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2007-08-14 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Today's Idiot, Dutch Catholic Bishop: Christians Should Pray to Allah

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Posted by Icerigger 2007-08-14 13:40|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 How about the Dutch Muslims use the Dutch word for God instead?

Since they're "Dutch" and all...

Posted by john frum 2007-08-14 14:51|| 2007-08-14 14:51|| Front Page Top

#2 The Bishop of Breda, Tiny Muskens

Is that his body? Or his mind?

Posted by tu3031 2007-08-14 14:55|| 2007-08-14 14:55|| Front Page Top

#3 John Frum nails it, but it's common sense and even basic decency, and it goes against multiculturalism.

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-08-14 14:57|| 2007-08-14 14:57|| Front Page Top

#4 There's an active movement among a handful of bishops in several churches to do away with the scandal of the cross and resurrection. This is just one more instance of the rot within.

Posted by lotp 2007-08-14 15:06|| 2007-08-14 15:06|| Front Page Top

#5 Muskens is retiring in a month. This might be his flame out before he goes. The Pope should fire his ass before then.

Aparently he forgot about a book called the Bible.

And God said to Moses, I AM WHO I AM and WHAT I AM, and I WILL BE WHAT I WILL BE; and He said, You shall say this to the Israelites: I AM has sent me to you!

God said also to Moses, This shall you say to the Israelites: The Lord, the God of your fathers, of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has sent me to you! This is My name forever, and by this name I am to be remembered to all generations.

Posted by Icerigger 2007-08-14 15:29|| 2007-08-14 15:29|| Front Page Top

#6 The actual pronunciation of the two Hebrew letter combinations in the Torah (the five books of Moses) has been lost, but in English Y-y is generally transliterated as "Yahweh" and Y-h-o[v]-h as Yehovah or Jehovah. In Hebrew we say Adonai (our Lord) and Elohenu (our God) as substitute for the unknown names. Perhaps Bishop Muskens might like to try that? It's what his Saviour used when He prayed, after all.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-08-14 16:02|| 2007-08-14 16:02|| Front Page Top

#7 This story has actually been posted here before Icerigger; however, I personally see no reason why we shouldn't hang him up here again and beat him like a pinata.

Posted by Free Radical">Free Radical 2007-08-14 16:23|| 2007-08-14 16:23|| Front Page Top

#8 Funny, he has lived a while in Indonesia (ex-Dutch colony) which when I lived there in the early 80's was pretty secular and not a rabid Islamic jihadi state like it is today. When I went to our "formalities and credentials" interview with the Indonesian version of Immigration (actually the secret police), the first question on the form was: "Where were you on June 19th (?) 1949". That was when the Indonesian insurgents rebelled against the Dutch master and there was blood.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2007-08-14 16:23|| 2007-08-14 16:23|| Front Page Top

#9 Just call all God, divine deity, or intelligent designer (computer programmer of massive simulation?) THE ONE.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-08-14 16:26|| 2007-08-14 16:26|| Front Page Top

#10 Oh for Christ's sake!!

Posted by GORT 2007-08-14 16:36|| 2007-08-14 16:36|| Front Page Top

#11 Umm, you are fired, dude.

Posted by newc">newc 2007-08-14 18:16|| 2007-08-14 18:16|| Front Page Top

#12 I'll get on that one right away there bish'....

(BTW - he prefers the name "Big Guy in the Sky" -- he told me so & that's a no shitter)

Posted by Broadhead6 2007-08-14 20:17|| 2007-08-14 20:17|| Front Page Top

#13 I think God prefers to deal with the "Fruit of the Spirit" and not the "Religious Nuts".

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2007-08-14 21:07|| 2007-08-14 21:07|| Front Page Top

#14 Trailing wife: I really enjoyed Martin Buber's "I and Thou", a simple, easy to read book of amazing complexity and insight about the personal pronoun as applies to God-human and human-human relationships.

Ironically, throughout human history, what Buber wrote applies, except that were he still alive, he might need to add a revision specifically for Abigail and Brittany Hensel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abigail_and_Brittany_Hensel

On the surface it doesn't seem to be a problem, but for them, and they as individuals, the personal pronoun becomes very taxed, very quickly.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-08-14 22:27|| 2007-08-14 22:27|| Front Page Top

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