Word: sermonizers
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Brown's editorial is also similar to the Peninsula issue in that he asserts things that are simply wrong. According to Brown, Gomes says we have "no way of drawing any legitimate precept from the Bible of the Fathers." I don't know whose sermons Brown has been listening to. Certainly not Gomes's. I've heard every sermon preached in Memorial Church this year and I remember quite clearly hearing Gomes say not once but many times that the Bible is the source of moral precepts. The writers of Peninsula cannot both champion the cause of open debate...
Gomes has been named one of America's seven greatest preachers by Time magazine. He spoke at the inaugurations of former President Ronald W. Reagan and President Bush. Describing the feeling he had before his sermon at the Bush inauguration, he says, "The work of this republic was happening peacefully, and I was a part of it for just a brief moment...
...central market in Port-au-Prince, Aristide was there to excoriate the perpetrators and to raise money to rebuild the place. When one military dictator after another came to power promising democracy down the road, Aristide dismissed them, one after another, with an ironic Creole proverb and a blistering sermon. He never gave the least philosophical quarter to those he perceived as "roadblocks to the liberation of the Haitian people...
...sermon fit in perfectly with the new brand of politically correct Islam, the tenets of which include: 1. Islam is the means to all ends. 2. Anything not Islamic is"Kafir" (infidel) 3. Anyone not Muslim is"Kafir." 4. Americans are especially"Kafir." 5. President Bush is the most"Kafir" of all, an anti-Muslims, Zionist Jew. 6. The sheiks in Gulf nations like Kuwait and Saudi Arabia and their followers are "munafiqueen" (hypocritical Muslims, infinitely more detestable than kafirs 7. For the sake of Islam, Iraq needs a nuclear bomb. 8. So does Pakistan. 9. And Yassir Arafat...
...began the discussion with a speech emphasizing the need for Muslims to be considerate of one another, especially during the sermons. In my opinion, the best course to follow was that of the prophet, who simply read a passage from the Koran and offered an interpretation. Even when speaking of politics, one ought to deliver the sermon tactfully, in such a way as not to alienate of offend anyone...