Christian Heresy

A Christian Testimony Against Islamophobia

Edit Huffington Post 05 Mar 2016

They build on a foundation that has been laid, in large degree, by a consistent stream of Islamophobic rhetoric from the Christian Right ... When Hitler came to power in Germany, a vocal minority of Christian leaders--the Confessing Church movement--opposed Nazism ... John of Damascus' Against Heresies (8th century CE), Muhammad is presented as a heretic inspired by the devil; Islam itself is categorized as a Christian heresy....

A Response to Chris Hedges

Edit Alternet 13 Feb 2016

Hedges offers an instructive example of an all-too-common genre ... We agree that liberal churches include people who sell out overtly to neoliberal imperialism—Hedges calls this “Christian heresy”—or sell out covertly with rhetoric of tolerance and “tepid church piety.” Both of us would like to see more good guys; both are exasperated when existing institutions do not provide room for them to maneuver ... There is nothing new about this....

Why Many of America's Liberal Churches Are Committing Ethical Suicide

Edit Alternet 25 Jan 2016

This is another example of mainline Christianity casting their lot with capitalism instead of community ... The doctrine these sects preach is Christian heresy. The Christian faith—as in the 1930s under Germany’s pro-Nazi Christian church—is being distorted to sanctify nationalism, unregulated capitalism and militarism ... This Christian heresy is currently on public display at Donald Trump and Ted Cruz political rallies....

By Chris Hedges

Edit Information Clearing House 25 Jan 2016

This is another example of mainline Christianity casting their lot with capitalism instead of community ... The doctrine these sects preach is Christian heresy. The Christian faith—as in the 1930s under Germany’s pro-Nazi Christian church—is being distorted to sanctify nationalism, unregulated capitalism and militarism ... This Christian heresy is currently on public display at Donald Trump and Ted Cruz political rallies....

Do Jews, Christians, and Muslims Worship the Same God? Do Any of Us?

Edit Huffington Post 11 Jan 2016

The "Harvard of Christian schools" has begun proceedings to fire Larycia Hawkins, so they claim, not because of a headscarf she wore in solidarity with Muslims, but because she had the audacity to repeat the words of the pope, that Jews, Christians, and Muslims all worship the same God ... But the real question is not whether Jews, Christians, and Muslims worship the same God ... They thought of Islam as a kind of Christian heresy....

Ben Carson's Church Believes the U.S. Government Will Team Up With the Antichrist

Edit The Daily Beast 31 Oct 2015

“I’m a Christian,” he said ... To most Christians, all this is heresy, and Adventists have been persecuted for a century and a half ... While Seventh-Day Adventists may, today, seem like just another Christian denomination, in fact they have long seen themselves as a group apart from the rest of the world ... Mormonism, Christian Science, Adventism, and Jehovah’s Witness....

Pope’s visit sends message about past, present and future to US, China: Sisci

Edit Asia Times 28 Sep 2015

His appeal went beyond the 1.2 billion Catholics; it reached all Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, and even Muslims, many of whom were touched by his prayer after the death of the hundreds killed in the Hajj stampede in Mecca ... This rupture first occurred in the seventh century, when the Arab Saint John of Damascus singled out Islam as a new “Christian heresy.”....

Francesco Sisci replies to David Goldman

Edit Asia Times 09 Jun 2015

Yet he did so in a list of about 100 Christian heresies of the time. That is, Saint John, later considered the father of Scholasticism and with intimate firsthand knowledge of the Arab Empire and its new religion, saw Islam still as a Christian faith, although unorthodox, like the many heresies that had been spawned from the Christian trunk over centuries....

Can Muslims work with Christians against pseudo-Muslims?

Edit Asia Times 09 Jun 2015

Yet he did so in a list of about 100 Christian heresies of the time. That is, Saint John, later considered the father of Scholasticism and with intimate firsthand knowledge of the Arab Empire and its new religion, saw Islam still as a Christian faith, although unorthodox, like the many heresies that had been spawned from the Christian trunk over centuries....

Evidence for biblical Christ put under microscope

Edit WorldNetDaily 21 Dec 2014

Almost from the birth of the Christian church, however, heresies plagued it. Paul wrote about these heresies when he wrote to the Galatians ... Peter addressed the issue when he wrote a letter to an unnamed Christian church ... Adoptionism, for example, was an early Christian heresy that taught Jesus was born as a non-divine man, was supremely virtuous and was adopted later as “Son of God” by the descent of the Spirit on him....

'The birthplace of Islam in Britain': Toxteth's Victorian mosque reopens

Edit BBC News 27 Jun 2014

But how did it come to be there in the first place? ... Source ... "A Muslim colleague explained that Islam was simply a continuation of previous faiths, Judaism and Christianity ... "Islam in the 19th Century was seen as a Christian heresy and there were these ideas about Islam being a violent faith ... "Because he was successful and Christians were converting to Islam, that produced a lot of hostility ... Building in disrepair ... ....

Muslims conduct 'human sacrifice' on video

Edit WorldNetDaily 13 Mar 2014

“Christians are being killed in these very rituals every day, and the bloodshed will not stop ... He has been working with a Syrian Orthodox nun, Sister Hatune Dogan, to assist persecuted Christians in Syria, Iraq, Jordan and Turkey ... “Though Islam is a Christian heresy, its pagan roots and elements cannot be ignored, which is why I prefer to call Muslims pagan heretics, or heretical pagans.” ... Pay gold or die, Christians!....

Is the philosophy of evolution a heresy according to the Bible

Edit The Examiner 04 Jan 2014

To actually believe in evolution as a Christian is a heresy. Heresy in the Bible refers to schism and false teaching. The term "heretic" and "heresy" refer to a willful choosing of false doctrine, a willful alignment with error. The word "heretic" is used one time in the Bible in Titus 3.9-11, but the term "heresy" is used four times in the Scriptures (Acts 24.14; I Corinthians 11.19; Galatians 5.20; 2 Peter 2.1)....

Christian Apologists and Early Heresies

Truth vs. Heresy (Christianity vs. Calvinism)

Jesus Culture: The Next Generation of Heretics

Islam: A Christian Heresy Posing as a Post Christian Religion