Ottawans (IL) Answer in Arabic during 9/11 service

The Times ^ | 9/11/11 | Charles Stanley

[thatjoeguy]

Are you kidding me?

Glad I wasn't there (Ottawa, IL) I might have created a scene.

[Sherman Logan]

FWIW, there are many Arab Christians.

[ari-freedom]

I’m no fan of the BQ but if this was ottawa canada I’d rather hear it in French.

[squarebarb]

Our elite has decided that all things Arabic and Muslim are now fashionable.

And what the elite decides is final. And what is fashionable is mandatory.

[ZULU]

The United Methodist Church has been lost. It has been taken over by far-left, politically correct lunatics.

John Wesley would never recognize it today.

[silverleaf]

Or in an even more ancient language known to God- Hebrew

Maybe next year

[ClearCase_guy]

Just imagine on Sept 12 2001 if someone had announced:

In 10 years, the president's name will be Hussein.
In 10 years, this event will be commemorated with prayers in Arabic.
In 10 years, Muslims at airports will search Americans for weapons.
In 10 years, secular regimes across the Middle East will fall while terrorists seize power with American help.

You would have been locked up and put on Thorazine if you had said such things.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Epworth Untied Methodist church

I think it's time to tie them back up again.

[Impy]

Truth is stranger than fiction that’s for sure.

[AuH2ORepublican]

“FWIW, there are many Arab Christians.”

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Of course, and if it was a Maronite church it would be perfectly appropriate to respond in Arabic. (Although at the Maronite services I’ve attended in Florida they respond in English, with other parts in Arabic or ancient Syriac.) But why the heck are Protestant pastors asking people to respond in Arabic in Illinois? Then again, perhaps the author’s “Epworth Untied Methodist church” spelling wasn’t a typo, and the church really is “untied” (or at least unglued).

[arkady_renko]

Washington Square was the site of the Lincoln/Douglas debate. The park also received national attention when an atheist group protested the traditional Christmas display of religious paintings in the park.

[cricket]

"Hear Our Prayer" a good starting point and an easy one; for learning English.

Sorry; see no reason; save for Christians whose minds are gripped in the vice of Political Correctness - to the point of misunderstanding their own Christianity - to offer/invite, Arabic to be spoken at this Memorial service.

Would add; there appears a hint of hubris here; in their 'Christian humility' as well. But that brings us back to the bane of 'PC'. . .

[thatjoeguy]

You forgot;

In 10 years, there will be a mosque built near Ground Zero to commemorate the ‘victory’.

[ClearCase_guy]

Bam! Thanks for that addition!

[struggle]

Let me be the first to respond:

DURKA DURKA JIHAD AHLLAH DURKA!

[davisfh]

"The United Methodist Church has been lost. It has been taken over by far-left, politically correct lunatics.

"John Wesley would never recognize it today."

I'm afraid that you are right. I grew up in the Methodist Church before it became the "United" Methodist. As I and my wife traveled around during my military career, we found and attended several of the newly United Methodist churches and began to notice subtle changes. Though we didn't realize it at the time, the church had begun to push some sort of international agenda which really had nothing necessarily to do with Christianity. We were young at the time and, as the young often do, chose not to make a big deal of the changes taking place. Little did we know that the Methodist church would eventually undergo changes which would more closely couple it to some sort of UN agenda than to Christianity.

It's really sad and if you attempted to discuss these changes with members who have become mired in this non-spiritual behavior, you would be rebuked.

[xp38]

Lan Astaslem is all the arabic you need to know

[yldstrk]

I got fed up with hearing about good Muslims and the beauty of Hindu practice at our Methodist Church and went back to the Catholic church I grew up in.

[SierraWasp]

"and Wendy Asphahani of the First Congregational United Church of Christ"

This bees the Reverend Wright and Barack and Michelle Obama's church!!! (sorry about the Obanics)

This is awfully close to where I grew up in the 40's and 50's and it makes me seriously SICK!!!

[elpadre]

John Wesley lived and died an Anglican priest as did his brother and father. But I agree, he would not recognize the Methodist Movement he authored - nor would he recognize what the Church of England of today.