Posted on 05/20/2019 6:55:23 PM PDT by marshmallow
A Darlington church is coming under fire after offering to cover up crosses and allow Muslims to say prayers in its building.
St Matthew and St Luke's had initially invited members of the Muslim community for an event next month to mark Ramadan.
It also offered different rooms to allow segregated worship for men and women.
Upon hearing about the event the Diocese of Durham intervened and told the church it must not hold Islamic prayers in the church building.
Rt Rev Dr Gavin Ashenden, a former chaplain to the Queen, is one of many to speak out.
Speaking to Premier, the Anglican Bishop of the Christian Episcopal Church in the UK said: "Clearly the motivation behind the event is very good. Anything that tries to get people together to understand each other and be good neighbors, is laudable and to be appreciated but it has to be done from a position of integrity.
Bishop Gavin has welcomed the intervention by the diocese but says he hopes lessons are learnt.
"They realise that the vicar made a silly mistake, but I'm glad it happened because it was raises in the public eye some important issues which people need to work through," he said. "Islam and Christianity are not Abrahamic cousins in Middle Eastern religion. They're actually antithetic to each other."
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Second Epistle of John!
If they do not come bearing the doctrine of the risen Jesus Christ, don’t let them enter your home, nor even so much as wish them Godspeed.
Try and hold a Christian service in their Mosque and carry your head out.
Most theologians who have degrees in cross-religious studies that I have spoken to have said that Islime is a bonafide religion and a religion of peace. When I asked them to point to the verses in the qurap that show this they all point to abrogated verses. When I tell them what they have been taught about Islime was given to man by the Angel of Light, most of them have no idea who the Angel of Light truly is. The greatest deceiver is the Angel of Light and this Church and its clergy have been deceived by the best of deceivers.
“If you are ashamed of me before men, I shall be ashamed of you before the Father.”
Islam is not Abrahamic. Mohammad was raised in a pagan religion. He adopted parts of Judaism and Christianity in to his new religion.
Islam is antithetical to every other religion and is intolerant to all other religions.
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