Posted on 07/10/2017 9:16:36 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
Pope Francis received a noteworthy honor last week when Ahmed al-Tayeb, the Grand Imam of Cairo’s al-Azhar, thanked him for his “defense of Islam against the accusation of violence and terrorism.”
Has any other Pope of Rome in the history of Christianity ever been heralded as a “defender of Islam”?
Of course not. But the Catholic Church has come a long way since the days of Pope Callixtus III, who vowed in 1455 to “exalt the true Faith, and to extirpate the diabolical sect of the reprobate and faithless Mahomet in the East.”
If time travel could be arranged and Pope Francis could run into Callixtus III, Callixtus could “expect a punch,” for Francis is not just a defender of Islam, bit a defender of the Sharia death penalty for blasphemy: after Islamic jihadists murdered the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists who had drawn Muhammad, Francis obliquely justified the murders by saying that “it is true that you must not react violently, but although we are good friends if [an aide] says a curse word against my mother, he can expect a punch, it’s normal. You can’t make a toy out of the religions of others. These people provoke and then (something can happen). In freedom of expression there are limits.”
So for the Pope, murdering people for violating Sharia blasphemy laws is “normal,” and it isn’t terrorism for “Christian terrorism does not exist, Jewish terrorism does not exist, and Muslim terrorism does not exist. They do not exist,” he said in a speech last February. “There are fundamentalist and violent individuals in all peoples and religions—and with intolerant generalizations they become stronger because they feed on hate and xenophobia.”
So there is no Islamic terrorism, but if you engage in “intolerant generalizations,” you can “expect a punch.” The Pope, like the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, apparently thinks that the problem is not jihad terror, but non-Muslims talking about jihad terror; Muslims would be peaceful if non-Muslims would simply censor themselves and self-impose Sharia blasphemy restrictions regarding criticism of Islam.
For Pope Francis has no patience with those who discuss such matters: “I don’t like to talk about Islamic violence, because every day, when I read the newspaper, I see violence.” He said, according to Crux, that “when he reads the newspaper, he reads about an Italian who kills his fiancé or his mother in law.” The pontiff added: “They are baptized Catholics. They are violent Catholics.” He said that if he spoke about “Islamic violence,” then he would have to speak about “Catholic violence” as well.
That comparison made no sense, for Italian Catholics who killed their fiancés or mothers in law were not acting in accord with the teachings of their religion, while the Qur’an and Islamic teaching contain numerous exhortations to violence.
But Pope Francis, defender of Islam, cannot concern himself with such minutiae. Nor does he appear to be particularly concerned about the fact that all his false statements about the motivating ideology behind the massive Muslim persecution of Christians over the last few years only enables and abets that persecution, for if that ideology is not identified and confronted, it will continue to flourish.
The Pope of Rome, whom Catholics consider to be the earthly head of the Church, should be a defender of Christianity, not a defender of Islam, the religion that has been at war with Christianity and Judeo-Christian civilization since its earliest days. That any Christian leader would be called a “defender of Islam” by anyone only casts into vivid relief the absurdity of our age and the weakness of the free world. Can you imagine any Muslim leader ever being called a “defender of Christianity”? Of course not: Muslim leaders are more aware than their fond defender in the Vatican that Islam mandates warfare against unbelievers, not defense of their theological views.
Pope Francis is not only disastrously wrongheaded about an obvious fact that is reinforced by every day’s headlines; he is also deceiving and misleading his people about a matter of utmost importance, and keeping them ignorant and complacent about a growing and advancing threat.
“Leave them; they are blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.” (Matthew 15:14)\
My church is leaving me
Babylon rising. It is revealing what it really is. His Kahal, was born in the wilderness; not in Rome.
Pope Francis, useful idiot.
Pope Francis and the Muslims share a knowledge of Jesus the man, but they also share the lack of knowledge of Jesus the Christ and the regenerated heart that it requires.
Islam leader and believer the Pope is trying to convert the Catholic Church. And he is making waves and some is sticking to the weak and ignorant.
This Pope claims moral equivalency with Islam and Christianity in the same way that liberals/progressives/socialists/marxists claim it.
Socialism, globalism, hedonism, perversion of Gods Creations.. basically, if it historically Biblical Christianity, he has left it. And this guy has a sovereignty like a nation. Is he channeling his inner Hitler- Lenin Frankenstein.
Bergoglio hates the Catholic Church. He knows exactly what he is doing to it. He works for Soros, among others. He wants Europe overrun by violent Muslims. In fact, it already is.
Nothing this hater does should shake the faith of any Catholic. He is simply an enemy of the Church, put in place by corrupt cardinals.
Follow the $’s from $oreA$$ and other pro Jihadists.
Chamberlain was a decent but naive man who was trying to do the right thing. Can the same be said of Francis?
Pope Francis seems to want to become Catholicism’s first Imam.
Pope Francis, PROMOTER of Islam
So, hang in there. You are not alone.
Not the Church; just a bad shepherd.
Well said.
Prayers up for Holy Mother Church.
This Pope sucks. He is probably still mad the gay Vatican orgy got busted recently.
“Pope Francis, useful idiot.”
Popey is as much of an idiot as the Fraud is.
The only incompetence the Fraud has is his diction.
Popey and his handlers are just as dedicated to the eradication of Western civilization, and Popey is NOT an idiot.
In other messages to Fr. Gobbi, she says that the devil must think he has destroyed the Church before she (Mary) will defeat him, with the help of the little, humble people who are her “heel” that crushes the serpent (Gen 3:15)
Prayers up for you.
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