religions are the same," he said.
Who the heck said the religions were 'the same'? Talk about a bad case of Don't Get It. Even better- one of the preacher is tattling to their Synod on a fellow man of the cloth who dared to attend the interfaith service at Yankee Stadium for the 9/11 victims:
"I wouldn't have brought charges if Jesus Christ was confessed in such a way that he stood out from the smorgasbord of gods," said [Rev. David] Oberdieck, pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in Lebanon, Mo.
I mean, come on, people. Before my head explodes with the conundrum of claiming to be tolerant of all religions while still being thoroughly irritated by these two (though I claim how they choose to express their beliefs, in this case in a petty and divisive manner, is what's irksome rather than the beliefs themselves), I will just quote Wren here:
"Let's see if we have this right: These guys aren't bigots; they are just better than everyone else and so is their god. Uh-huh."
