I am used to my real name (Jeremy) being taken whenever I sign up on any website and I didn't think ahead about how that's not an Egyptian name so no one here would have taken it. So I kept doing it when I signed up here, using a transliteration of …
I feel like I should clarify for the sake of Andrew or anyone else who may have read my post that I meant my sort of "prayer by osmosis" (which I have to believe is not limited to me) is what is lazy. If you're working 16 hours a day obviously it is…
Prayer and repentance, my friend. Please watch this sermon from HH Pope Shenouda on how to come back to God, and meditate on it. Take it and act on it and you will return to God. He has never left you, and does not run from you. Use your desire to g…
Hey, native Arabic speakers, 3andy suw'al: Is there a difference between "bekr" and "batool"? I have heard both with reference to Mary in hymns, so I'm not sure. There's the famous one sung by Fairuz and others "Ya Mariam el-Bekr", and also Wadih el…
Now, I'm no fancy big city lawyer, but it seems to me that there's a problem of mis-identification going on in some of the ideas put forth in this thread: I feel like this, or people feel like this, or whatever. You want to say that people are so bu…
Remnkemi,
Thank you for taking the time to answer me with so much information. Unfortunately, I do not have time to read the article you've linked in any proper depth, though I did scan it for main points. I don't have much to say about it (as the …
I know you are a man of few words, ILSM, but can you expand on that a bit, or link to an Orthodox source that expands on it? I have a feeling that the RC understanding of what that means is probably quite different than the Orthodox understanding, s…
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Hos Erof brought it to my attention that this fraction's text is actually Catholic.
There was an old and new version of this. For example, the old text (Catholic) meditates on …
Hi JG,
Thanks for the suggestion. I've read parts of "On The Incarnation", but was really just interested in the words above, since they seem odd to me. But thanks!
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Hi dzheremi…
How is that interesting, Unworthy1? I am insulted by what passes for analysis in the United States media. The only thing that article is good for is hopefully more insight from Copts in the comments section (hint, hint), because there certainly isn'…
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What do you mean you cant fit the ocean in a cup?
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It is a reference to the famous story of St. Augustine wherein the saint is walking along the beach and sees …
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Very well said dzheremi. By the way salafists, are not thugs... both are distinct groups puppeteered by the scaf, as many others are.[/quote]
Intersting. I once asked a Mu…
We are to be gentle as doves but also wise as serpents, as He has sent His disciples (and by extension, those who witness to Him today, us) into a world full of wolves. I don't think anyone would argue against self-defense. But it must be prudent, i…
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You can't fit the ocean in a cup ;)
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This is a good way to put it, but also for a deeper exploration of this question I found this podcast to be very illuminating. It …
They still refer to "sectarian clashes", though. Baloney. Unless the security forces were in this case to be taken as a sect of Islam (which might not be as much of a stretch as we'd all like it to be, but I don't know), I take any writings like tha…
I'm afraid that Geomike will be right. Not necessarily because all of those things will happen, but because I don't know what a shout box is, but it sounds scary and I fear change.
They also offer money to western people in KSA to convert to Islam. My Arabic instructor (a Westerner who worked there for a few years and lived in the gulf for about 13 years) told me about it. It's funny; isn't that usually an allegation against C…
I think it behooves us all, no matter how we feel about the revolution, to take a "wait and see" attitude. Call me cynical, but I do not trust politicians anywhere (though I echo Unworthy1's request for more information). I seem to remember the curr…
No, no, no. Please don't misunderstand me, my friend. I don't believe that the revolution was aimed at Muslims' rights with the express purpose of making things worse for Christians. I do believe, however, that this is in a sense the "natural" turn …
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First of all, I am not denying at all that their religions compels them to treat Christians as infidels, and second-ranked, and our possessions and women are their pillage.…
Alright, well...I'm a little confused by some of what you've written ("there is no political vacuum...the political vacuum has been forged..."), but I have to pray and sleep soon so I'll keep it short. I have been following the developments in Egypt…
I won't say that you're wrong, Unworthy1, but I will say that it is very interesting that this charge gets often repeated specifically against the USA with regard to Libya when it is mostly European nations that are primed to benefit from access to …
I didn't mean to say that you were suggesting that Muslims should be exonerated, or that the government does not manipulate people (I thought I wrote that they may do this). My point is only that Muslims, just like any people, are not robots. In fac…
Would it not be fair to say then, Ophadece, if not the revolution itself then these acts are least made somewhat more feasible by the security and political vacuum left in the wake of the revolution? After all, similar acts occurred after the breaku…
What do you mean, Unworthy1? I do not see how it could be otherwise. I do not treat Muslims like babies, who can only be manipulated by powers outside of themselves. That feeds into their arch-victimhood, which I think is stupid and insane and wrong…
Islam is to blame. How could it be otherwise? The thugs did not shout "Islamiya! Islamiya!" for no reason. I am sick of this idea that this is somehow not sectarian, or if it is, it is two sides fighting for sectarian reasons. The Copts want their c…
They didn't come with the Arab invaders, but were indigenous Egyptians who converted over time to Islam.
George Mina Awad: Can you summarize what the woman in the video is saying, please? My Arabic is nowhere near as good as it would need to be to…