Posted on 07/15/2008 11:41:21 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Christian doctrine is offensive to Muslims, the Archbishop of Canterbury said today.
Dr Rowan Williams also criticised Christiaity in history for its violence, harsh use of punishments, and its betrayal of its peaceful principles.
His acknowledgement of Christian faults came in a highly conciliatory letter to Islamic leaders calling for an alliance between the two faiths for 'the common good'.
It risked fresh controversy for the Archbishop in the wake of his pronouncement earlier this year that a place should be found for Islamic sharia law in the British legal system.
The letter to prominent Muslim scholars comes at a time when Dr Williams is facing immense pressures from inside his own Church of England and Anglican Communion.
A gathering of Anglican bishops from around the world that begins tomorrow is on the brink of a devastating split over whether homosexuality and gay clergy should win their approval.
The Archbishop's letter is a reply to feelers to Christians put out by Islamic leaders from 43 countries last autumn.
In it, Dr Williams said that violence is incompatible with the beliefs of either faith and that, once that principle is accepted, both can work together against poverty and prejudice and to help the environment.
He also said that the Christian belief in the Trinity - that God is father, son and Holy Ghost at the same time - 'is difficult, sometimes offensive, to Muslims.'
Trinitarian doctrine conflicts with the Islamic view that there is just one all-powerful God.
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Thanks. After reading the procedures for selecting the new Archbishop of Canterbury and seeing how few people are actually involved in the selection process, it is very easy to understand how such a poor choice could be made.
This man is a raving lunatic, as well as both vile and evil.
He loathes Christianity and is actively seeking its destruction at the blood soaked hands and swords of the mohammedan horde.
I fully expect to hear eventually he had a conversion to the mohammedan cult in the past several years and has retained his post as archbishop in order to help facilitate the infiltration and subjugation of England.
How better to destroy the faithful than to subvert the teachings of G_d with the ravings of the demon inspired mohammed than from the inside of a church?
Big Big BUMP
You mean non-monotheist.
I doubt the Wahabbis care one way or another about monophysitism—the postion that Christ has but one nature—as opposed to dyophysitism—the position that Christ subsists fully in two natures, divine and human.
Thanks for the correction. I was either typing too fast or accepted the wrong word on spellcheck. :-))
Out of the abundance of his bowels his mouth speaks.
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