An American evangelist has jumped into the fray over the fate of a British teacher facing calls for death over a teddy bear named “Muhammad.” Bill Keller, host of LivePrayer, has posted a video on YouTube featuring a pink, toy pig named Muhammad after the Muslim prophet.
 Bill Keller of LivePrayer has named this toy pig after the Muslim prophet |
“Indeed Muhammad was a man of murder,” the pig, voiced by Keller himself, states in the video. “He was a pedophile, having a wife at the age of six. And I came to find out that the Quran really is nothing more than a book of fairy tales.”
Keller, a vocal critic of Islam, made the video in response to the case of Gillian Gibbons, who was sentenced to 15 days in a Sudan jail after being convicted of insulting Islam for allowing her student to call a teddy bear “Muhammad.”
Gibbons was moved to a secure location in Khartoum last week after street demonstrators called for her death.
Read about it here.
[From me]
I think the whole Gibbons case is sad. But do two wrongs make a right? How can we reach out to Muslims if Christians are purposely attempting to offend?
What do you think?
I went to the Youtube page, and there were 478 comments as I looked. Most were vengeful, spiteful, arrogant on all sides back and forth.
What fruit has this video born? Revenge and arrogant counter attacks are not the “fruit from above” St. Paul instructs us of in Galatians 5. In fact you can see what comes from the flesh in his description here:
19 Now the works of the flesh are obvious: fornication, impurity, licentiousness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, anger, quarrels, dissensions, factions, 21 envy, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these.
However, Christ has shown us the way of short circuiting the cycle of revenge, and attack by being humble, offering love for hate, turning the other cheek.
St. Paul also has a list of Spiritual fruit in Galatians 5; 22 By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control.
What do u see in the video and the comments it engendered? Personally I see the first list, not much of the second.
Lord have mercy.
With all due respect, this video is the dumbest thing I’ve seen in quite a while. Mind-boggling. What good has it done? None, that I can see.
Sometimes I wonder what some Christians are thinking. MIT is dead-on.
This kind of behavior is exactly why non-Christians have the negative attitudes toward Christians outlined in Kevin’s review in the post below this one. I don’t agree with the Islamic faith just like they don’t agree with mine but I would never denigrate their religious views in such a manner. I won’t go to YouTube and watch it just because I don’t want to give his video another “hit.”
Kevin,
I can’t see how that does anything that is in any way good. Why do we (Christians) insist on doing stuff like that?
Always puzzled…
G
It is a severe lack of faith that prompts statements of anger and hatred. We see something that is frustrating and we don’t believe deep down that anything can be done so we resort to anger and attack. If we really believed that love would change the world then we would love much more.