Exactly What Did He Get Wrong?
I'm not Catholic. I'm a Baptist. We may disagree on doctrinal interpretation but we do agree on many key points. First, we worship the Hebrew deity YHWH, the god of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. We believe that God sent the person of his son to live a blameless human life and sacrifice himself for the sins of mankind. We believe that one day God will once again send his son Jesus to conquer the enemies of God, temporal and spiritual, and will end the enmity between God and man. On these things we agree.
The leader of the Catholic church has come under fire for comments made about Islam. As a Christian, I see a fellow believer who is being attacked for speaking the truth and I feel compelled to comment.
Pope Benedict quoted a 14th century emperor that questioned what Muhammad had brought to the world religions that was a new idea. The Pope is exactly right. Muhammad brought a moon-fertility god of the pagan Meccans, called Allah, and made him a god of war. He specifically commanded that followers were to command non-believers to convert at the point of a sword or die. He futher commanded that followers were to eradicate Jewish and Christian non-believers that he call infidels. Muhammad didn't bring anything new to the table. He simply adopted various qualities of pagan religions that he liked and packaged them in a monotheistic package he called Islam.
Today, Islamic leaders of religion and government are condemning the Pope's remarks. Like the American democrats shrilling against shining the light on Bill Clinton's infidelities, the truth appears to be the most damaging and painful of weapons. If Islam is the religion of peace, consider these quotes in response to the Pope's comments:
"Benedict, the author of such unfortunate and insolent remarks, is going down in history for his words," he said. "He is going down in history in the same category as leaders such as (Adolf) Hitler and (Benito) Mussolini." [He is going to cause a second Holocaust. Not that Muslims recognize the first Holocaust. Matter-of-fact, I'm pretty sure that Muslims wouldn't recognize a Holocaust if it jumped up and B___ slapped them.]
"The pope has thrown gasoline onto the fire ... in a world where the risk of a clash between religions is high" [He's making us kill you]
"Anyone who describes Islam as a religion as intolerant encourages violence" [You're going to kill us if we don't call you tolerant?]
"What he has done is that he has quoted very offensive remarks by some emperor hundreds of years ago," she added. "It is not helpful (because) we have been trying to bridge the gap, calling for dialogue and understanding between religions." [We talk and you understand, convert or we will kill you. We may kill you anyway just because you are a Jew or a Christian]
What he didn't say was the Muhammad was a pedophile, a false prophet, a psychopath, or anything else that was true. The Pope is right. Muhammad was a nutjob. Now he's a dead nutjob. To the shrieking Islamists in the press I say "Truth Hurts."
The leader of the Catholic church has come under fire for comments made about Islam. As a Christian, I see a fellow believer who is being attacked for speaking the truth and I feel compelled to comment.
Pope Benedict quoted a 14th century emperor that questioned what Muhammad had brought to the world religions that was a new idea. The Pope is exactly right. Muhammad brought a moon-fertility god of the pagan Meccans, called Allah, and made him a god of war. He specifically commanded that followers were to command non-believers to convert at the point of a sword or die. He futher commanded that followers were to eradicate Jewish and Christian non-believers that he call infidels. Muhammad didn't bring anything new to the table. He simply adopted various qualities of pagan religions that he liked and packaged them in a monotheistic package he called Islam.
Today, Islamic leaders of religion and government are condemning the Pope's remarks. Like the American democrats shrilling against shining the light on Bill Clinton's infidelities, the truth appears to be the most damaging and painful of weapons. If Islam is the religion of peace, consider these quotes in response to the Pope's comments:
"Benedict, the author of such unfortunate and insolent remarks, is going down in history for his words," he said. "He is going down in history in the same category as leaders such as (Adolf) Hitler and (Benito) Mussolini." [He is going to cause a second Holocaust. Not that Muslims recognize the first Holocaust. Matter-of-fact, I'm pretty sure that Muslims wouldn't recognize a Holocaust if it jumped up and B___ slapped them.]
"The pope has thrown gasoline onto the fire ... in a world where the risk of a clash between religions is high" [He's making us kill you]
"Anyone who describes Islam as a religion as intolerant encourages violence" [You're going to kill us if we don't call you tolerant?]
"What he has done is that he has quoted very offensive remarks by some emperor hundreds of years ago," she added. "It is not helpful (because) we have been trying to bridge the gap, calling for dialogue and understanding between religions." [We talk and you understand, convert or we will kill you. We may kill you anyway just because you are a Jew or a Christian]
What he didn't say was the Muhammad was a pedophile, a false prophet, a psychopath, or anything else that was true. The Pope is right. Muhammad was a nutjob. Now he's a dead nutjob. To the shrieking Islamists in the press I say "Truth Hurts."
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