Iâve read that before, and it rather disturbs me.
âJihadâ can mean âinward struggle,â but in English it almost always means âholy war.â
By the tone of the article, I canât really bring myself to find mocking war funny. War is the most serious thing in the world. I donât understand how any war can be holy.
Grenades, flaming swords, and guns cannot be instruments of peace (or humor), in my view.
I donât think war is funny. I think warmongers are ridiculous which isnât the same as finding them funny. The best way of attacking things that are nasty, serious and ridiculous I know of is satire. This is very effective satire.
Jehovahâs Witnesses may not accept the doctrine of the trinity, so in that sense I suppose they are unitarian.
However, they have nothing --at all-- to do with the Unitarian / Universalist Church.
By the way, the idea of anybody making jihad â âholy wayâ â isnât funny. Whatâs funny is the idea of a bunch of U/U members trying to even get aggressive with anybody.
Historically, though, they did do a good job of smuggling people out of Nazi Germany: they got a lot of folks out to safety, and risked their own lives doing it. So there ya go.
In regards to Jehovahâs witnesses, the ones I know usually use the word ânontrinitarianâ instead of âunitarian,â for what itâs worth. I think it is because âunitarianâ is usually associated with the Unitarian Universalists, but the two words historically mean the same thing (the rejection of the Trinity).
There are lots of faiths that are unitarian without being universalist, of course.
Each seems to be themed on a different group.
Church_of_the_SubGenius has the X-day instead of the rapture, Discordianism has been compaired to many eastern religions, etc.
It seems strange that they are combining two different philosophyâs U/U and Islam. I guess I do not understand the connection. Although I doubt that Jon Carroll had any intention of this being anything but a side note. It seem that other people are finding something in it.
Indeed. Unitarian Universalism supposedly encompasses Islam, but the same can hardly be said the other way aroundâIslam is probably the most un-universalist (I canât think of another word?) religion in all of history.
You know, I understand and really appreciate that sentiment, but I donât think itâs always a good thing. I guessâŚI donât think (wo)man is good enough on his own, the way he is. Humanity is in a pretty wretched state and has been forever.
We need salvation and non-leather shoes, as Bloomfield has said.
Yes. Many of them are my family members, classmates, and neighbours, in fact. Fundamentalist Islam is much more un-universalist (I am positive that there is a better word here but I cannot think of it) than fundamentalist Christianity.
Compare the two and youâll see the difference in severity immediately.