{"id":192,"date":"2011-03-14T07:31:58","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T07:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/religionandpubliclife\/2011\/03\/criticizing-anothers-doctrine.html"},"modified":"2011-03-14T07:31:58","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T07:31:58","slug":"criticizing-anothers-doctrine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/religionandpubliclife\/2011\/03\/criticizing-anothers-doctrine.html","title":{"rendered":"Criticizing another’s doctrine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some of you may recall that a week ago, the Catholic League’s Bill Donohue took umbrage<\/a> at my daring to suggest <\/a>that
\nthe canon law doctrine of Scandal be jettisoned. It wasn’t that he
\ndisagreed with what I had to say about the doctrine but that it was the
\nlikes of me who said it. <\/p>\n

Silk is not a Catholic–he is a Jew. Imagine a Catholic professor telling
\nobservant Jews that they need to change one or more of their doctrines.
\nIf such a character could be found, I would be the first to tell him to
\nmind his own business.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I take it that his point was
\nthat no one should presume to tell those of other faiths what their
\ndoctrines should be. Imagine my surprise, then, when I discovered
\nProfessor Donohue delivering himself<\/a> of the following just three days later:<\/p>\n

Not until Muslims renounce the sharia–the totalitarian legal system
\nthat justifies oppression–will Christians be safe in Muslim-run nations.
\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That kind of sounds like the good doctor is not
\nminding his own business. But of course, he regards it as very much his
\nbusiness that sharia, as he understands it, has harmful societal
\neffects. And I agree. If you judge someone else’s religious doctrine to
\naffect society adversely, you are entitled to argue for its, ah,
\nrenunciation.<\/p>\n

There, I’m glad we’ve got that settled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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