Playing pretend with Glenn Beck :: Jihad Watch

Glenn Beck does some good reporting about the Islamic jihad threat, but he doggedly plays pretend, assuming repeatedly that Islam is a religion of peace, the Qur'an is a book of peace, etc.

What he doesn't realize is that this doesn't empower Muslim moderates, as he clearly wants to do -- rather, it cuts the ground out from under them, for you can't reform what you won't admit needs reforming. Rightly or wrongly, the Protestant Reformers didn't indignantly deny that the Catholic Church taught Transubstantiation -- rather, they argued against this and other doctrines with which they disagreed. How far do you think they would have gotten if they had simply charged with "bigotry" anyone who pointed out that the Church taught the Real Presence or the papal primacy?

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