My Faith: Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), from Catholic to Muslim

CNN ^ | 9/1/11 | Chris Welch

[marshmallow]

Minneapolis, Minnesota (CNN) –Prior to 2006, few people even knew that then-Minnesota state legislator Keith Ellison was a Muslim. Because of his English name, he said, no one thought to ask.

But five years ago, when he ran for a seat in the United States House of Representatives - a race he would go on to win - word of his religious affiliation began to spread.

“When I started running for Congress it actually took me by surprise that so many people were fascinated with me being the first Muslim in Congress,” said Ellison, a Democrat now serving his third term in the House.

“But someone said to me, ‘Look Keith, think of a person of Japanese origin running for Congress six years after Pearl Harbor–this might be a news story.’”

Though Ellison's status as the first Muslim elected to Congress is widely known, fewer are aware that he was born into a Catholic family in Detroit and was brought up attending Catholic schools.

But he said he was never comfortable with that faith.

“I just felt it was ritual and dogma,” Ellison said. “Of course, that’s not the reality of Catholicism, but it’s the reality I lived. So I just kind of lost interest and stopped going to Mass unless I was required to.”

It wasn’t until he was a student at Wayne State University in Detroit when Ellison began, “looking for other things.”

[smvoice]

Yes Father protect us from deceivers who would seek those whom they would destroy. Protect us from the prince of the power of the air to blind those who have not received the gospel of their salvation. Help those who stand firmly in Your word, praying, reproving, rebuking all who would seek to destroy the finished work of Jesus Christ.

My prayer is to God, not St. Michael the Archangel.

[Uri’el-2012]

I thought your compatriots have been saying that works such as prayer, repentance, forgiving, worshiping, loving, clothing, feeding, visiting, healing, and the such were like so many filthy rags.

I think you are trying to reach for Isaiah 64:6.

shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach

[OLD REGGIE]

Consider also that in the NT, Mary and only Mary is called “Woman”, something John would have known well.

I find it interesting that in the first and last book of the Bible we find the woman. And again, only Mary is ever called woman. It’s not a coincidence

Really?

MATTHEW 15:28 Then Jesus answered her, "O woman, great is your faith! Be it done for you as you desire." And her daughter was healed instantly.

Luke 13
11 And there was a woman who had had a spirit of infirmity for eighteen years; she was bent over and could not fully straighten herself.

12 And when Jesus saw her, he called her and said to her, "Woman, you are freed from your infirmity."

JOHN 4:21 Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.

John 20
13] They said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She said to them, "Because they have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him."

15 Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Whom do you seek?" Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away."

[marbren]

I thought your compatriots have been saying that works such as prayer, repentance, forgiving, worshiping, loving, clothing, feeding, visiting, healing, and the such were like so many filthy rags.

If we do them, they are. If Christ does them through us they are not. He does the work we are just there for the ride. He is active we are passive. We rest He works. All glory is to God.

[Uri’el-2012]

The one letter Paul writes to Rome.......

That set of verses are ones to use as
armor and sword against those of Satan.

Paul is quoting from Proverbs 25

shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach

[Uri’el-2012]

The Harold Camping error is due to replacement theology.

Wasn't that started by the Roman "church" at Nicea ?

shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach

[Alex Murphy]

I thought your compatriots have been saying that works such as prayer, repentance, forgiving, worshiping, loving, clothing, feeding, visiting, healing, and the such were like so many filthy rags.

I believe you're referring to bloody menstrual rags?

And we are all become as one unclean, and all our justices as the rag of a menstruous woman.
-- Isaiah 64:6, Douay-Rheims Edition

[CynicalBear]

Oh the dangers of relying on anything other then scripture.

[CynicalBear]

Amen, Amen, and Amen

[OLD REGGIE]

Clearly that text (which the RSV -- NOT a Catholic translation -- begins "Great is the mystery of our religion, which I got crawled for quoting the other day") is known to us. We say The Son is God; The Son is not the Trinity. So, with that understanding, the text does not contradict what I said.

So if you are correct, the Holy Spirit as well as the Father each could have physical manifestations...And you call it what???

Not at all. It is not the 'job' of the Father or of the Spirit to be incarnate. It's not necessary. God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, which was the point of the thing. So no need for another manifestation.

Not from the RSV which is identical to the Catholic RSV Ignatius Edition.

Try the King James and compare it to Douay Rheims.

Any substantial difference?

[Natural Law]

"-- Isaiah 64:6, Douay-Rheims Edition"

Well, look what the cat dragged in. I should have known that you would respond on this topic.

FYI - I wasn't quoting Catholics so I didn't quote the Douay-Rheims translation. In fact, I didn't didn't use quotation marks so what is your point?

However, if you bother to check the KJV you will find "filthy rags" is the term used.

Thank you for playing.

[Alex Murphy]

"-- Isaiah 64:6, Douay-Rheims Edition"
Well, look what the cat dragged in.

Leave your cat's playtoys out of the discussion!

[marbren]

Whoever follows replacement theology does not have a clue about Israel. God will keep his promises!

[marbren]

Whoever follows replacement theology does not have a clue about Israel. God will keep his promises!

[Natural Law]

"Leave your cat's playtoys out of the discussion!"

Why, you are always good for a laugh.

[Uri’el-2012]

Whoever follows replacement theology does not have a clue about Israel. God will keep his promises!

Amen !

The writer of Hebrews comments:

Hbr 13:8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach

[boatbums]

LOL! Another thing we have in common, I grew up reading the dictionary and encyclopedias and whatever else I could. It sure helps with Scrabble and crossword puzzles. I do them in INK, too! :o)

[Alex Murphy]

Why, you are always good for a laugh.

So's your cat!

[Natural Law]

Unless you were the one taking the picture or juggling the cats I'm not impressed. Anyone can post a link to someone else’s work product.

[count-your-change]

MD, you're drifting away here. You asked the pilot question, if it makes a bad analogy it's yours.

Regional differences in word usage are not the same as jargon, the specialized language of a particular group.

” Even among co-authors usually one takes the lead”

Indeed so, and likewise among co-pilot and pilot, the pilot is boss but the author's or pilot's mother doesn't become co anything by virtue of carrying someone or being supportive of their work. The mother deserves much, certainly the Wright Bros. mama or Twain's does for whatever part they had but they're not co’s of either.

If the current and common usage of co changes I will go with that, after all I gave up shambles for abattoir.