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How Not to Kill a Muslim: A Manifesto of Hope for Christianity and Islam in North America Paperback – April 13, 2015
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- Print length148 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateApril 13, 2015
- Dimensions6 x 0.37 x 9 inches
- ISBN-101625648588
- ISBN-13978-1625648587
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- Publisher : Cascade Books (April 13, 2015)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 148 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1625648588
- ISBN-13 : 978-1625648587
- Item Weight : 8.1 ounces
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.37 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #4,065,793 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #965 in Christian Ecumenism
- #4,835 in Ethics in Christian Theology
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I write about the intersection of faith and culture. I believe faith, spirituality, and religion are meant for the flourishing of all people in all places. I live with my family in Nashville. Kara and I have three sons: Lucas, Finn, and Oliver. You can follow me on twitter @joshgraves.
I love and devour stories. I believe we are the stories we tell ourselves. And I'm trying to tell better stories so I can live a better story. I have three books: The Feast (2009), Heaven on Earth (2012 with Chris Seidman), and How Not to Kill a Muslim (2015). My next book, The Simple Secret, comes out in 2023 (Cascade Wipf and Stock). I hold a doctorate degree from Columbia Theological Seminary.
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I find this book to be simply pious nonsense, completely useless in practical fact.
As an exercise in expanding our understanding of the “Good Samaritan” (or “Merciful Samaritan”) I suppose it has some value to some people. Would you help someone in a crisis when you knew for certain it was a real crisis? Probably. Would ethnicity matter? For most today the answer would be no, although if the victim was of an obviously different group or appeared to be a gang member or something like that you might be more cautious. In the parable, the victim was nearly dead and was clearly not a threat. A modern version would probably involve someone late to work having to choose to help, with ethnicity being a lesser issue, but that digression isn't relevant to this book.
In fact, the only way that has been found to work to let people live together is to have a totally secular government which enforces the rule that no one can use force on another – especially for religious reasons.
The commands to kill those who worship differently (or who stop worshiping), whether in Deuteronomy or the Koran, MUST NOT BE ALLOWED. Religion will unavoidably color what people think is right, but they will simply have to live with their differences. Enforce that separation and there can be peace. From that starting point, we might even learn to like each other.
I have to add a note about his “justice layer.” He quotes Dr. King: “True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.” That would be wonderful if it was without cost, but the cost as actually implemented is clearly hatred. When communism failed, every multi-ethnic country that had been held together by the ideology of a common worker class blew apart with varying degrees of violence. Put three religions into the mix and you have Bosnia. However, while they were communist they didn't have beggars. Our system has plenty of issues, but be careful what you wish for.
Peace comes when you have a government that deals with individuals with common rules which protect their freedom to act, limited by the requirement that they give a similar freedom to others. Plenty of books amplify this into volumes but that's close enough for my purposes.
Amplifying the “good samaritan” story while ignoring all the “kill” commands in most holy books is useless. We have to cancel out those commands. A secular government is mandatory.
Someone who succeeded in that would be Mustafa Kemal Atatu'rk. I know very little about him, but he brought Turkey out from under religious rule. I guess our old buddy, Saddam, was kind of secular too. Secular is a necessary thing but it's not the only thing.
Enough. I've made my point that the book misses all relevant issues. The real solution has been around for several hundred years. As a result of its success one has to ask “Why would I want to kill a Muslim?” I wouldn't.