Thursday, August 29, 2013
Another plea
Another counterproductive conflict, though not nearly as violent, is the theological conflict between serious Christians and serious Muslims.
This goes both ways:
(1) A clandestine 'house church' movement is spreading Baptist-style Christianity in Bangladesh. The local Muslims are making trouble for the newly converted Baptists.
(2) Several majority-Baptist states in the US have passed anti-sharia laws, pointlessly guaranteeing that the state's legal system won't adopt any principles of sharia. Pointlessly because the Federal black-robed Satans slap down these laws as soon as they're passed.
Both sides are focusing on theology and forgetting about basic culture. Baptists and Muslims agree on most things in the area of culture. Both adhere to the long-lasting principles of public health and sanity established by the Old Testament. Men should be responsible and sober, women should be modest and domestic, money and property should be used frugally and carefully, crime should be punished harshly. These principles were developed through many millenia of experimentation, and they work.
So here's another plea. It doesn't matter whose prophet is bigger. Skip the theological nonsense and cooperate on the culture. You're both right and the rest of the world is wrong. If you work together, you can pull the rest of the world back toward Old Testament rules.
¶ 3:50 AM 
