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Pope Francis: Christians Should Feel Shame for Global Strife (Not Muslims. Christians.)
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| 04/02/2018
| Robert Spencer
Posted on 04/02/2018 10:39:10 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Never missing an opportunity to confuse, disappoint, and demoralize the Catholic faithful, Pope Francis, according to the Latin American Herald Tribune, said on Good Friday that Christians ought to express shame for the actions of those who are leaving future generations a world fractured by divisions and wars.
Speaking to Jesus, the Pope said that our gaze upon you is full of shame, repentance and hope. Before your supreme love, shame pervades us for having left you alone to suffer for our sins
shame for having chosen Barabbas and not you, power and not you, appearance and not you, the god of money and not you, worldliness and not eternity.
The Pope added that Christians should also feel shame for those who allowed themselves to be deceived by ambition and vainglory, losing sight of their dignity and first love, leaving behind a world fractured by divisions and wars and consumed by selfishness.
In speaking of those who have left the world fractured by divisions and wars, Pope Francis doesnt seem to have said a word about the religion that actually teaches that believers should wage war against and subjugate unbelievers. But of course, about that religion he has said, Authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to every form of violence.
So it is the Christians who should feel shame for the strife in the world, not anyone else.
This is nothing new. Pope Francis last September met in the Vatican with Dr. Muhammad bin Abdul Karim Al-Issa, the secretary general of the Muslim World League (MWL), a group that has been linked to the financing of jihad terror. During the meeting, al-Issa thanked the Pope for his fair positions on what he called the false claims that link extremism and violence to Islam.
In other words, al-Issa was thanking the Pope for dissembling about the motivating ideology of jihad terror, which his group has been accused of financing, and for defaming other religions in an effort to whitewash Islam.
Nor was that the first time a Muslim leader thanked this Pope for being so very useful. Last July, Ahmed al-Tayeb, the Grand Imam of Cairos 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? In my forthcoming book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS, I detail the centuries of effort that the warriors of jihad poured into trying to conquer and subjugate the Christians of Europe, and the pivotal role that the Catholic Church played in the resistance to the jihad. Pope Francis, unlike his predecessors, would like not have called for a defense against the jihadis, but would have opened the gates to them.
After all, Francis is not just a defender of Islam, but 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, its normal. You cant 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 isnt 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 religionsand 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.
Pope Francis has no patience with those who discuss such matters: I dont 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 Quran 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. The creeping idolatry of the papacy that is rampant in todays Catholic Church, with all too many Catholics treating every word of the Pontiff as if it were a divine oracle, only makes matters worse.
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 days 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. Yes, Christians should feel shame shame that this man is Pope.
Leave them; they are blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit. (Matthew 15:14)
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: christians; muslims; popefrancis; war
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To: SeekAndFind
This so-called Pope is a FRAUD.
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posted on
04/02/2018 10:40:37 AM PDT
by
DivineMomentsOfTruth
("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and persue it steadily." -GW)
To: SeekAndFind
Yeah, all those Christian groups murdering the innocents just going about their lives with the collusion of the Jews.
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posted on
04/02/2018 10:41:04 AM PDT
by
SkyDancer
( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
To: SeekAndFind
You can only have shame for your own actions. You can have sorrow or regret for someone else’s, not shame.
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posted on
04/02/2018 10:41:21 AM PDT
by
Campion
(Halten Sie sich unbedingt an die Lehre! [Hold absolutely onto the Teaching! -- BXVI])
To: SeekAndFind
ImPopester.
He is a tool of Satan.
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posted on
04/02/2018 10:41:22 AM PDT
by
Lurkinanloomin
(Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
To: DivineMomentsOfTruth
Pope Francis soap on a rope
Expressly for Dopes
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posted on
04/02/2018 10:44:10 AM PDT
by
Gasshog
( Fight climate change - Try beating the air and scream at the sky)
To: SeekAndFind
He sounds just like Obama.
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posted on
04/02/2018 10:44:14 AM PDT
by
rightwingintelligentsia
(Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
To: SeekAndFind
Every day this Pope sounds more and more like Barak Obama
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posted on
04/02/2018 10:45:28 AM PDT
by
rdcbn
To: DivineMomentsOfTruth
The anti-pope is a freemason Luciferean. They literally worship the devil and the New Age Globalist soodmites’ Religion is the worship of Lucifer. The Crowley “virtue” system of total anti-reality, where Good is Evil, Up is Down and Boys are Girls (radical egalitarianism of Marxism-—anti-God, anti-Science, anti-Truth).
It is why you have to get your children out of the public school system—they embed the Luciferean worldview which will make free will impossible.....they will be programmed, controlled “bots” for life.
Only free play, free association and a Natural Family embed reality, science, and Truth (God’s Design of the World).
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posted on
04/02/2018 10:46:10 AM PDT
by
savagesusie
(When Law ceases to be Just, it ceases to be Law. (Thomas A./Founders/John Marshall)/Nuremberg)
To: DivineMomentsOfTruth
The Pope must Die......t.
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posted on
04/02/2018 10:46:10 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: SeekAndFind
Christians caused Nero to burn Rome...
To: SeekAndFind
I feel shame that this was the best Pope they could find.
For someone who claims he doesn’t watch TV, he sure gets all the DNC Talking Points fast.
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posted on
04/02/2018 10:47:12 AM PDT
by
Zathras
To: SeekAndFind
Its interesting how leftists, statists and social engineers must speak and operate - so many similarities. Personal and collective guilt are all common tools
Nietzsche would have called this the “slave morality.”
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posted on
04/02/2018 10:47:56 AM PDT
by
PGR88
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
04/02/2018 10:49:08 AM PDT
by
chris37
(I love my German Shepherd girls!)
To: SeekAndFind
More evidence of the False Profit.
To: savagesusie
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posted on
04/02/2018 10:54:00 AM PDT
by
DivineMomentsOfTruth
("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and persue it steadily." -GW)
To: PGR88
Nietzsche would have called this the slave morality.
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Of course, he also referred to Christianity as slave morality too.
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posted on
04/02/2018 10:59:03 AM PDT
by
Bishop_Malachi
(Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
To: SeekAndFind
This false Pope is the only true source of shame.
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posted on
04/02/2018 11:00:22 AM PDT
by
The Toll
To: SeekAndFind
Shaming a whole class of people is really bad theology.
Good Theology says we can do things like that and invite the listeners to think about it.
Bad Theology
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posted on
04/02/2018 11:04:22 AM PDT
by
CptnObvious
(uestion her now.)
To: SeekAndFind
It’s way past time for the council of cardinals or who ever elects the pope to get rid of this Marxist stooge.
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posted on
04/02/2018 11:05:45 AM PDT
by
jmacusa
("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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