A Saintly
Salmagundi reminded me of someone who makes my blood boil – Jack Chick. It’s
one thing to think Catholic teachings are unbiblical, but resorting to poor scholarship
and outright lies to turn people against the Church is un-Christian.
I’ve known some very peaceful and amicable practitioners of Islam. I’ve been told
that the Koran does not advocate violence. I haven’t read the Koran myself, so I
have to take their words for it. Based on this “bias”, it bothers me greatly
when people call Islam evil and fail to recognize that Allah is just as much the
God of Abraham as YHVH is (though Jews and Christians would take issue with Islamic
worship).
A GetReligion
post tackles the issue of Islamic beheadings. It is of particular interest to
me because a contributor to the post writes for the Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette. In what I’ve read, Ann Rodgers has always covered the Catholic
Church honestly and fairly.
Wow. Reading this entry at Jollyblogger really got me thinking. Righteous indignation is one thing. Self-righteous snobbery is another. I think I tend toward the latter and I need to work on that (no need to comment, John).
Advice to Christian Bloggers from G. K. Chesterton
This month's Gilbert Magazine (a magazine devoted to G. K. Chesterton) has a good little short piece called "Bad Christian Journalism and the G. K. Chesterton Remedy," by J. Fraser Field. Field starts with an example of what he considers "Bad Christian Journalism."
I wonder what color the sky is in this nut’s fantasy world.
‘Da
Vinci Code’ Author Left Out Material
Wed May 19, 3:34 PM ET
By KATE McCANN, Associated Press Writer
“CONCORD, N.H. – Though ‘The Da Vinci Code’ was contentious enough to produce
10 books attempting to discredit it, its author said he left out what likely would
have been the most controversial part.”
Some may wonder why I am so hard on John Kerry. Am I a Bush fan? Absolutely not. Right now "anybody but Bush" is a very popular voting slogan. I just want to show that the lesser of two evils is still evil. That, and I think he's an appallingly poor excuse for a Catholic.
BTW, this editorial reeks a bit of propaganda. However, I am loathe to believe that it was entirely fabricated.
THE SLANDER THAT MADE JOHN KERRY A STAR
Fri Apr 23, 2:15 AM ET
"Thirty-three years ago today, a young, unknown political activist named John F. Kerry sat down before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and unleashed a bitter verbal broadside against the war in Vietnam – and, with particularly harsh invective, against the young Americans who were fighting it."