Between trips to the Middle East and Africa to across the United States, John Bryson Chane, Episcopal bishop of Washington, D.C., and former dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral in San Diego, has been busy.
His most recent venture: Iran, where he met with religious officials to discuss similarities between Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
“We’re all monotheists, and that means we share a tremendous amount theologically in common, which I find fascinating,” Chane said. “The Virgin Mary is venerated more times in Iran than in the gospels, and they celebrate Jesus Christ’s birthday.”
Wrong, Bishop. Muslims don’t celebrate Jesus Christ’s birthday. They celebrate for a Jesus who was a prophet of Islam and who wasn’t crucified, much less resurrected. Entirely different view of who he is and what he means.
I wonder if they showed the Bishop film of how they hang homosexuals in Iran?
But, is Chane preaching that Salvation is received through accepting Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and changing one’s behavior in accordance with Jesus’ teaching the Word of God given through the prophets in order to achieve Salvation?
Never heard him preach, but I bet not.
Anyone who has read Tom Wolfe’s essay, “Radical Chic,” will immediately recognize what is going on here.
It seems that it is more important to preach “peace” abroad, since there is none in TEC, and it seems no one knows how to fix it.
I thought a bishop should have order in his own household, hmmmmmmmm.
Gloria
Chane’s admiration for Islam should enable him to move to an Islamic country, O, let’s say Iran, and enter dhimmitude in reality. He certainly has intellectually and spiritually. Wonder what it would cost him annually to be a Christian there? Reckon he could get a church for services cheap? What would it cost not to have the services invaded? or grenaded? or disrupted by Islamic “extremists”, neighbors?
Would he run the risk of his life or his head for his beliefs? How about whips?
See the Barnabus Fund November Prayer Focus Update for his opportunities to dodge grenades in church and have 6 children killed, have the building burned, being knife or shot to martyrdom, being imprisoned, being kidnapped, being married and thus converted to Islam and subject to home invasion and beating for apostasy from Islam when Christian for years or from birth with prescribed “counseling” leading to sexual abuse. Chane would have a choice of countries to practice his dhimmitude in, if he wished.
See THE BARNABAS FUND http://www.righttojustice.org/ The November Prayer Focus is particularly enlightening about dhimmis.
“Dhimmitude is the status that Islamic law, the Sharia, mandates for non-Muslims, primarily Jews and Christians. Dhimmis, “protected people,” are free to practice their religion in a Sharia regime, but are made subject to a number of humiliating regulations designed to enforce the Qur’an’s command that they “feel themselves subdued” (Sura 9:29). This denial of equality of rights and dignity remains part of the Sharia, and, as such, is part of the law that global jihadists are laboring to impose everywhere, ultimately on the entire human race.
“The dhimmi attitude of chastened subservience has entered into Western academic study of Islam, and from there into journalism, textbooks, and the popular discourse. One must not point out the depredations of jihad and dhimmitude; to do so would offend the multiculturalist ethos that prevails everywhere today.
“But in this era of global terrorism this silence and distortion has become deadly. Therefore Dhimmi Watch seeks to bring public attention to the plight of the dhimmis, and by doing so, to bring them justice. ” http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/
May the Lord open Chane’s eyes to reality.
# 3: you can read Chane’s Christmas sermon here:
http://www.cathedral.org/cathedral/worship/jbc031225.html
‘What was God thinking when the angel Gabriel was sent by God to reveral the sacred Quran to the prophet Muhammad?’