Doesn't our newspaper want to appear inclusive? As if it respects everybody in Berks County? As if it doesn't think heathens in other countries need to be "saved"?
The Reading Eagle, the media monolith in Berks County, published this "daily thought" in its Daily Docket on Sunday.
A Bible verse from an Old Testament prophet:
"Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other." Isaiah 45:22
And the interpretation, by a local preacher:
"From New York to Timbuktu, from Kabul to Santiago people just like you and me can come to Jesus and be saved! So won't you come?" - Rev. Jonathan Peters, Covenant Presbyterian Church, Sinking Spring.
Doesn't Peters know that Timbuktu and Kabul are in Muslim nations? Why would he think anybody there needs to be saved by his religion? Saved from what?
Would the Reading Eagle publish this verse from the Quran?
"When the victory of Allah has come and the conquest, And you see the people entering into the religion of Allah in multitudes, Then exalt [Him] with praise of your Lord and ask forgiveness of Him. Indeed, He is ever Accepting of repentance." Quran 110
It's hard to prove negatives, but I looked through Reading Eagle archives for the past six months and could find no "daily thoughts" from the Quran or from a rabbi.
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