Posted on 09/15/2006 10:10:59 AM PDT by PierreLegrand
Pope Benedict is starting to give me reasons to rejoin the Catholic Faith. If there is such a thing as speaking truth to power then he is fully committed to such a course. No namby pamby beating around the bushes, he goes straight for the central issue regarding Islam’s dealings with the West. The debate about whether Islam can be reformed enough must center around Mohammed himself, his life, his example, since Islam revolves around him. If Mohammed was a radical then exactly how is the religion to reform itself without losing its soul.
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Freepers not sure if this was correct to post. If not please let me know and I won't do it again. Thank you. I posted it because I have seen numerous other links to blogs. If it is improper don't hesitate to let me know.
The Muslims are going to ruin their career over buring pictures of the Pope. They should consult with Sinead O'Connor on this issue.
Everything looks ok. Welcome aboard brother!
The truth hurts, doesn't it?
That'd be a reform, though, shaving their heads!
Islam is a religion of Murder, rape, facisim, and hatred.
Prove me wrong.
Oh Moslems, Live by the sword, DIE by the sword. Any questions?
What career?
In any case, it's OK -- I wipe my butt daily with either pictures of Mohommed or pages of the Koran.
At least the Holy Father has the courage to say what the Western political sissies are too afraid to say.
May God bless Pope Benedict!!!
LOL...what soul?
Islam is meltdown just waiting to happen. Maybe now the timid Western leaders can take courage from the Pope's words and begin to call islam what it really is. But I'm guessing that Tony Snow will inform the President that Pope Benedict called islam a 'religion of peace', and the media just misinterpreted him.
I think that might have been the purpose of his speech. It was a rallying cry to Catholics. The Pope gave a strong signal that the Catholic Church isn't going to let Western Civilization close their eyes to the centuries old struggle between Christianity and Islam.
The 14th since when? Last Tuesday?
(Or maybe since last year, if they're only counting ones where the Pope had some connection to it.)
Looks good, dude. Welcome to Free Republic.
By the way, welcome to Free Republic.
Fourteenth Worldwide Muslim Meltdown
With apologies to:
19TH NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
(Jagger/Richards)
You're the kind of person
You meet at certain dismal dull affairs.
Center of a crowd, talking much too loud
Running up and down the stairs.
Well, it seems to me that you have seen too much in too few years.
And though you've tried you just can't hide
Your eyes are edged with tears.
You better stop
Look around
Here it comes, here it comes, here it comes, here it comes
Here comes your fourteenth worldwide Muslim Meltdown.
When you were a child
You were treated kind
But you were never brought up right.
You were always spoiled with a thousand toys
But still you cried all night.
Your mother who neglected you
Owes a million dollars tax.
And your father's still perfecting ways of making sealing wax.
You better stop, look around
Here it comes, here it comes, here it comes, here it comes
Here comes your nilne-teenth nervous breakdown.
Oh, who's to blame, that girl's just insane.
Well nothing I do don't seem to work,
It only seems to make matters worse. Oh please.
You were still in school
When you had that fool
Who really messed your mind.
And after that you turned your back
On treating people kind.
On our first trip
I tried so hard to rearrange your mind.
But after while I realized you were disarranging mine.
You better stop, look around
Here it comes, here it comes, here it comes, here it comes
Here comes your fourteenth worldwide Muslim Meltdown.
Here comes your fourteenth worldwide Muslim Meltdown
Here comes your fourteenth worldwide Muslim Meltdown
Thanks for that link.
As Clint Eastwood said, 'Dyin' ain't much of a living'
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached."
Sounds right on the money to me. What's wrong with it?
The history of Islamic victories is the parade of capitulations by tired, demonalized, weakened, internally paralyzed societies.
Like a bacterial infection, Islam spreads in an sick host - not in a well one.
Bump for later read!
Their fame and stardom career. It's been going bonkers these past few years for Muslims.
Disaffected youth, rebelling against their Christian Conservative parents, have been converting to Islam like crazy. The Muzzies take the number 1 or number 2 billing on the prime time news shows nearly every night. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart even sought out and hired a Muslim reporter/comedian. Look at all the Hollywood stars lining up to talk about how great the Muslims are and how bad mean ol' President Bush is. The Muslims are really hot on college campuses right now, too. Especially the Ivy League colleges.
People are protesting for them, people are protesting against them, people are drawing editorial cartoons about them.
Thousands of soldiers from the U.S. and allied nations have gone to the Middle East ... all for the Muzzies.
All this attention is really helping their career and bringing Islam back to the forefront of the world.
Of course, trashing the Pope makes it all pretty untenable now. Some folks let the fame and fortune go to their heads and they think they're untouchable. I realize it's a different Pope, and maybe since this one has already come under fire from the liberals for being a "Nazi" the Muslims can weather whatever storm comes along from this. We'll just have to see how bad their second album is.
The Church does not exist to be "politically correct."
The Pope was speaking to his own and giving them reason to consider the times in which we live.
I believe there was no other reason for his words.
It's better to appreciate that than to complain "why not more?"
What? Pope Benedict has taken a firm stand, not only against "radical" islam, but against islam itself. This is something neither Bush nor any other Western leader has the guts to do. Just recently the Holy Father stated that "islam and democracy will never mix until islam decides to reinterpret the koran", (paraphrase). That, my friend, is a complete condemnation of all of islam. The man in the White House still calls them a "religion of peace", and he commands the greatest army on earth. Even with all this might behind him, President Bush will quote that Greek philosopher who called Islam "brutal and inhuman" when Hell freezes over. Islam is on fire, literally, because of the Pope's words and his stance, and you have the b@lls to say the Pope isn't taking a stand? Pure ignorance on your part.
If you are looking, however, for the Pope to give instruction, courage and leadership to the West's timid leaders, I think he does that rather wonderfully, as a religious leader; but most of the West's leaders are self-styled 'born agains' or other non-Catholics who aren't looking to the Pope for political or spiritual guidance in the first place, nor would they follow it if offered. But hey, this is Free Republic, where the majority of members seem to be anti-Catholic bigots anyway, so fire away at the only leader on earth with the b@lls to call islam what it really is, "brutal and inhuman".
We are at war. Where does our spiritual leader stand in relationship to that war? The focus of this war is reminiscent of the muslim invasion of Europe in the middle ages. We need someone to wake us up, not reassure us that everything can be peacefully resolved. If there is one thing that has become crystal clear in the last several years it's that the conflict between radical islam and Christianity cannot be peacefully resolved. The Pope is in the crosshairs of islamofacists. I believe the only reason they do not actively attempt his assassination is because they realize they have not yet infiltrated and marginalized Christianity adequately yet.
I have been a practicing Catholic for 50 years.
19 Pray also for me, that whenever I open my mouth, words may be given me so that I will fearlessly make known the mystery of the gospel, 20 for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may declare it fearlessly, as I should.
Your article is most welcome and spot on IMHO. Welcome to FR.
I am not a member of his blog, so I did not review his other posts on the site, but I was curious as to why he called it the "14th" meltdown. What were the other 13?
Real "practicing" Catholics don't tell the Pope how to do his job.
Yes they do. The Pope is infallible in matters of interpretation of the scriptures and in that context he has no peer and deserves no criticism. In all other matters he is as fallible as I and as such is subject to criticism. Your critical assessment of a "practicing" Catholic tells me a lot. Any Catholic who shares in the bread is equal in the eyes of the church and should beware any who claim more piety.
GOD BLESS POPE BENEDICT!! There goes his trip to Turkey!! better get those swiss guards around him!!
Interesting, isn't it, how it's a good thing for a "practicing" Catholic to criticize the Holy Father, but a bad thing to criticize a lay "catholic" who criticizes the Pope.
In any case, though the Holy Father is certainly fallible in non-doctrinal matters, who are you to criticize this man for not being more condemning and confrontational with islam? Should he himself be the spark of WWIII or worldwide riots? Does he need to speak like Michael Moore, cutting to the bone to make his point? He spoke of Islam's evil theology in his speech, and he spoke of other evils which permeate our times, (such as weak-kneed Catholics and the falling away from the faith). Pope Benedict has lamented the evils of islam on several other occassions in recent months as well. I think maybe you should either read more or gain a better understanding of what the Holy Father's job description is. You yourself said he is fallable in matters not pertaining to faith and morals, so I guess you want to be his political and spiritual advisor? Write him a letter and ask for the job.
I am right there with you regarding the Holy Father. He is doing far more than any other world leader right now regarding sounding the call to arms against Islam. As much as I love what President Bush has done he still has a terrifically large blind spot when it comes to Islam.
Let us not forget that Pope John Paul's attempted assassination by Mehmet Ali Agca a Muslim.
Then we have the whole history of the Catholic Churches central role in throwing Islam into the ditch the last time Islam tried to rule the world.
Tis only by faith that we will win this war...only by faith. The rational secularists are mightily confused by Islam.
It looks right & proper to me.
Welcome.
Good to see you you here- I've been trying to wake people up about this menace to the West for years:
There are so many 1000's of times us Christians have been kicked around...we never act like a bunch of thugs...never!!!
Only the 14th worldwide meltdown in 14 centuries???
I am certainly not qualified but you do seem well qualified for the "condescending Angel" position. My opinions on this forum are just that, my opinions. They are not intended as advice but as my own expressed doubts and concerns. Casting truth on the opinion will either reinforce them or trigger me to rethink them. I read the Pope's speech and I drew the same conclusion as Rush Limbaugh, that the Pope should have used his own words rather than quoting another's. I agree the Pope has taken a "Politically defensible" position on Islam. In my opinion, he has not gone far enough with a direct threat against Christianity.
I can accept the humor, but it was not apparent and thus it was taken as meaningful but unexplained.
The word "umpteenth" is a good catchall phrase for what you intended; and is usually understood to mean latest/last in an indefinitely numerous series.
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