In 396 Ambrose of Milan attacked enjoyment of life, saying that the serpent of Adam and Eve fame was itself “pleasure, slippery and infected with the poisons of corruptions.” Adam succumbed and fell away from the enjoyment of grace. How can pleasure recall us to paradise, seeing that it alone deprived us of it?” The …
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British review of a hard right-wing "Christian" book "Become a Better You" by Joel Osteen, televangelist Cheesy smiles: one on the front cover; two on the back. Cheesy stories: every couple of pages. Self-fulfilment advice for complacent and inexplicably sad rich people. Veneer level: Christian truisms follow each other like rides at Disneyland. Spiritual nutrition? …
"To be happy, to cease striving and admit you are powerless . Islam, the religion of surrender….No man’s life is worth anything. It’s like the wind. We’re in the world for only one reason, and that’s to act out what was written for us . The man whose destiny is bad, he’s lucky, because all …
If you think Islamic thought is alien, then try this! Islam and women Conversation between Stenham and the Arab boy, Amar: "Words are for people, not for women." "Aren’t women people?" People are people. Women are women." "If women aren’t people, how does it happen that they go to Paradise?" "They have their own place …
The Moslem religion….."demands a humility and submission that he could not conceive himself as feeling………Discipline for the sake of discipline, mindless and joyous obedience to arbitrary laws, that was an element of their religion which, praiseworthy though it might be, he knew was not for him…..They embody the mystery of man at peace with himself, …
