Jason Cherniak: Theologian

john begley
#1. February 9th, 2008, at 5:50 AM.

i’m a private school educated Roman Catholic or at least that’s the faith i’ve chosen NOT to observe after reaching my majority…..having said that..and a propos the question raised i will testify i was instructed during my confirmation classes by father conrad at st monica’s parish on Lulu Island in the late fifties that them chinese and africans and I think he mentioned Jews weren’t going to heaven…only us Dogans see…
when i came home that day told my ma this story….i said there’s something wrong here ma…..and she agreed.

Camper
#2. February 9th, 2008, at 6:02 AM.

Why, oh why would a person even bother to address Cherniak’s theological interpretatons? The guy idolizes Stephane Dion for crying out loud.

Blazingcatfur
#3. February 9th, 2008, at 6:30 AM.

WTF? Next he’ll be spewing forth about the Blood Libel. Seriously he is one poorly educated twit.

EMG
#4. February 9th, 2008, at 8:39 AM.

Off the top of my head? He’s got me stumped.

But let us reassure ourselves in the mean time:

Either Mr. Cherniak knows a great deal more about Christianity than Christians do (or more even than you do, Jay!–kidding, of course), or he knows less. I’m banking on the latter. –Given, at least, that if there were absolutely anything (scripturally or theologically) to support this ridiculous idea, we should’ve heard about it many, many, MANY times before from far more astute men than him. We should’ve done so, I hasten to add, long, long, LONG ago. No later than Sept. 12th, 2001, anyway.

Maybe he’s thinking of some of the feistier passages from the Psalms? … But, alas, these belong to the Old Testament. Not that I expect Mr. Cherniak to be very familiar with that document.

Kathy Shaidle
#5. February 9th, 2008, at 9:13 PM.

Must be some Amish thing.

Seriously, I’m an educated Catholic (which I realize doesn’t count as “Christian” among the “Left Behind” crowd) and covered the religion beat for years, online and off.

And I have never heard of such a thing, not even from the lips of “Baptist” Fred Phelps.

There is certainly not a single biblical word about such a Messianic project, in the Old or New Testament.

T. Shaw
#6. February 9th, 2008, at 9:35 PM.

We unenlightened idiots miss his point. Mr. C. can fabricate any lie so long as said lie advances the truth = the west, in general, and Christianity, in particular, are totally vile and deserve to be destroyed. Or, he wasn’t given the opportunity to cite chapter and verse???

MistahTibbs
#7. February 9th, 2008, at 11:59 PM.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Jesus, he’s obtuse.

MT

WL Mackenzie Redux
#8. February 10th, 2008, at 5:04 AM.

The more Cherniak is forced to defend his silly lockstep partisan mythos the more he reveals himself to be the uneducated philistine…keep the pressure on…the classic liberal-democrat issues of religious freedom and free expression exposes the ideological hypocrisy of neo-Liberal statist intolerance ….and ignorance.

Paul Morris
#9. February 11th, 2008, at 2:09 AM.

I agree with Ms. Shaidle & the others - Jason is a blithering idiot when it comes to his knowledge of Christianity - it wasn’t mohammed who said “Love your enemies,do good to, and pray for those who despitefully use you, for in so doing you will be showing yourselves to be chidlren of the Father who causes the rain to fall on the fields of the just and the unjust”- but it was Mohammed who said it’s a duty for his followers to kill infidels, Christians & Jews

Walkswithcoffee
#10. June 2nd, 2008, at 10:41 AM.

Jason Cherniak is referencing a view held by some fundamentalist Christians (particularly in the US) who believe the planet and the heathen are destroyed before Jesus returns; The world’s most popular fundamentalist novel - “The Late Great Planet Earth” (and movie of the same name) presents the view. The view is that before a thousand-year-reign when Jesus returns to earth there are seven years of tribulation that destroy the heathen. In contrast: neither offical Anglicanism, Roman Catholicsim, nor Greek Orthodox leadership believe that US fundamentalism has the correct interpretation of the Apostle John’s Book of Revelation. Nevertheless, the view that Jason references does exist - as demonstrated by about a 100 million copies and movie sold.