tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708139263643046536.post9092427816183478564..comments2024-03-29T05:31:25.038-04:00Comments on Kresta In The Afternoon: Today on "Kresta in the Afternoon" - September 13, 2012Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708139263643046536.post-82174057719210827732012-09-15T04:03:20.913-04:002012-09-15T04:03:20.913-04:00Loved listening yesterday. On the comparison btw ...Loved listening yesterday. On the comparison btw the Islam and the west, among the big issues are the notion of our relationship to God, and the nature of sacred texts. Scott Hahn has distinguished that for traditional Catholics, Protestants and Jews, we understand that God is our loving Father, but for Moslems, God is sovereign, irrational, and not loving...Gid is Master, and people are his slaves. Also, the Bible is written by inspired prophets and evangelists, and is subject to interpretation. THE Koran, quite differently is seen as the direct writing of God. So in the west, a fundamentalist interpretation of the Bible is an extremist error. But for Islam, the sacred text is not subject to interpretation, fundamentalism is the default assumption. Pope B16, in his Regensburg lecture, spoke lucidly about how for Catholics, because God is loving, he is rational. But Protestant theology subordinated the God of Reason to the God of Sovereignty. So the use of reason was increasingly abandoned in the west. So reasoning, which is the basis for discourse, has been abandoned in both Islam, a theocracy, and in the west, a secular state. Ironically, the only thing that theocratic Islam and western secular democracies have in common is a high reverence for the state, one under an irrational God, and the other simply irrationl. Chris in Marylandnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708139263643046536.post-60068700171595229252012-09-14T07:09:33.315-04:002012-09-14T07:09:33.315-04:00Very thoughtful and well thought-out program. Tha...Very thoughtful and well thought-out program. Thank youAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708139263643046536.post-20839202894202857392012-09-14T02:12:54.848-04:002012-09-14T02:12:54.848-04:00Thoroughly enjoyed your talk today. Very informati...Thoroughly enjoyed your talk today. Very informative and excellently presented!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708139263643046536.post-3858129345862325232012-09-13T18:53:39.677-04:002012-09-13T18:53:39.677-04:00Excellent program!Excellent program!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com