Posted on 07/29/2012 6:19:54 PM PDT by Morgana
United Methodist Rev. Wess Magruder has not only decided to observe the Ramadan fast this year with his Muslim friends, blog about his experience, but break his fast with Muslims as well. Last night, Magruder accepted the invitation of a local Muslim to eat “iftar,” the fast-breaking meal at the McKinney Islamic Association. Having succeeded in fasting from sunrise till sunset for eight consecutive days, the pastor appreciated God's grace in this communal meal. Most importantly, this celebration reminded him of the main reason why he had decided to fast: neighborly love.
Magruder writes on his blog how he has been feeling spiritually stale lately and how he was yearning to the old Christian fast that he believes Americans are not big fans of. Therefore, Magruder turned to the Muslim faith for inspiration since he knew that Muslims have successfully been fasting for 30 days each year during Ramadan for over fourteen hundred years. The Muslim fast is a total abstention from eating and drinking during the daylight hours. Furthermore, the fast goes beyond the stomach to include the eyes, the tongue, the ears, and all limbs which are expected to be trained to submit to the pleasure of God by refraining from ill manners and moral vice. A few Muslims succeed in attaining a heart-fast where they become spiritually submissive to the divine as well.
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Has he and his dhimmi congregation started paying their jizya yet?
fast with the muslims all you want. but you still can’t make a valid confession or be offered Holy Communion.
What an asshole.
There’s a better way to drop pounds.
Methinks this pastor needs to go back and read 2 Maccabees.
So this pastor is bending over backwards to prove how liberal he is. He’s bending over backwards to prove that he is not “Islamophobic”. He’s bending over backwards to earn the accolades from the MSNBC and Daily Kos crowd. The same crowd which tend to denigrate religion gives a place of honor to Islam specifically. Go figure.
methinks the pastor does not have that book in his Bible.
However you are correct.
So this pastor is bending over backwards to prove how liberal he is. He’s bending over backwards to prove that he is not “Islamophobic”. He’s bending over backwards to earn the accolades from the MSNBC and Daily Kos crowd. The same crowd which tend to denigrate religion gives a place of honor to Islam specifically. Go figure.
Who has our Methodist Ping?
>> The Methodist Church left me over a decade ago.
Where are you? Our congregation (central Texas) is not that way.
I wonder if he shared the gospel with any of these infidels. Of course this assumes he knows what the gospel is.
I wonder if the pastor knows that his “neighbor’s” religion requires him to kill his Christian neighbor unless he agrees to a status as a second class citizen.
Note to pastor: Gorging yourself before sunrise then gorging yourself after sunset is not fasting.
From this apostate’s blog (The New MethoFesto):
“I must know what it is like to worship God as a Muslim.
Perhaps then I will learn how to worship God … as a Christian.”
That’s all I needed to read. He makes me sick to be a UM. No direct references to Jesus. Just the “shared God” of muslims and Christians. Does he know how they describe Jesus in the Koran? Does he know what they say about Jesus’ role in God’s kingdom? They deny the Trinity, the divinity of Christ, the virgin birth, and the resurrection. And I bet that if you really cornered this guy and asked him about them, he would deny them too—if he couldn’t change the subject or weasel out of the question. I know because I had a leftist pastor just like him once.
There are plenty of Muslims that would be happy to help him loose the ugly 5 pounds above his neck.
Like, Americans are like, totally, not into it, man... so like, I'm like, going, you know, like all Muslim on them and shiite....I'm'a PROVE sumpin'!!!
(yeah, tell me it's not more than THAT!)
There is a time of fasting during the 40 days of Lent, if the pastor is so inclined. Can he do it?? We’ll see if he know about it. Some of us have done it...Drink a lot of water and some with enzimes.
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