Nah. Just plain fodder like, well, the Egyptian army in the book of Exodus.
Posted on 02/25/2007 4:02:36 PM PST by stan_sipple
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday said Iran bore no hatred towards the United States as he held talks with American Christians in a rare official contact with visitors from Tehran's arch enemy.
State television showed Ahmadinejad meeting with a dozen American representatives from various Christian orders who are in Iran for a week-long visit to promote peace and dialogue between the foes.
"The Iranian nation does not have any feeling of hatred and opposition towards the American people and we believe that all people are respectful and given the common grounds people have, they could achieve peace and justice," Ahmadinejad said according to official media.
"The US government has initiated and is continuing animosity against Iran," he told the assembled US delegation, made up of Mennonites, Quakers, Episcopalians, Catholics and United Methodists.
"Due to the repeated mistakes made by the American leadership, the image of the United States is becoming tarnished in the region," the president added.
The delegation, which arrived in Iran last week, has already met with leading Muslim clerics as well as religious leaders of Iran's Christian Armenian minority.
The trip by the US Christians comes after US religious leaders met Ahmadinejad during his visit to New York in September to address the UN General Assembly.
Iran and the United States have had no diplomatic relations since Washington severed ties in 1980 in the wake of the seizure of its embassy in Tehran by Islamist students.
However small groups of US media, sportsmen and tourists still visit the Islamic republic each year.
If anyone finds the names of the delegates, please do post them on this thread. I would be very interested to know the names.
The anti-Christ???
These leftist "Christians" don't represent the views of the membership of their denominations.
Jeff Carr is the Chief Operations Officer for Sojourners/Call to Renewal.
Rev. Dr. Shanta Premawardhana, associate general secretary of the National Council of Churches USA (NCC) for Interfaith Relations
Mary Ellen McNish, general secretary of the American Friends Service Committee.
Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) international program director, Ron Flaming.
Maureen Shea, director of the Episcopal Church's Office of Government Relations,
No Christian suicide bombers?
Who'da thought.
Would consider him an Anti-Christ candidate if it is in fact one person, but his ability to deceive does not seem all too impressive.
Or maybe I'm missing something.
Nah. Just plain fodder like, well, the Egyptian army in the book of Exodus.
ROFL! That's great!
Why am I not surprised...
Jim Wallis is of course the founder of each, and Glenn Palmberg, president of the Social Justice abdenomination the Evangecical Covenant Church of Americais awfully tight with him - they both sit on the board of Call to Renewal with inclusivist gay apologist Tony Campolo. Palmberg signs just about every bit of activist tripe Wallis comes up with. Elizabeth Palmberg is a goofy frequent contributor to Sojourners and I am dying to know if she's of any relation to Mr Glenn V Palmberg.
I wonder if any of these Christian visitors to Iran know ground zero Imam Feisal Rauf?
I don’t know.
I’m a Christian in the true sense, so I couldn’t tell you what those people are/were thinking.
A Look at Ahmadinejad:
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/ahmadinejad/index
A Look at Iran:
http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html
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