I surreptitiously stumbled across an author and a book that has become a nexus point in my spiritual life. The author is Dr. E. Michael Jones and the book is Logos Rising: A History of Ultimate Reality. What I could find out about the book intrigued me and fortunately, since it would take a while…
Category: Islam
Conflict and War, Islam, Religion, Rimdims, Terrorism
Rimdims #6: Ritual Impurity
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Considering the lengths that radical Muslims go to “protect” their ritual purity (e.g. Ayatollah Khomeini, after the Iranian revolution, declared that all non-Muslims were impure. He said that to wash the clothes of non-Muslims (you have to touch them), to eat with non-Muslims (sharing food), or to use personal items touched by non-Muslims (such as…
Christianity, Islam
On Islam and Christianity
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Muhammad brought down from heaven and put into the Koran not religious doctrines only, but political maxims, criminal and civil laws, and scientific theories. The Gospels, on the other hand, deal only with the general relations between man and God and between man and man. Beyond that, they teach nothing and do not oblige people…
Christianity, Islam, Religion
Evangelical Ship Taking on Water
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Sometimes when you read something someone else has written, something they say or a quote they use, it sparks a line of thought. I just ran across my comments to Dr. Mike, over at Eternal Perspectives on a post he wrote: MacArthur Endorses Book on Discernment. He was discussing the book Who Are You to…
Christianity, Culture & Social Issues, Islam, Religion
Canaries in the Coal Mine
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Whenever there are fundamental shifts coming in human events there are “canaries in the coal mine” occurrences that presage the actual displacement. These small seismic shifts alert those paying attention that the “big one” is coming. As Jesus said to his listeners: And in the morning, ‘It will be stormy today, for the sky is…
Christianity, Culture & Social Issues, Islam
The Real War
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Some people believe the war we (the U.S. and Western Civilization) are currently engaged in is with Al Qaeda and the arbiters of radical Islam. While it is true that we are fighting those elements in several places around the world, including the home front, our real war is a war that goes way beyond…
Christianity, Islam, Media, Terrorism
What’s in a Name? Part II:
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What you call something is significant. In a much maligned recent miniseries on CNN, God’s Warriors, Christiane Amanpour, who produced and anchored the program, said the following while discussing martyrdom: To the West, martyrdom has a really bad connotation because of suicide bombers who call themselves martyrs,” Amanpour stated. “Really, martyrdom is actually something that…
Christianity, Islam
What’s in a Name?
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In more ancient cultures, names were significant. They were much more than usually likable monikers attached to people, places, or things. Recently, names have grown appendages. We are no longer Americans. We are [insert modifier here]-Americans. We are no longer Christians. We are Pentecostal, Charismatic, Evangelical, Mainline, Independent, Bible-believing, Non-denominational, [insert your favorite here] Christians.…
Christianity, Culture & Social Issues, Islam, Religion, Terrorism
Culture: Islam vs. Christianity
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Christianity began as a subculture to the existing culture and can be see as such in many areas of the world today. It can honestly be said, despite Western Civilization’s sometimes claim to the contrary, that there is no Christian culture, only cultures with Christian influences. For Islam, it is the only culture and it…
Islam
Borgislam
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In the science fiction series Star Trek, the most devastating enemy the free peoples of the galaxy ever faced were the Borg, an assimilating race that destroyed all before it and made it part of the Borg Collective. “Resistance is futile” was the battle cry and indeed they were almost impossible to defeat. It was…