{"id":549,"date":"2010-02-06T16:12:54","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T23:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=549"},"modified":"2010-02-07T15:25:44","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T22:25:44","slug":"blatantly-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=549","title":{"rendered":"PLU: &#8220;Blatantly Stupid&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-561\" title=\"redding2\" src=\"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/redding2.jpg\" alt=\"redding2\" width=\"120\" height=\"159\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As David Virtue <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virtueonline.org\/portal\/modules\/news\/article.php?storyid=12004\" target=\"_blank\">reports:<\/a> &#8220;Ann Holmes Redding, the deposed\u00a0former Episcopal priest turned Muslim  convert, has landed a teaching job at Pacific Lutheran University in Seattle,  which goes to show that\u00a0anything is possible in this world including the  blatantly stupid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Redding\u00a0reports: \u201cI am both Muslim and  Christian, just like I\u2019m both an American of African descent and a woman. I\u2019m  100% both\u2026. At the most basic level, I understand the two religions to be  compatible. That\u2019s all I need.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Islam and Christianity compatible? Christians confess:  \u201cWe believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God \u2026 of one  Being with the Father.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Muslims\u00a0deny<\/strong> that Jesus is  \u201cthe only Son of God \u2026. of one Being with the Father.\u201d Islam and Christianity  are <strong>not<\/strong> <strong>compatible<\/strong> \u201cat the most basic level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Redding\u2019s blend of Islam and Christianity is a  kind of New-Ageism which\u00a0distorts both religions.<\/p>\n<p>How are PLU students supposed to learn about the  basic\u00a0differences between Christianity and Islam as well as\u00a0figure out  the\u00a0limitations of professors like Redding?<\/p>\n<p>Besides  being &#8220;blatantly stupid,&#8221; PLU\u2019s hiring of Redding is a new low in the standards of ELCA  colleges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As David Virtue reports: &#8220;Ann Holmes Redding, the deposed\u00a0former Episcopal priest turned Muslim convert, has landed a teaching job at Pacific Lutheran University in Seattle, which goes to show that\u00a0anything is possible in this world including the blatantly stupid.&#8221; Redding\u00a0reports: \u201cI am both Muslim and Christian, just like I\u2019m both an American of African descent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":562,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions\/562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}