"THIS IS FOR ALLAH" - GOD IS GRIEVING NOT CELEBRATING
The London Bridge terrorists cried out "This is for Allah".
Jomana Abedi, sister of Salman Abedi, the Manchester bomber, said her brother was "loving and Kind" and that he wanted revenge for the U.S. strikes on Syria. She remarked, "Whether he got revenge is between him and God."
Throughout history, those using violence, have sought to justify their actions as being God inspired, God directed or God forgiven.
To make sure we keep God out of the frame of violence, can we start to develop, what I suggested decades ago, when a member of the international executive of the World Conference on Religion and Peace? That is, an internationally agreed and legally enforceable charter of religious rights, responsibilities and conduct.
An agreement that sets out what religious communities can expect, what standards they must observe, what practices are permitted and what beliefs are socially acceptable.
I would suggest that such a charter would prohibit God being associated with any acts of violence and would prohibit any religious community proselytising.
I suspect that such a charter will remain as illusive as ever, however, in its absence, can I, at least, as a religious leader, make it clear, that God can never be associated with violence.
That is not to say that human beings, muddling through the moral and circumstantial confusions around us, may not resort to violence, such as the police stopping a terrorist attack, however, when doing so, let's keep God out of the picture.
If God is to represent anything that will assist humanity, it must be of that which expresses the finest and the best, that is the exemplar of integration and unity, that imagines the whole, in a just and peaceful equilibrium.
As we trudge upon the mucky, murky, mad path towards realising our paradisical hope, we must never contaminate 'God' with our equivocations.
"This is for Allah" is a lie, is dishonest, is delusional and is a blasphemy.
God grieves for what took place and wishes it hadn't.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4569638/Car-ploughs-20-people-London-Bridge.html
Jomana Abedi, sister of Salman Abedi, the Manchester bomber, said her brother was "loving and Kind" and that he wanted revenge for the U.S. strikes on Syria. She remarked, "Whether he got revenge is between him and God."
Throughout history, those using violence, have sought to justify their actions as being God inspired, God directed or God forgiven.
To make sure we keep God out of the frame of violence, can we start to develop, what I suggested decades ago, when a member of the international executive of the World Conference on Religion and Peace? That is, an internationally agreed and legally enforceable charter of religious rights, responsibilities and conduct.
An agreement that sets out what religious communities can expect, what standards they must observe, what practices are permitted and what beliefs are socially acceptable.
I would suggest that such a charter would prohibit God being associated with any acts of violence and would prohibit any religious community proselytising.
I suspect that such a charter will remain as illusive as ever, however, in its absence, can I, at least, as a religious leader, make it clear, that God can never be associated with violence.
That is not to say that human beings, muddling through the moral and circumstantial confusions around us, may not resort to violence, such as the police stopping a terrorist attack, however, when doing so, let's keep God out of the picture.
If God is to represent anything that will assist humanity, it must be of that which expresses the finest and the best, that is the exemplar of integration and unity, that imagines the whole, in a just and peaceful equilibrium.
As we trudge upon the mucky, murky, mad path towards realising our paradisical hope, we must never contaminate 'God' with our equivocations.
"This is for Allah" is a lie, is dishonest, is delusional and is a blasphemy.
God grieves for what took place and wishes it hadn't.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4569638/Car-ploughs-20-people-London-Bridge.html
ARCHBISHOP JONATHAN BLAKE IS INNOCENT-HE HELPED STOP A PAEDOPHILE
http://bishopjonathanblake.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/press-release-concerning-met-police.html
"You brave, courageous and wonderful man.
To stand up for the truth in the face of suppression and oppression
is truly an act of a pure heart."
posted by Bishop Jonathan Blake | 10:57 AM
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