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    Coexist: Interfaith Myths and Misinformation
    Coexist: Interfaith Myths and Misinformation
    Coexist: Interfaith Myths and Misinformation
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    Coexist: Interfaith Myths and Misinformation

    By Dan Wolf

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    Our country has changed. Our founding principles are being over-written with a post-modern perspective. A world view where truth is no longer objective, but subjective. Man defining his own truth. This view is taught to our children. We hear it from our politicians in both parties. It is espoused and supported by our media and academics.

    The attempts to erase history by removing statues, culminating with the recent violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, are a result of that shift. Today’s interfaith movement and events grow out of this new world order, but its source is far from new. Its root lies with the same pagan views as the Greek philosophers.

    We all share the same nature, and so are called to love and care for each other. Can we do this today without compromising our principles? Several interfaith events were held in Richmond. While their purpose was developing an understanding of Islam, in some respects the topic is irrelavent. How should Christians respond to this change? How do we remain in society whithout losing our faith?

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    PublisherDan Wolf
    Release dateOct 22, 2017
    ISBN9781370175567
    Coexist: Interfaith Myths and Misinformation
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    Dan Wolf

    Dan Wolf’s life can be divided into his career and vocation. By way of career, he is a successful professional with over twenty years’ experience helping organizations solve problems. He possesses a rich mix of research experience, analytical abilities, and the capability of turning complex abstract ideas into something tangible. These same skills of research, analysis, and communication carry over to his writing. He deeply believes that things do not happen in isolation; that understanding different facets leads to a better understanding of issues.He is a CPA with a Master’s degree in Finance and two years of doctoral coursework in human judgment and decision-making. He taught himself programming, and has extensive experience in utilizing technology to design and develop business processes that support cost modeling, performance metric development, financial and operational analysis, and the distribution of information from those processes. He has used analytical methodologies to identify cost improvement, cycle time reduction, data quality improvement, and human performance management opportunities.His vocation began at a young age with a penchant for history, but started in earnest with the events of 9/11. In trying to understand those events he has been led on a journey which has included learning the tenets of Islam, the contents and history of the Bible, and exploring Christian philosophical/theological thought related to our purpose. This purpose directly translates into how we should govern ourselves and is born out in the history of freedom’s development. Future works will focus on these and related topics.More articles by Dan Wolf can be found at the Virginia Christian Alliance website where he contributes on contemporary issues. http://www.vachristian.org/

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      Coexist - Dan Wolf

      Coexist

      Interfaith Myths and Misinformation

      Dan Wolf

      Coexist

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      There is a phrase of facile liberality uttered again and again at ethical societies and parliaments of religion: the religions of the earth differ in rites and forms, but they are the same in what they teach. It is false; it is the opposite of the fact. The religions of the earth do not greatly differ in rites and forms; they do greatly differ in what they teach.

      —C.K. Chesterton

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Chapter 1: Interfaith Myths and Islam

      Chapter 2: Perpetuating Myths—A Christian Perspective

      Chapter 3: Islamic Propaganda

      Chapter 4: The Problem of Religious Sources

      Chapter 5: Islam is All

      Chapter 6: Islam’s Jesus

      Chapter 7: Why the Differences in God’s Nature Matter

      Chapter 8: Jihad’s Nature

      Chapter 9: How Should Christian’s Respond

      Chapter 10: What Christians Should Not Do

      Chapter 11: A Word to the Left

      Appendix A: The Muslim Brotherhood in America

      Notes

      About the Author

      Discover Other Writings

      Connect with the Author

      Introduction

      Today’s world increasingly embraces post-modernism. A world-view where truth is no longer objective, but subjective. A view that looks to our shared common nature, but ignores differences in ideas—as long as those ideas do not threaten holding to post-modernism. Christianity relies on objective truth, coming from God, and therefore poses a threat to post-modernism.

      But the post-modern view is nothing new. In reality it is no different from the ‘enlightened’ pagan views espoused during the Roman Empire. It is a return to the idea that man defines his own truth. Man does not necessarily deny objective truth, as long as objective truth can be made to fit within his own view of it.

      This post-modern view is creeping into all aspects of our society, including our government and church. This matters because the Church and State were authorities established by God, and accountable to Him. When the people in charge of them turn away from Him society suffers. It no longer grows but decays. Progress does not occur because its motivation cannot exist. The motivation for true progress is love, the love that comes from our Creator for His creation. The same love we are commanded to show to both Him and our fellow man. God also gave man stewardship of His creation, and stewardship cannot happen without caring—without love.

      Instead of making true progress, we simply change objectives to fit current circumstances and declare we’ve made progress. Whether it is redefining unemployment to artificially make an economy appear better, declaring marriage to lie within the realm of civil society and not religion, or declaring each person defines their own gender, it doesn’t matter. It is all one and the same. Man turning to himself thinking to satisfy himself. It is a false hope; a shirking of purpose. Putting self-interest above self-sacrifice.

      Christians attempting to reconcile the post-modern view with their faith lose themselves. They fall prey to the lies of ‘discovering oneself’ and to ‘looking within for the answers’ instead of looking to God’s word. There faith is no longer properly grounded and they are open to be deceived.

      Into this breach steps Islam. It subverts a corrupted interfaith vehicle for its own purposes. But Islam is only behaving according to its own professed view, expanding Islam’s reach at any and all cost. It is we who have lost our way. We’ve become more interested in being entertained, having bread and circuses, instead of pursuing our purpose as individuals and a people.

      But the answer to all this is simple. It only requires truth, but one must look for it at its source—our Creator. It cannot be found anywhere else. The essays within this booklet were written in response to the half-truths and misinformation presented about Islam at several Richmond interfaith events. Their purpose is simply to hold up the information presented at these events to the light of truth. Nothing else is needed. During this process some false foundations of the interfaith effort and post-modernism itself are exposed.

      The essays are organized as follows. The first two examine some interfaith principles and the information presented at two interfaith events, one at a junior college and the second at a church. The next six review some claims presented about Islam at these events. Information from both Islamic and Christian original source materials is used to objectively examine these claims. The final three essays wrap up the series by looking at how Christians should respond to the information presented in the previous essays. These responses hold true for how Christian’s should respond to any threat, they are not limited to the present topic. That topic is only the most recent manifestation of a much larger and enduring problem—man’s rebellion.

      It is my hope, as one of the essays states, that you will read them, watch the interfaith event recordings, read some of the cited source materials for yourself, and then make up your own mind. In short, that you will search for the truth—God’s truth. May you find Peace and be Blessed on your journey.

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      Chapter 1: Interfaith Myths and Islam

      This first essay examines a serious faith problem that is rapidly growing in Richmond, VA and across our nation, the ‘interfaith’ movement. The movement’s stated purpose is promoting dialogue across different religions; particularly Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. Jews and Christians share the Torah, or Bible Old Testament, a common bond that’s existed for almost 2,000 years. Neither of these religions share a similar bond with Islam.

      However, the dialogue within these events is not open. It rests instead on a mutual trust based only on what a party (such as Islam) chooses to disclose about its religion—truth regarding religion is not defined by facts or understanding, but only by what one chooses to reveal about their religion. Others (such as non-Muslims) are to accept those disclosures as ‘truth.’ Truth becomes subjective instead of objective. It creates a type of impenetrable ignorance, shifting religion’s focus away from God and onto man’s stated beliefs regarding a religion, an understanding based solely on what another person chooses to reveal about their own religion.

      One can only reflect upon their own religion according to ‘interfaith’ principles. This insulates Islam from critical analysis while at the same time providing it the opportunity to dislocate others from their faith. These conditions serve the Muslim Brotherhood’s planned civilization jihad described in their documents collected during the Holy Land Foundation trial.[1] Islam’s principle of sanctioned deceit and at times lies to further Islam’s advance allow it to manipulate ‘interfaith’ discussions in accordance with its goals. Individual Islamic groups have been created to dialogue with students, Catholics, Protestants, and Jews.

      The Richmond area interfaith group recently held

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