{"id":3589,"date":"2007-06-18T14:04:42","date_gmt":"2007-06-18T19:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2007\/06\/18\/personal-schism\/"},"modified":"2007-06-18T14:04:42","modified_gmt":"2007-06-18T19:04:42","slug":"personal-schism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2007\/06\/personal-schism\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal schism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several readers sent me a link <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/localnews\/2003751274_redding17m.html\">to the following story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">Shortly after noon on Fridays, the Rev. Ann Holmes Redding ties on a black headscarf, preparing to pray with her Muslim group on First Hill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">On Sunday mornings, Redding puts on the white collar of an Episcopal priest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">She does both, she says, because she&#8217;s Christian and Muslim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">Redding, who until recently was director of faith formation at St. Mark&#8217;s Episcopal Cathedral, has been a priest for more than 20 years. Now she&#8217;s ready to tell people that, for the last 15 months, she&#8217;s also been a Muslim &#8212; drawn to the faith after an introduction to Islamic prayers left her profoundly moved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">Her announcement has provoked surprise and bewilderment in many, raising an obvious question: How can someone be both a Christian and a Muslim?<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">Well instead at looking a how ridiculous this is, let us look at the positive side of a Christian Muslim.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When you issue a fatwa on yourself it is hard for you to hide from yourself so you won&#8217;t have a Salman Rushdie problem.<\/li>\n<li>If your suicide belt goes off prematurely you at least killed one Christian.<\/li>\n<li>You can pretty much preach any thing you want and on a given point be pro one day and con the other.<\/li>\n<li>You can engage in interfaith dialogue when you are by yourself.<\/li>\n<li>You can send money to both Jay Sekulow and CAIR.<\/li>\n<li>Preach that you can eat pork and preach that you can&#8217;t.<\/li>\n<li>Preach hat God is both one God and a Trinity of three persons. and then that Allah is one God and only one person.<\/li>\n<li>Preach that Jesus died on the cross and was resurrected and then that &#8220;They did not kill him, nor did they crucify him, but they thought they did.&#8221; <\/li>\n<li>Preach that Jesus was the Son of God and that he wasn&#8217;t.<\/li>\n<li>Preach that Mohammed was a deluded man with a heretical mix of Christianity and that he was the last Prophet sent by God.<\/li>\n<li>Preach about the inspiration of the New Testament and that it is the word of God and that it isn&#8217;t and in fact the Qur&#8217;an is.<\/li>\n<li>Preach that the Holy Spirit is the &quot;other helper&quot; and the that Muhammad is.<\/li>\n<li>Cheer for both sides of the Crusades.<\/li>\n<li>Call yourself an infidel.<\/li>\n<li>You can be a dhimmi to yourself.<\/li>\n<li>Have really really mixed feelings about Israel.<\/li>\n<li>Dip your fingers in a Holy Water font to make the sign of the cross and then wash your feet and pray before Mecca.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several readers sent me a link to the following story. Shortly after noon on Fridays, the Rev. Ann Holmes Redding ties on a black headscarf, preparing to pray with her&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}