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Religious Ignorance, This Time With Feeling!

June 17, 2009

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Daniel Larison

They [the Iranians] have said this plan is rooted in their fundamental religious beliefs and doctrines regarding the return of their God to Earth. ~Peter Ferrara

Um, the Mahdi is not “their God,” because Twelver Shi’ites don’t believe that God was ever on earth, and indeed they take a dim view of people who do believe this. If Ferrara cannot get even this much right about the fundamental religious beliefs of Iran’s government, why would we trust anything else he has to say on this?

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Daniel Larison is a senior editor at TAC, where he also keeps a solo blog. He has been published in the New York Times Book Review, Dallas Morning News, World Politics Review, Politico Magazine, Orthodox Life, Front Porch Republic, The American Scene, and Culture11, and was a columnist for The Week. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Chicago, and resides in Lancaster, PA. Follow him on Twitter.

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