Who Said That?

"We, as Christians, humbly seek to join Muslims in this observance of Ramadan as a God-honoring expression of peace, fellowship, and neighborliness. Each of us will have at least one Muslim friend who will serve as our partner in the fast. These friends welcome us in the same spirit of peace, fellowship, and neighborliness."

Leave your guess in the comments section below.  Please, no google searches or cheating.  Answer to follow next week.

Update on Sunday, August 23, 2009 at 09:41PM by Kim Riddlebarger

This is a recent quote from Brian Mclaren's blog.  He sees no problem with celebrating Ramadan?  Amazing.

http://www.brianmclaren.net/archives/blog/ramadan-2009-part-1-whats-going.html

Comments

[Bruce S.]

McLaren. Acc'd to his website "they fast from food, water, sex, etc., from dawn to dusk."

Personally, It's going to be too tough laying off the "etc" for me to participate.

[Chris]

Sounds like some contextualization crazed missionary

[Laurence K Wells]

Katherine Jefforts Schori, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church

[Todd Pruitt]

Gotta be President Obama.

[GrinningDwarf]

McLaren. It was on his blog.

[Timimator]

I can't believe a so called christian said this and for that matter who said this as I googeled it. Heretic is harsh maybe but I would have a difficult time calling this person my brother in "Jesus Christ" at least the one from the Word of God. Apparently there is more then one Jesus if you look at their teachings.

[alec]

I was about to guess George W. Bush too, but then I realized that the sentence is too grammatically fluent to be his.

[Zrim]

Alec,

That, plus there's no shock-and-awe-i-osity.

Besides, neo-cons think suspiciously of pious Muslims, paleo-cons think they make great neighbors. And paleo-cons who are also conservative Reformed know how to draw the line between false and true religion, passing on McLaren's entreat to idolatry.

[bill]

brian mcclaren or jim wallis or tony campolo or all three of them,but my gut tells me,brian mcclaren

[Lloyd Cadle]

alec:

Our current president is unable to speak without the aid of a teleprompter. This does not qualify Obama as a great speaker.

[dsanger]

Hey Brian McLaren let's see if your Muslim "neighbors" will extend to you the same goodwill this Easter by attending worship services that extol the risen Christ. Nevermind, they would consider that blasphemy.

[walt]

Wow. There are a lot of potential choices here with so many "Christians" falling all over themselves to appease the Muslims.

John Paul II

[walt]

"paleo-cons think they make great neighbors"

No, they don't.

[Michelle]

DEFINITELY Brian McLaren!

[Zrim]

"...paleo-cons think they [pious Muslims] make great neighbors."

“No, they don't.”

Yeah-huh. Traditionalists who retain the customs, ways, values and ancient rites of their forebears esteem other traditionalists who do the same. It means each other understands something the modernists don’t, which, amongst other things, includes peaceful living and tolerance for needful differences instead of hostile take-over. Sort of like how traditional Reformed and Lutheran can co-host a radio show.

[Jason]

A heretic.

[Lawrence Underwood]

McLaren.

[Todd]

Obviously Brian McLaren, who else.

[walt]

"Yeah-huh. Traditionalists who retain the customs, ways, values and ancient rites of their forebears esteem other traditionalists who do the same. "

By "customs, ways, values, and ancient rites" in the Muslim context you must mean "beheadings, honor killings, and extraction of jizyah from infidels," right? Those are the customs that were handed down from Mohammed. I haven't heard a single paleo-conservative saying we need more of those types of people as neighbors here in America. That must be a figment of your imagination.


"It means each other understands something the modernists don’t, which, amongst other things, includes peaceful living and tolerance for needful differences instead of hostile take-over. Sort of like how traditional Reformed and Lutheran can co-host a radio show."

Reformed/Lutheran cohosting is analogous to Muslims and non-Muslims living side-by-side in your universe, huh? Have you been reading all of the stories of Muslim persecution of Christians all over the world?

Sorry, this "Muslims make great neighbhors" meme might be something you don't want to repeat to a Pakistani Christian or a Copt.

[Zrim]

Walt,

My point isn’t to trivialize or even deny Christian persecution. But it seems to be your implication that observant Muslims don’t make good neighbors because they have their own version of theonomists (practicing, not merely theorizing like ours). I know, I know, to be a good Muslim means one has to jihad non-Muslims. But to be a good Mormon means one thinks he’s deity—does that mean Mitt Romney wouldn’t make a good President?

And yes, my universe does include Christians and Muslims living peacefully side-by-side even if someone else’s doesn’t. Are you saying that’s a figment of my imagination?