Let’s keep in mind that this is the action of one person and not the action by numerous people. I think we can all admit that we will find intolerance by people of all faiths, and while its a very disrespectful thing to do, in my opinion I think that type of behavior exhibited by the Israeli lawmaker is not a common problem nor is it condoned by his government.
Goes to show that it isn’t just American politicians and preachers who grandstand. I suppose the deepest offense I could do against this one would be to NOT tear up the Old Testament.
True, though his actions are rather silly. I wonder if the missionary group actually sent him an entire Bible, and he either accidentally ripped up the OT or carefully removed it, set it reverently to the side, and then ripped up only the NT.
The intolerance of this religious Israeli lawmaker does not come from the Jewish religion, contrary to what you state. It does come from the individual’s distortion of the teaching of the religion, just as Catholics and other Christians who have acted in a similar manner have distorted the teaching of their religion. The behavior of this man should be, and has been, condemned by the Israeli government as well as all of us. But we shouldn’t use this or similar incidents as a rationale to condemn Judaism as a religion.
But in most Muslim majority countries, there is also a similar cultural current. Some non-Muslim Arabic cultural norms, not even mentioned in the Quran are held in non-Arab, Muslim majority nations.
Most Muslims don’t even live in Iraq and Jordan. And the middle east only has a small percentage of Muslims in the world. Only 1.9% of Muslims live in Iraq, and .4% live in Jordan. Only 20% of Muslims live in Arab nations.
And even of the ones who do live in Iraq and Jordan only a small percentage are violent extremists. The rest are victims of those extremists.
So while you say that you’ve “seen how most Muslims are” the numbers show quite the opposite. You’ve seen a very small percentage of a huge, worldwide population.
True that.
why don’t you pray for him. If someone is that angry that they are going to destroy the religious book of someone else, they aren’t worth the time or day. Considering the HSS mandate and that Catholics and Christians are mocked in our culture at every turn we have bigger battles on our hand. We had in the Detroit area that lone pastor from Florida coming in to Dearborn to burn Korans. It went no where. Jews are our elder brothers in the faith. Because one behaves badly is minor here.
Stop being rude.
You know, I’ve been on these boards for awhile now and I’ve never seen anyone describe the catechism as a long, eloquent, politically correct document meant to please others. In fact, I own a catechism, and I could point to several politically incorrect passages. So please, show some respect to it on a Catholic website.
Do you know what the Church Fathers write about it? And I didn’t talk about the *whole *catechism.
Stop being a drama queen, it’s one small issue. If I don’t agree with the church on Islam it doesn’t make me a bad Catholic. I will always respect the churches opinion and value it.
Maybe it was the New World Translation? I’m going to have a pork chop tonight and pray for him, One person, I wouldn’t start throwing stones.
So just part of the catechism is a politically correct document to make others feel good?
We absolutely can. If it doesn’t say what people misinterpret it to say.