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goatoverlord42

An Message of Peace from the Muslim World

Nov 02, 2007 01:07

x-posted to the Christianity communityFollowing up on recent discussions of Islam, I wanted to post this very encouraging development- 138 scholars and influential leaders from every major sect/across the Muslim world have extended a formal affirmation of peace and the foundation of Jesus' two greatest commandments, Love of God and Neighbor as ( Read more... )

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squeektoy42 November 2 2007, 17:21:43 UTC

Hmmm...in theory it sounds like a really good thing to be happening.

But I am cautious to jump on the happy bandwagon...a leader can say just about anything he/she/they want. The next step is getting those they lead to agree to it.

But as I have always admitted...I don't trust religion, or rather religious leaders. Will be very curious to see what happens.

musicwmnvla November 2 2007, 20:34:40 UTC

Thank you very much for sharing this. It is a promising development and I really hope both sides will be able to live up to their words of peace. I especially enjoyed reading the Muslim statement because it gave me a better understanding of the religion, particularly their beliefs about jihad.

spyro_prime November 2 2007, 21:12:46 UTC

thank you for sharing; i did quote you by the way:)
thanks
spyro

spyro_prime November 3 2007, 04:26:47 UTC

Oh, thank you... I'll go take a look!

musicwmnvla November 3 2007, 03:53:21 UTC

By the way, I really love your LJ theme. Which one is it?

goatoverlord42 November 3 2007, 04:24:32 UTC

Hey, thanks... I just upgraded to one of those slightly improved ad versions, its one of the ones listed on the site under nature, "hills evening" I think. Figured it worked for my journal's theme.