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Article: Arguing with Muslims: God-talk on campus.
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- November 16, 2004
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A WHILE BACK a Duke student was telling that he and his roommate were not getting along well. I asked him why. "Because he is a Muslim and I'm not." I asked him how that made a difference.
"When we moved in together, he asked me what my religion was. I told him that I was a sort of Christian. A Lutheran. I told him up front that my family and I weren't the very best Christians, that we only went to church occasionally, and it wasn't that big a deal to me. But my roommate has this nasty habit of asking embarrassing questions."
"What sort of questions?" I asked.
"Like after we had roomed together a few weeks, he asked me, 'Why do you Christians ...