Posted on 01/22/2016 11:38:51 AM PST by Faith Presses On
The faculty council at an Illinois Christian college recommended Wednesday that the school end its effort to fire a professor who asserted while wearing a headscarf that Christians and Muslims worship the same God.
Wheaton College Faculty Council chairman Lynn Cohick said in a letter to her colleagues that the council unanimously agreed the termination effort against associate political science professor Larycia Hawkins should "be withdrawn due to grave concerns about the process."
Hawkins drew national attention when she began wearing a headscarf to show soldiarity with Muslims who had experienced what she called "vitriolic" rhetoric following the Paris and San Bernardino terrorist attacks.
"I stand in religious solidarity with Muslims because they, like me, a Christian, are people of the book,†Hawkins wrote on social media. “And [as] Pope Francis stated ... we worship the same God."
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In a statement Thursday, Wheaton said its administration respects the viewpoints of the faculty council. It added it is following the college's established process for handling employment decisions pertaining to tenured faculty members.
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Another story about Wheaton from last year:
"Evangelical College Defends Decision to Allow Homosexual Student Group on Campus" (June 2015)
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3296091/posts
Sounds like they need to fire more professors.
Apparently the Wheaton faculty council is politically-correct rather than theologically-correct.
It wasn’t comparing, it was equating. Christianity and Islam are about a similar as the Odyssey and the Aeneid. One culture attempts to hijack and make the success of a previous one’s story.
Like Musk Oxen circling to protect one of their own...
Wheaton was once a very respectable Christian college.
If it has faculty promoting or endorsing or attempting to legitimize Islam, those faculty need to be FIRED ... immediately. Not only is Islam an obviously wrong ‘religion,’ it is preaching and teaching and actually carrying out mass-murders of Christians, including even burning them alive in cages and crucifying some of them......plus all the Moslem bombings and razings of Christian churches, etc.
Clean house or lose it, Wheaton.
LOL!
I'm afraid that analogy went over most people's heads (mine included). I read Homer's Odyssey (and better yet, I also read the Classic ... and watched the Kirk Douglas movie - so I'm an expert), but I just heard about Virgil's Aeneid. I don't think they made the Classic version, and Michael Douglas apparently didn't think it was movie worthy - so I'll just take it at face value that it was a pale imitation of the Odyssey.
This house, college seems to be built on shifting sand.
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That is actually a brilliant analogy. Tip of the hat to a classicist.
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Brilliant analogy in that the Romans took the Greek story and INSERTED themselves into the tale which is what Mohammed did with the Koran - he inserted his made up faith into the Jewish tradition.
Well, time to write out some more pink slips.
Can’t she be fired for srupidity?
The point is that they don't worship the same prophet.
How many people did Jesus kill?
How many populations did Jesus invade with murderous brutality?
How many slaves did Jesus have?
How many people did Jesus torture?
How many women did Jesus rape and sell into slavery?
How many children did Jesus rape and sell into slavery?
The so-called prophet Mohammed is like Charlie Manson with less humanity.
We don’t worship the Muslim prophet, but I do believe the point is that we don’t have the same God, either.
Muslims might be “people of the book,” (meaning their book, the Koran), but Christians and Jews aren’t.
Jesus and His followers claimed He was divine, abd the Bible claims to be divine. Then the Koran claims to be divine. One is truth, and one is error, and when it’s a matter of divine agency and authorship, we can’t simply say that the one that’s wrong is the product of human error. The fact that the Koran teaches false things while claiming to be God’s Word makes it a work of antichrist. If it’s not inspired of the Holy Spirit, while claiming to be of God, then it’s of Satan, as any false teaching is.
And as usual, secular humanists also aren’t coming to this professor’s defense because they believe in Islam. They simply want Christianity undercut by humanistic views of religion. In that view, Jews, Christians, and Muslims all worship the same make-believe “god” whom Abraham believed in (if Abraham even existed,that is).
Furthermore, the actual confirmation of the Koran being of the antichrist is in the Bible itself:
2 John 7 I say this because many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, have gone out into the world. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist.
Islamic apologists specifically stress Christ’s non-deity and non-crucifixion. They deny the holiness of Christ by reframing him as a simple prophet. I am quite close to completely accepting Shoebat’s noticing that the Greek 666 matches the Islamic cross swords and “inshallah,” which are worn in some form by the Mujadeen. It may be that the antichrist is Islam itself.
My first thought exactly, upon reading this story. Let the extent of the cancer be seen, then excise it swiftly and decisively. Otherwise, another casualty of the great falling away becomes Wheaton College.
Having read the Quran several times over and do not defend Islamic apologetics, I can understand how Christians can become easily confused with Islam when it comes to Christianity and Judaism. Their confusion stems from how their so-called prophet stole stories from both Jewish and Christian biblical stories. Their so-called prophet used to listen to these stories in Mecca before he decided to form his own religion. To do so he kept the stories the same usually until almost the end where the stories would suddenly turn in favor of Islam.
The major story that was changed and gives credence to Islam, in the eyes of the muslim, is the story of how Abraham’s son Ishmael comes to what is now known as Mecca. Abraham performs a miracle by making water spout from the desert sand. This is said to have been done where the Kabala now stands and every year the muslims throw rocks at the well to fend off the evil spirits. The very notion that this story was changed to lay claim that Islam is part of the Abrahamic religions is totally fabricated based on the actual story found within the stories of the Bible.
Other stories follow the same path like Isa (Islam claims this is the name for Jesus but Isa does not exist in the arabic language.) spoke when he was in the manger. What did he say? Isa proudly proclaims from the manger that he is not a god only that he is a messenger. In their eyes Jesus is just another messenger like those that followed him. The qurap also states that Jesus was never crucified that an imposter was put on the cross and everyone believes it was Isa. I could go on.
These stories if not told in their entirety can easily confuse Christians and Jews because they don’t know the actual stories. How can a man not even there long long after the event occurred portend to know what actually happened? The answer he can’t. However people are duped.
One other thing, their so-called prophet saw and listened to an angel of light tell him that he was a prophet and messenger. The angel also spoke the words of God. Two things wrong here. First, the Old Testament clearly states that God will speak directly to you, never through his Angels. Second, the Bible also clearly states that the Angel in light is of Satan. Yes you read that right, the bible says the Angel in light is that of Satan. So this confirms right there in the qurap that their so-called prophet spoke directly to Satan and the words he revealed were of Satan (Shaitan).
I’ve tried to read the Koran, and have gotten through quite a bit of it, but it’s hard reading since it’s not spiritually inspiring.
I have read quite a lot about it, too, and I agree that many people just don’t know much about it. I know of the things you write of here, but never heard of them until about ten years ago, which is also around the time I first read the whole Bible and so really came to understand the Christian faith.
Until then, I’d just heard the propaganda that’s put forth about Islam, including that it is like a sister religion to Christianity, and that together with Judaism, all three faiths are “Abrahamic” and all their respective believers “people of the Book.”
The truth of Islam is being kept from people, but to begin with, knowledge of the Bible is on the decrease.
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