Islam and Christianity can't both be right

A Sydney church leader has used a Good Friday address to tell his congregation that Christianity and Islam cannot both lead to God.

Anglican Dean of Sydney Phillip Jensen told a service at St Andrew's Cathedral that Islam denies some of the Christian beliefs about Jesus.

Islam views Jesus as a prophet but does not believe he was the son of God who died on Good Friday to save humanity from its sins and was resurrected on Easter Sunday.

"Now that Islam has become more common in our society, you need to know the difference between Christianity and Islam," he said.

"For the Koran, and therefore Islam, denies that Christ dies."

But Dean Jensen said that the two religions cannot both be right.

"Either both are wrong or one is right and the other is wrong," hw said.

"But both of them cannot be right."

Bishop of South Sydney Robert Forsyth said the comments were in no way inflammatory towards Muslims, but instead were an attack on the naive who believed all religion was the same.

"What he was attacking was not Muslims," Archbishop Forsyth told AAP.

"The thing he was attacking was the unwise who people think that all religions are part of the same thing - so he was attacking the seculars."

AAP

Steyn on Anglicanism

Mark Steyn, Canadian and columnist extraordinaire, had this to say about his Anglican heritage in an interview with Jana Wendt recently published in The Bulletin:

“It’s a small matter of regret to me that I can hardly bear to sit in an Anglican church these days, when an Anglican minister speaks. I think there’s very little demand for a faith that has no faith in itself … It’s basically defeatism. They say, there’s no prospect in the modern secular world of us converting people to Jesus Christ, so all we can do instead, is convert them to the mushiest of tired, left-wing politics.”

Sports bar owner rejects Christian group's protest

...apparently gay bars are OK for the local Anglicans, but table top-dancers aren't. No wonder the community thinks christians are inconsistent.

Sports bar owner rejects Christian group's protest
The part-owner of a Hobart sports bar has responded to criticism from a Christian group protesting against the use of erotic dancers in a building owned by the Anglican Church.
The sports bar is next to St David's Cathedral and the Anglican Church is trying to terminate its lease, on the grounds of immorality.

The Christian Democratic Party handed out leaflets to patrons at the weekend, saying strip shows violate and dehumanise young women and should not be staged on church property.
But the club's leasee, Colin Latham, says the Christian lobby did not protest when the venue operated as a gay bar.

"I have a copy, just happen to have a copy of the lease between Graham Holdings and the church at that time," he said.

"There is no mention of moral covenance, all it says, well, they can do whatever they like, in short, as long as it doesn't upset people on the outside."

Ken Higgs of the Christian Democratic Party says his members will continue to lobby against activity it regards as offensive and degrading, but will not confront patrons.
Mr Latham says the club is run responsibly.

"Ken's entitled to his opinion but we don't openly promote pictures of table-top dancing or any sort of activity, we warn people at the front door, there's a sign that says 'full frontal nudity'," he said.

An application to transfer the club's interim liquor licence is being considered by the Licensing Commissioner.