[lit-ideas] FW: Re: Ask the Ayatollah
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2006 15:59:12 -0400
Let's try this again. I see there's even a space where the word should have
gone. Okay, here goes:
That was more a mini hunger strike than a religious fast.
> That more a mini hunger strike than a religious fast.
>
>
>
> > [Original Message]
> > From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
> > To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: 10/7/2006 1:55:32 PM
> > Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Ask the Ayatollah
> >
> > > But in Christianity fasting is a personal thing for special occasions
> and it
> > > is not made public -- one does not let anyone know that they are
> fasting.
> > > It is a very private way of submitting one's whole being to God.
> >
> > How private is it? I posted this link lst night.
> >
> > http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0305-09.htm
> >
> > Here's an excerpt from it.
> >
> > Pope Steps Up Anti-War Crusade with Call for Christians to Fast
> >
> > Pope John Paul II stepped up his crusade against a looming war in Iraq,
> urging
> > the world's Christians to stage a fast for peace on the same day as his
> envoy
> > is to meet US President George W. Bush.
> >
> > The pope said the day of fasting on Wednesday would remind people of the
> long
> > years of suffering endured by Iraqi citizens as a result of the
> international
> > embargo against the country.
> >
> > The fast will coincide with a meeting Wednesday between Bush and the
> pope's
> > special envoy, Cardinal Pio Laghi, who the pope has entrusted with a
> special
> > plea to restrain the US leader from waging war against Iraq.
> >
> > The fast is the latest in a series of efforts to avert a war by the
pope,
> who
> > has emerged as one of the most prominent opponents against a US-led
> conflict
> > with Iraq.
> >
> > In recent weeks, he has received leaders ranging from Iraq Deputy Prime
> Minister
> > Tareq Aziz to British Prime Minister Tony Blair, the US' key ally on
> Iraq, and
> > Tuesday held talks with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
> >
> > The pontiff said the day of fasting Wednesday should "provide greater
> > understanding of the difficulties and sufferings or our brothers
> confronted by
> > hunger, misery and war."
> >
> > The appeal has also been passed on by World Council of Churches in
Geneva
> and
> > the Synod of the Church of England.
> >
> > An informal opinion poll carried out on a private Italian television
> channel
> > also found that 55.7 percent of viewers said they were willing to follow
> the
> > appeal to fast.
> > --------------
> > I have a number of (Protestant) friends right here in Portland, who let
> it be
> > known openly and beforehand that they are going to fast (usually for a
> day) as
> > part of some anti-war protest. The extent to which people on lit-phil
> have been
> > willing lately to generalize about 'Christians,' 'Catholics,'
> 'Protestants,'
> > 'religion,' 'Muslims,' 'philosophers,' and the like is really quite
> > extraordinary.
> >
> > Robert Paul
> > Reed College
> >
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