“Both the Koran and the hadiths effectively divide all of mankind into two camps. Muslim commentators call them the ‘House of Islam’ and the ‘House of War.’ Translation: Anyone who is not a Muslim is assumed to be rejecting Islam. Rejecting Islam equates to attacking Islam, Mohammed and even God. Attacking Islam makes one its …
Wound Too Tight
“Compulsion in such things as we are speaking of is to strain justice so high as to make it the peak of justice, which is the degeneration of it . . . If justice is wound up a peg too high it breaks” (Burroughs, Irenicum, p. 83).
Religion of Peace
“Multiple unabashed Muslim sources varyingly describe Mohammed himself presiding over the beheading of at least 500 Jewish men, five at a time. Their bodies were buried in a long ditch. Other Muslim sources place the number of Jewish men slain as high as 900. Their wives and daughters became sex slaves for Muslim men . …
Humility Produces Great Art
“But even if artists did not have the high honor we tend to grant them today . . . they did make beautiful things—so beautiful, in fact, that we so many centuries later still go to look at their works and often pay much to have their works restored in order to hand them down …
A Ditch on Both Sides of the Road
“Some think all things should be suffered, and they are loose and cause divisions on the one hand. Others think nothing is to be suffered, and these are rigid and cause divisions on the other hand” (Burroughs, Irenicum, p. 69).
Pious Mutilation
“Islam’s widespread practice of amputating the clitoris and sometimes part or even all of the vulva from the genitalia of Muslim women, affirmed in a hadith by Mohammed himself, most like also traces back to the founder’s deliberate abuse of sex to lure pagan males into his cult” (Don Richardson, Secrets of the Koran, p. …
When Art Was Real
“The role of artists was not always what it is today. In most cultures, including our own before the new period that began somewhere between 1500 and 1800, artists were primarily craftsmen: art meant making things according to certain rules, the rules of the trade. Arts were accomplished workers who knew how to carve a …
Charismatics Don’t Believe that Prophecy is for Today Either
“More than a few pastors have wondered whether they are being theologically dishonest in saying that the ‘sign gifts’ are no longer operative in the church today. True, the charismatic movement gives us great reason to be suspicious, and it is a pleasure to be prejudiced and bigoted sometimes, especially when Benny Hinn is involved, …
Sixes and Sevens
“If we have attained but to six, and our brethren have attained to seven, let us walk together lovingly to the six. If God shall later reveal the seventh (we will promise to pray and study in the meantime), we shall walk with them also. Why must it now be urged with violence, so as …
Coolness Quotient (CQ)
Finally someone came up with a way to objectively measure this. I was quite pleased. Take the “coolness” test now. HT: David Field