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Is this what passes for cultural diplomacy in Iran?
Film director Nader Talebzadeh said he wanted to make a movie that shows the "common ground" shared by Christianity and Islam.
So in late 2007 he released Jesus, the Spirit of God, a film Talebzadeh says stays faithful to the New Testament account of Jesus -- except that, in his film, Jesus isn't crucified and, oh, by the way, isn't the son of God, either.
There it is again -- another example of how Christianity basically is forced to sit there and take every knock against its beliefs at the risk of offending radicals. Imagine the howls of outrage if a Western filmmaker chose to portray the life of Muhammad by implying that Muhammad was not, as Muslims believe, the final prophet of Allah. It would set off a cultural firestorm.
This whole production of Jesus, the Spirit of God never was meant to serve as a bridge between two religions, as the director asserts. If anything, sadly, it helps sever the ties of whatever tattered bridge there is left. It's no more than a jab in Christianity's eye from a director who embraces the same anti-Western ideology as Iran's leaders.
Genuine dialogue and understanding among faiths will have to come from the mouths of moderates, not from celluloid, Islamist bomb-throwers aiming at a religion whose beliefs no one seems to mind wiping their feet on.
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It seems like a moment of gas after a bowl of bean soup sets off a cultural firestorm in the Muslim world. So what? They trash Jesus, so what? It's what they do. This is kind of a "dog bites man" story isn't it?
This is how muslims are. Their Islam beliefs can't hold up under scrutiny, while our Bible says, "test the scriptures." Their faith has no Savior for everlasting life or repentence. If your belief can't withstand challenges to its doctrines, (as the Bible & Christianity have for centuries), maybe it is a false religion, like Islam. The Mullahs, Imam, and Ayatollahs would lose poltical/religious control if their "sheep" knew the truth. Therefore the idea of presenting any negativity toward Islam is a no-no. What they hold-up as truth, won't hold-up under intellectually honest scrutiny.
Alot of Americans (there are Jewish Americans, not everyone is Christian remember) believe that Jesus was not the son of God.
Despite attempts, you simply cannot homogenize Christianity with Islam. The serious differences will never be harmonized into a single common ground. The Koran (written hundreds of years after Christ) denies the crucifixion of Jesus, despite the fact that Roman and Jewish historical writings from the same time period state that event as historical fact. Even if Muslims deny biblical truth, they have a very difficult time explaining away the fact that their "holy book" contradicts secular history as well. It's sad. Don't confuse them with the facts.
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