{"id":100322,"date":"2017-06-01T00:07:04","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T07:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=100322"},"modified":"2017-05-30T13:18:09","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T20:18:09","slug":"hopeful-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2017\/06\/hopeful-signs.html","title":{"rendered":"Hopeful Signs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

A video protesting Radical Islamic nutjobs has gone viral in the Middle East.<\/a><\/p>\n

30,000 Muslims in the UK marched against ISIS<\/a>. \u00a0Why didn\u2019t we hear about it?<\/p>\n

Also, the Muslim community tried to warn the cops about the bomber<\/a>. \u00a0They didn\u2019t listen. \u00a0The failure of the cops should not blind us to the fact that the Muslim community is trying to be vigilant about the nuts.<\/p>\n

Moreover, 70,000 Indian Muslim clerics issued a fatwa against terrorism.<\/a><\/p>\n

So did a Pakistani shiekh, condemning them to hell in that not-mincing-words way of Muslims.<\/a><\/p>\n

Christian Church destroyed by ISIS rebuilt by Muslims.<\/a><\/p>\n

Here are a whole bunch of other fatwas on terrorism from various sources.<\/a><\/p>\n

Catholics easily forget that we are the weirdos on the global religious scene in that we have a Magisterium that formally teaches and defines what Catholics do and do not believe. \u00a0Most religious traditions (including Islam) do not have that and so the fatwas and ruling of various clerics are, in the end, just the opinions of that Muslim or group of Muslims and have not binding force except insofar as that particular Muslim or group of Muslims happen to be respected.<\/p>\n

But respect is nothing to sneeze at either. \u00a0Much of what troubles the US Church is precisely that lay Catholics form their thinking, not on the Church\u2019s teaching, but on what some folk hero or culture war figure tells them. \u00a0That can be good or bad depending on whether the Revered Figure is an influence for good or evil. \u00a0Muslims operate on much the same basis, so the more Revered Figures there are saying \u201cTerrorism is bad\u201d the better.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile the stupidest thing bloodthirsty right wing culture warriors can do is look at condemnations of terrorism from Muslims, call them liars, and accuse these people fighting the good fight of somehow being in league with terrorists. \u00a0It is wicked because such lack of charity both drives away people who are on the side of the angels and because it poisons our own souls. \u00a0As C.S. Lewis said:<\/p>\n

Suppose one reads a story of filthy atrocities in the paper. Then suppose that something turns up suggesting that the story might not be quite true, or not quite so bad as it was made out. Is one\u2019s first feeling, \u2018Thank God, even they aren\u2019t quite so bad as that,\u2019 or is it a feeling of disappointment, and even a determination to cling to the first story for the sheer pleasure of thinking your enemies are as bad as possible? If it is the second then it is, I am afraid, the first step in a process which, if followed to the end, will make us into devils. You see, one is beginning to wish that black was a little blacker. If we give that wish its head, later on we shall wish to see grey as black, and then to see white itself as black. Finally we shall insist on seeing everything \u2014 God and our friends and ourselves included \u2014 as bad, and not be able to stop doing it: we shall be fixed for ever in a universe of pure hatred.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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