Re: It's a step (#55961)
by Max Swing on March 10, 2005 at 11:07 AM

Well, it is the same with Christianity. If you look at the march of NeoCon religious hardliners, you will see the same problem: Faith or Individual Liberty. I don't think we really got this question right anyway. So, why should the Muslims be any better or different?

I think it is arrogance to say that we have beaten all contra-liberty issues out of Christian theology...

Re: It's a step (#56033)
by Chris Matthew Sciabarra on March 11, 2005 at 6:25 AM

Jason, I honestly don't have enough information about Aslan to know if he's actually lying about this. Certainly you are right: There is a vastly different view of both Islam and Mohammad among the fundamentalists of various stripes (as Aslan seems to admit), and I too wonder if/how Aslan's alternative will gain currency with those particular groups---who are also among those groups constituting terrorist cells.

The encouraging sign is that these kinds of discussions are moving forward.