Red Lentil & Cracked Wheat Soup With Fresh Mint & Pepper

To believe that two contradictory religions are both true is like saying, “2+2=4, or 5, or 37, or whatever you like.” To believe all religions simultaneously is to become hopelessly entangled in self-contradiction. One simply cannot accept the Hindu belief that there are 3000,000 or more gods and at the same time accept the Muslim belief that there is only one god. Nor can one embrace either Hinduism or Islam and Buddhism because historic Buddhism does not believe in a personal God at all. Or consider the religious opinions about the afterlife. Shintoism says there is no afterlife, just the here and now, so make the most of it. Buddhists seek Nirvana, the complete absence of desire. Christianity teaches that heaven is a place where all pure desires are satisfied in Jesus Christ (Rev. 22:4). Who is right? If there is a heaven at all, does it negate or satisfy desire? Opinions about judgment differ as well. Christianity teaches that “man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment” (Heb. 9:27). Hindus believe in a seemingly endless series of reincarnations. Well, which is it? Both views cannot be true.

Philip Graham Ryken

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Vegetables		Tamara3	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

60	g	Butter or olive oil
2		Onions, finely diced
200	g	Red lentils, rinsed
200	g	Fine bulgar, cracked wheat
2		Vegetable stock, up to 2 1/2
80	g	Tomato paste
		Red pepper paste
		Dried or fresh mint

INSTRUCTIONS

Heat the butter or olive oil and add the onions, cooking until golden
brown.  Add the rinsed lentils, fine bulgar, stock and tomato paste and
simmer for about an hour or until the lentils are tender.  Stir
vigorously to break up the lentils and season to taste with salt,
adding a little more stock if the soup is too thick.  Serve the soup
hot drizzle with some pepper paste and garnished with  fresh or dried
mint.  Converted by MC_Buster.  Per serving: 1522 Calories (kcal); 33g
Total Fat; (19% calories from  fat); 56g Protein; 257g Carbohydrate;
21mg Cholesterol; 14385mg  Sodium Food Exchanges: 14 1/2 Grain(Starch);
0 Lean Meat; 6 1/2  Vegetable; 0 Fruit; 8 1/2 Fat; 0 Other
Carbohydrates  Converted by MM_Buster v2.0n.

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Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 188 Calories From Fat: 6 Total Fat: <1g Cholesterol: 0mg Sodium: 645mg Potassium: 1267.4mg Carbohydrates: 43.6g Fiber: 8.6g Sugar: 22.5g Protein: 6.9g