[Arthur Gordon Pym]

Originally Posted by wilpuri

But surely, if this is the Islamic interpretation of Jesus, then they have a right to make movies about it, without Christians taking offense?
I mean, from what I gather, most Christians are ok with Muslims having their own faith. They have a different faith and also therefore a different interpretation of Jesus, what's wrong with that?
Well does not every religionist believe their own faith to be the right one, I mean that is sort of the point, right? Jews don't accept Jesus as the messiah either. Does Jeffrey Fleishman think they're negating the core Western philosophy?
Or perhaps Christendom should join in on a crusade against Iran...? Some sure wouldn't mind...
I'm just thinking that this article is perhaps aimed at awakening 'the wrath of God' against stubborn Iran.

Yes, some might interpret this article in that manner. I just say: God save us from neoconnish Christianity (or "Judaeo-Christianity", or "Judaeo-Christian values", or what other rhetorical monstrosities they devise to describe their misuse of religious identity of the so-called "West", as they perceive it). The author of this article is probably no Christian at all, just someone who takes into account the so-called "Christian roots" of what he calls West, with some clearly political implications. In this way he is Islamic of the kind because in Islam religion is tightly connected with politics.

And what is even more disturbing is that nowadays you find many self-professed Catholic traditionalists whose writings reek of the stench of neoconnism. It is the phenomenon of the so-called theoconism. for the matter of fact, it became quite wide-spread in many Traditionalist circles (though not in all).