Wednesday October 18, 2006

I've Been Thinking:

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has just spoken to Allah.
And Allah has told Ahmadinejad that the Muslims will win out against the infidels.
Has the man gone totally mad? Not totally, just partially.
It is part of his messianic complex.

It is not unbelievable to think that Ahmadinejad communicates with Allah.
The unbelievable part is that Allah speaks back to Ahmadinejad.

Prayer is a form of conversation with God. And a basic religious concept, in all religions, is that God hears our prayers. But that's where it ends. Believers speak and God listens - but God does not answer back, at least not in words. God answers the prayers of believers through signs, through nature, through historical events. That is a cardinal point in monotheistic religious belief.

God only speaks directly to prophets and prophecy has ended.
That is what made the great Muslim prophet Mohamed so great.
That is what differentiates Jesus from all others in Christian history.

Sorry Ahmadinejad, communication with God is always one sided.