PREPARING TO TAKE ON HIS CHURCH
Daniel J. Wakin, New York Times, 7/10/02
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/10/nyregion/10LUTH.html
His church has judged that the Rev. David H. Benke offended God, the Bible
and all Christians. It says he "dragged" his faith, a conservative form of
Lutheranism, to the level of Islam, committed heresy and violated two of
the Ten Commandments.
His crime was taking part in an interfaith prayer service at Yankee Stadium
12 days after the destruction of the World Trade Center. His punishment is
suspension as president of the Atlantic District of the Lutheran
Church-Missouri Synod, a position equivalent to bishop for the New York
metropolitan area. But Pastor Benke refuses to apologize, as demanded in
exchange for lifting the suspension, and has appealed the ruling. He has
retained a Long Island law firm to represent his interests in what could
become a long, difficult battle within his church, which is based in St.
Louis. If he loses his appeal, he could be dismissed from the ministry....
Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations,
an Islamic advocacy group in Washington, called Pastor Baseley's comment
part of a growing "demonization of Islam and Muslims" that plays into the
hands of those who would pit the West against Islam...
SEE ALSO:
INCITEMENT WATCH: PARTICIPATING WITH PAGANS
Hal Lindsey, WorldNetDaily.com, 7/10/02
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=28223
I harbor no ill will for Rev. Benke. But guess what? Christianity, of which
the Lutheran Church is a part, says there is only one God. And if there is
only one God, He can't be Allah, Buddha and a whole bunch of different
Indian gods all at once. The God of the Bible cannot be the god of Islam.
NOW ONLINE: THE STEALTH CRUSADE
Barry Yeoman, Mother Jones, May/June 2002
http://www.motherjones.com/magazine/MJ02/stealth.html
Inside one Southern university, Christian missionaries are being trained to
go undercover in the Muslim world and win converts for Jesus. Their stated
goal: to wipe out Islam...
Outside, CIU's piney campus is quiet. Most of the student body has not yet
returned from Christmas break. But these students, all evangelical
Christians, have arrived two weeks early for an intensive course on how to
win converts in Islamic countries. They're learning from the master: Love
is the international director of Frontiers, the largest Christian group in
the world that focuses exclusively on proselytizing to Muslims. With 800
missionaries in 50 countries, Frontiers' reach extends from the South
Pacific to North Africa, with every major Islamic region in between...
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