Ayatollah Nasser Makarem-Shirazi and Church leaders
Posted on 10/13/2007 4:27:16 AM PDT by tellw
World religious leaders should establish close relations since they all advocate global peace, Ayatollah Nasser Makarem-Shirazi says.
"Religious leaders can relieve humanity's suffering as they all support a world without war and immorality," Ayatollah Makarem-Shirazi told Washington Bishop John Bryson Chane and his delegation in the Iranian city of Qom on Wednesday.
Ayatollah Makarem-Shirazi said religious leaders can pave the way for religions to converge and play a more significant role in the restoration of global peace through interacting with each other.
“Iranian Muslims have peacefully coexisted with Christians and followers of other religions for years,” he stated. “They are free to carry out their religious obligations.”
The bishop, for his part, said peace is a gift from the prophets, adding that love, affection and forgiveness are recommended by Jesus Christ and create hope for the future.
Chane said his delegation's visit to Iran was aimed at exchanging scientific and research information between Iran and the United States.
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Ayatollah Nasser Makarem-Shirazi and Church leaders
where’s a good bath house in Qom?
More useful idiots of the Islamic Fascists. The hypocrisy of the Western Left is overwhelming. They go hold hands and sing kumbya with the leaders of regimes that executes homosexuals and keep women in bondage and then come home and rail against our “intolerant” society!
YEAH! WE have a lot to learn from a society that still executes women for "witchcraft".
But there are no gays in Iran.
Everytime I see the words “Episcopal Bishop”, or Episcopal Priest” in the headlines nowadays, I know that I’m fixing to be a little less proud of being an Episcopalian.
So what kind of scientific and research information is this bishop exchanging with Ayatollah? I can tell from what he claims the prophets and Christ recommended he is not much of a Bible scholar.
Bishop Chane and Canon Peterson have also announced that they will host a conference in Washington on U.S.-Iran political dialogue on Oct. 29, to which they have invited Trita Parsi, a noted apologist for the Iranian regime who was widely seen with President Ahmadinejad during Ahmadinejad’s recent U.S. visit.
http://www.newsmax.com/timmerman/liberal_bishop/2007/10/11/39998.html
You know if the sentence ended with the words "centuries" I just might belive him
Bishop Chane is so disposed to the support of gays within the Church that in his work he actually antagonizes those who disagree with him and helps guarantee the ineluctable split between Anglicans and Episcopalians. His dislike of the Anglican leadership of the Church of Nigeria is public fodder. In sum, St. Paul warned of people like Chane, and in one form or another they have been in the Church from the beginning.
without Jews, Christians, Buddhists, Agnostics?
Ayatollah Makarem-Shirazi said religious leaders can pave the way for religions to converge...
Yes, that's exactly what my understanding of what Islamic religious leaders in Iran and elsewhere have as a goal: to "converge".
The NH Gay Bishop should have gone. Might have solved a problem in one fell swoop.
“Iranian Muslims have peacefully coexisted with Christians and followers of other religions for years,” he stated. “They are free to carry out their religious obligations.”
Yes, during the Shah’s regime there was considerable Christian dialogue, cooperation and peace - not since!!
Everything the word Episcopal pops up, it is a question of what part of christainity is he attacking now.
The only question here is whether this democrat stoog is attacking bush or looking for a date with a moslem.
“Ayatollah Makarem-Shirazi said religious leaders can pave the way for religions to converge and play a more significant role in the restoration of global peace through interacting with each other.”
Next to politicians, church leaders have failed miserably through the centuries to make or keep national, regional or world peace. Christian laymen have been extremely successful - at least those who wear the uniform of the USA.
Those who make peace are those who believe in it so much they are willing to fight for it. That is the USA and its Armed Forces.
Europe has been at peace for 60 years because of the USA, never before that. Japan always a warlike nation has been at peace for 60 years because of the USA, ditto South Korea. Wherever and whenever the military has been allowed to complete their mission - there has been peace and liberty and prosperity.
Yeah, not believing in Islam is immoral to them.
No thanks
"Without war" ..... meaning they win, we roll over.
"Immorality" ..... meaning believing in anything other than islam.
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People who fall for this are fools.
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