"That the Christian tradition seems ambivalent about law, governance, and power is no accident. Islam and Christianity are, after all, meant to do different things. Law, at least in part, is about exposing and punishing sin. Yet, when Jesus died on the cross, he in effect released man from the burdens of sin, and therefore from the burdens of the law."
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Mr. Hamid is American. Christianity in America "seems [I don't like weasel words like "seems"] ambivalent about law, governmance, and power"? "One nation under God"? Anglo-American law is founded upon biblical principals of right and wrong, crime and punishment (founded upon, Pilgrim, not modeled after, don't spazz out on me).
"When Jesus died...released man from the burdens of sin, and...from the burdens of the law."
Usually when a brilliant thinker makes a macro-level statement like that we normal people catch a glimpse of the micros floating around down there inside the macro. I can't here. To my knowledge and experience that's a macro without micros.
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Mr. Hamid is American. Christianity in America "seems [I don't like weasel words like "seems"] ambivalent about law, governmance, and power"? "One nation under God"? Anglo-American law is founded upon biblical principals of right and wrong, crime and punishment (founded upon, Pilgrim, not modeled after, don't spazz out on me).
"When Jesus died...released man from the burdens of sin, and...from the burdens of the law."
Usually when a brilliant thinker makes a macro-level statement like that we normal people catch a glimpse of the micros floating around down there inside the macro. I can't here. To my knowledge and experience that's a macro without micros.
