{"id":3702,"date":"2002-10-03T16:10:44","date_gmt":"2002-10-03T21:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=3702"},"modified":"2002-10-03T16:10:44","modified_gmt":"2002-10-03T21:10:44","slug":"the_religious_w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/10\/03\/the_religious_w.html","title":{"rendered":"The Religious Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of America’s funniest goofballs, Jerry Falwell, is at it again. Hopping on the Conservative Christian bashing of Islam, he’s told Sixty Minutes <\/i>in an interview<\/a> to be broadcast Sunday), that Muhammad was “a terrorist … a violent man, a man of war.”<\/p>\n

Jesus set the example for love, as did Moses,” Falwell adds. “I think Muhammad set an opposite example.” <\/p>\n

As Eugene Volokh delightfully puts it<\/a>, the case for Moses, at least, is a bit dubious. <\/p>\n

Hey, I’m no Biblical scholar, but wasn’t Moses involved with that whole smiting of the first-born thing, plus of course a wide variety of biological warfare? And weren’t there lots of other figures in the Old Testament — figures who are generally viewed quite positively — who were also “violent [men], . . . [men] of war”?<\/p>\n

Indeed, including most of the successors of Moses, starting with Joshua and running down to and through Saul and David.<\/p>\n

Falwell — who made headlines in September 2001 by blaming liberals, gays, pro-choice folks and the like for 9-11 attack, then more or less backpedalled — was quick to note in a followup AP interview that “he would never state his opinion in a sermon or book.”<\/p>\n

How nice of him. He’ll limit his preaching on the subject to just Sixty Minutes<\/i>.<\/p>\n

What a maroon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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