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A United Methodist renewal advocate, reacting to what he describes as [[[the warm reception that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad received from the religious left during his recent visit to New York, ]]]says [[[there's a "blossoming friendship" between theologians and Iran's controversial leader]]].Mark Tooley directs the United Methodist Committee at the Institute on Religion and Democracy (IRD) in Washington, DC. He recently wrote a column in the Weekly Standard about [[[a meeting between Ahmadinejad and 150 church officials at the United Methodist Women's Church Center for the United Nations.]]] That meeting, he says, was touted as a [[["time of dialogue and prayerful reflection among the children of Abraham."]]]"There is a blossoming friendship going on between American religious and church officials and Iran's apocalyptic radical president," he says. [[["The church officials say they want to avert any major conflict between Iran and the U.S., and they profess to be peacemakers. ]]]( SIGH.....)But in this process of ostensible peacemaking, they seem to want to minimize the Iranian president's very ugly threat against Israel and the U.S."In his column, Tooley writes that Ahmadinejad came away from the meeting knowing that he has[[[[ "reliable American friends who will oppose any strong policies aimed at his regime, while expressing limited concern about his intemperate plans" ]]]]toward the U.S. and Israel.{{{{{"It's very odd how the religious left in America often fawns towards or apologizes for the transgressions of radical Islam, given that radical Islam of course is very hostile to much of what the religious left stands for in terms of women's rights and gay rights,"}}}}} says the IRD spokesman. {{{{{"But the continuum seems to be that the religious left sympathizes with any movement or foreign governments that are hostile to the U.S."}}}}}He says the Mennonite Central Committee was one sponsor of this latest "bridge building" along with Jim Wallis' Sojourners, Pax Christi, the World Council of Churches, the Church of the Brethren, and the American Friends Service Committee (a Quakers organization).PS:I think it's the "religious"left...yes...I think it's proper....They are religious but NOT SAVED....If they were, their eyes would be opened to the TRUTH in all matters of life and they would have the common sense and the wisdom and the DISCERNMENT to know the difference between evil and good....
As in the days of Noah....
