File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_2000/anarchy-list.0006, message 334


Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 01:27:08 +0100
Subject: Re: Lamby the NZ sheep captured by fundies?


At 10:43 +0100 28-06-2000, Andy wrote:
>...
>Through work, I know a fair few Imams and some very devout Moslems - they
>tend to see Xtianity as "wrong" but in the sense of inaccurate rather than
>evil. They take God as being the same one - they see Xtians as being OK -
>much better than the usual run of agnostics and atheists. When my wife was
>struck with arthritis, several fairly fundamental Moslems prayed for her;
>similarly when a Moslem friend was very sick, she said "Pray for me" to me
>and Jill. It's hardly being in communion with them, but it's a fair
>indication of tolerance, and these are people who've been in wars with
>alleged religious undertones. At my last school, the local CofE vicar,
>Catholic priest and Imam all blessed a room for prayer for the students.
>
>There was a move by some over-enthusiastic members of the London diocese to
>start evangelising at the Moslem community. According to a source, it was
>slapped down by the bishop with the words "No, we won't do that; this is
>London not Lebanon".
>
>Andy

Just been listening to this song (great):
  south park - mr. garrison : merry fucking xmas

I heard it last year on the belgian radio and now thanks to napster i 
could find it.

Erik

   

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