it'd be better if not one stone was left on top of another than this...
Posted on 11/10/2014 6:31:46 PM PST by marshmallow
Leaders explore hospitality and relationship while stressing message to people of faith across the globe
WASHINGTON -- Washington National Cathedral and five Muslim groups announced today the first celebration of Muslim Friday prayers (Jumaa) at the Cathedral on Friday, November 14.
Leaders believe offering Muslim prayers at the Christian cathedral shows more than hospitality. It demonstrates an appreciation of one another's prayer traditions and is a powerful symbolic gesture toward a deeper relationship between the two Abrahamic traditions.
What: Muslim Friday Prayers at Washington National Cathedral
When: Friday, November 14, 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Who:
*The Rev. Canon Gina Campbell, director of liturgy for Washington National Cathedral
* South African Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool
* All Dulles Area Muslim Society
*Council on American-Islamic Relations
*Islamic Society of North America
*Muslim Public Affairs Council
Masjid Muhammad, The Nation's Mosque
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it'd be better if not one stone was left on top of another than this...
I’m Catholic & I don’t know about any connection between Martin Luther & Islam so can we just knock it off with the Thirty Years’ War stuff & concentrate on our common enemy the Muslim Khalifate?
IIRC Luther did say, “I would rather be operated on by a Turkish surgeon than by a Christian butcher.” That just could have been a joke.
It was not always so. During the Middle Ages you could not find a Christian in Europe who did not believe that the Crusades were an act of highest good. Even the Muslims respected the ideals of the Crusades and the piety of the men who fought them.
But that all changed with the Protestant Reformation. For Martin Luther, who had already jettisoned the Christian doctrines of papal authority and indulgences, the Crusades were nothing more than a ploy by a power-hungry papacy.
Indeed, he argued that to fight the Muslims was to fight Christ himself, for it was he who had sent the Turks to punish Christendom for its faithlessness. When Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and his armies began to invade Austria, Luther changed his mind about the need to fight, but he stuck to his condemnation of the Crusades. During the next two centuries people tended to view the Crusades through a confessional lens: Protestants demonized them, Catholics extolled them. As for Suleiman and his successors, they were just glad to be rid of them.
http://www.ignatiusinsight.com/features2005/print2005/tmadden_crusades_print.html
How sweet. I didn't read the whole article. Did it list the dates and times when Christians and Jews will hold their services at a Mosque in DC?
Will women be allowed to attend?
Yeah, you know, that HUMONGOUS Cathedral in DC that lets “Transgendered Priests” hold Mass.
(Reuters) - An Episcopal chaplain on Sunday became the first openly transgender priest to preach at the historic National Cathedral in Washington D.C.
The Reverend Dr. Cameron Partridge, one of seven openly transgender clergy in the Episcopal Church, spoke from the Canterbury Pulpit in honor of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community’s Pride Month, the Cathedral said.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/22/us-usa-washington-dc-cathedral-idUSKBN0EX0WH20140622
By the way, in spite of what it might seem like, I am not looking to slander or bash Protestants.
Just hoping you all get your act together.
You do realize these are Anglicans not Lutherans. Don't you? Anyway Luther had no truck with Mohammedans.
I hear they like kids a lot (four and two legged varieties). ......
ROFL!!! So it was Luther’s fault that the Pope was the first to include Muslims. It was the fault of Luther that the Catholic Church says the Muslims serve the same god they do? Oh that’s rich!!!
>>It was not always so. During the Middle Ages you could not find a Christian in Europe who did not believe that the Crusades were an act of highest good. Even the Muslims respected the ideals of the Crusades and the piety of the men who fought them.
Interesting bit of revisionist history. In the Middle Ages, the people said what the Roman Church told them to say. The Popes blessed the Crusades, so the people had to agree. The Muslims may have respected the ideals, but they did not support the Crusades as being right or just. Only 21st Century Progressives are so stupid that they would claim that the enemy is right.
Again, Luther didn’t jettison anything. He was excommunicated and was in hiding when the people, under other leadership, left the Roman Church in droves and destroyed the churches, idols, and attacked the priests. The people jettisoned the corrupt church that Rome had become. The fact that Rome held the Council of Trent bears out the fact that Rome knew that it had gone too far in its worldliness and mistreatment of the common folk.
Something like that (I would rather be governed by a wise Turk than a foolish Christian) was attributed to Luther but he never said it.
You should be conversing with your co-religionist then.
Old news, obviously not taken into account by the composers of the Catholic Catechism. Heal thyself Physician, or least accept the blame due for this state of affairs.
Big mistake. This will just establish a claim, and then next thing, they’ll want to take it over like the Hagia Sophia and Cordova Cathedral in preparation for the global Caliphate.
No problem, you hear about it so often, but it and the lists of dogmas required for salvation are really interesting.
Interesting observations, I do appreciate the feedback and information.
Again, while not a fan of Luther and what the Reformation has wrought and believe we are suffering the consequences of his actions to this very day, I am not about bashing fellow Christians, and did not mean to offend anyone.
Except homosexuals and communists.
Found no doubt in the words of Christ? 'Papal' and 'indulgence' chapter and verse. Or did you mean 'Catholic' doctrines?
Of course not, that's obvious.
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