Ted Rall for February 19, 2015
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You have to respect others' religion- even if it's not your religion, or you have no religion at all. (Man 1: I'd never draw the prophet Muhammed. Courtesy. Peace be upon him.) (Man 2: why you calling him "the prophet?" yer zoroastrian.) However, you aren't expected to show any difference to their politics. (Man 1: You're socialist?!? What an idiot! I am a liberal and thus perfect!) Or their tastes. (Man 1: Your music and books and clothes and comics and car are worthless- just like you.) Unless they're intertwined with religion. (Man 2: God tells me to be into that stuff.) (Man 1: Respect.)
Furniture maker adheres to the heresy known as Arianism. Here’s a passage from the wiki article:Arianism is the nontrinitarian, heterodoxical teaching, first attributed to Arius (c. AD 250–336), a Christian presbyter in Alexandria, Egypt, concerning the relationship of God the Father to the Son of God, Jesus Christ. All mainstream branches of Christianity consider the teaching to be heretical. Arius asserted that the Son of God was a subordinate entity to God the Father. The Ecumenical First Council of Nicaea of 325 deemed it to be a heresy. At the regional First Synod of Tyre in 335, Arius was exonerated.1 After his death, he was again anathemised and pronounced a heretic again at the Ecumenical First Council of Constantinople of 381.2 The Roman Emperors Constantius II (337–361) and Valens (364–378) were Arians or Semi-Arians.
The Arian concept of Christ is that the Son of God did not always exist, but was created by—and is therefore distinct from—God the Father. This belief is grounded in the Gospel of John (14:28)3 passage: “You heard me say, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.”
Arianism is defined as those teachings attributed to Arius, which are in opposition to orthodox teachings on the nature of the Trinity and the nature of Christ. These orthodox teachings, while always held by the Church, were formally affirmed by the first two Ecumenical Councils of the Church.
Arianism is also often used to refer to other nontrinitarian theological systems of the 4th century, which regarded Jesus Christ—the Son of God, the Logos—as either a created being (as in Arianism proper and Anomoeanism), or as neither uncreated nor created in the sense other beings are created (as in Semi-Arianism).