From here (page 4):
Many readers of this paper are familiar with the core values of Judaism and Christianity. It is important to know that Islam shares many of those core values as well.
Let’s see, the “core values” of Christianity would include the divinity of Jesus, his resurrection, his virgin birth, his atoning for man’s sin though dying on a cross, his being the only way to God Father, his coming again; not to mention the Trinity, the Eucharist and the Church as the Bride of Christ. How many of these core values does Islam share? None.
A core value that provoked Bishop Peter Fenty into making the above silly statement was:
Adherents to Judaism, Christianity and Islam believe in the sacredness of life.
Regrettably, not even that is a core value for North American Anglicanism: neither the ACoC nor TEC will unequivocally condemn abortion so, clearly, life is not sacred to them at all.
To explain ISIS and what is happening in Iraq, the bishop goes on to quote Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the fellow who, to promote harmony, wanted to build a mosque in the ashes of the World Trade Centre:
We may be decades away from achieving a true Islamic state in Iraq and Syria. The region must heal from more than a century of colonial domination, Cold War conflict, despotic regimes, and economic stagnation that has left so much of the population grasping for anything to assert their power and address political grievances.
As you can see, the problem lies anywhere but with Islam.
Well, Muslims have the virgin birth and his messiahship, so there are definite differences, but by any honest reckoning they do a _little_ better than “none”!
Anyone want to contribute to an airline ticket for the bishop to go to Iraq and explain to ISIS all about core values? Never mind. Waste of money.
Oh no. Not an airline ticket! That would cause us to burn even more fossil fuels, and that would be the greatest evil of our time. Let’s send him across the Atlantic in a sail boat.
As a Bishop he has the responsibility to be a spiritual leader for old and young alike. Such false teaching will cause many to stumble in their walk with Christ. Our Lord suggested that such false leaders would be better off placing a millstone around their neck and throwing themselves into the sea. They would sink almost as fast as the ACoC and TEC.
What a relief that is:hope then for Islamic clemency for Christians of conscience such as Pakistani prisoner (2009…), Mrs.Asia Bibi, wife and mother of two daughters, all of whose family have had to flee for their own lives, while she just has been sentenced by a sharia court to hang for blaspheming the Prophet. What “core value” would that be?
‘The Peoples Church”s (Toronto) The Reverend Charles Price, Sunday,October 19, 2014, ‘For The Kingdom of GOD in The Middle East’, offers THE ‘core value’:
The Gospel of Jesus Christ.
The Gospel is The Source of miraculous transformations in the face of severe persecution and martyrdom.