{"id":974,"date":"2010-09-10T13:32:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-10T13:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/09\/tennessee-church-welcomes-muslim-neighbors\/"},"modified":"2010-09-10T13:32:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-10T13:32:00","slug":"tennessee-church-welcomes-muslim-neighbors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/09\/tennessee-church-welcomes-muslim-neighbors.html","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Church Welcomes Muslim Neighbors"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/religion.blogs.cnn.com\/2010\/09\/10\/tennessee-church-welcomes-muslim-neighbors\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">video from CNN<\/a> is worth watching:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/i.cdn.turner.com\/cnn\/.element\/apps\/cvp\/3.0\/swf\/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&amp;videoId=us\/2010\/09\/09\/dnt.muslim.christian.welcome.wmc<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/religion.blogs.cnn.com\/2010\/09\/10\/would-muslim-burn-the-bible\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Also on CNN is a piece about Qur\u2019an-burning<\/a> which explains to non-Muslims that for Muslims, the Qur\u2019an is the pre-existent Word of God, as Jesus is for Christians, and so the equivalent for Christians would be if someone burned not a Bible, but Jesus. The article also explains that the Jewish and Christian Scriptures are also sacred for Muslims.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-5303202316206058552?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video from CNN is worth watching: http:\/\/i.cdn.turner.com\/cnn\/.element\/apps\/cvp\/3.0\/swf\/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&amp;videoId=us\/2010\/09\/09\/dnt.muslim.christian.welcome.wmc Also on CNN is a piece about Qur\u2019an-burning which explains to non-Muslims that for Muslims, the Qur\u2019an is the pre-existent Word of God, as Jesus is for Christians, and so the equivalent for Christians would be if someone burned not a Bible, but Jesus. 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