Posted on 05/25/2016 5:18:14 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Catholic Cardinal Kurt Koch, who heads the Vatican’s office for ecumenical relations, said that Christians “have a mission to convert all non-Christian religions’ people,” including Muslims, to Christianity, with the exception of those who follow Judaism because of its unique, familial relationship with Christianity: both religions “have the same roots.” For Muslims, he added, the “Islamic tradition” in terms of the Abrahamic religions “is not the same.” […]
“It is very clear that we can speak about three Abrahamic religions, but we cannot deny that the view of Abraham in the Jewish tradition and the Christian tradition and the Islamic tradition is not the same,” said Cardinal Koch. […]
Cardinal Koch further said, “We must above all convert these Muslims that use violence from the abuse of religion because the sister of all religion is freedom and peace and not violence, and when a religion uses violence to convert others, this is an abuse of religion.” …
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Ok. The Church has been attempting to do that, from time to time, for 1,400 years. The results, abysmal. What’s your plan B, Rome?
Hope the cardinal has a titanium collar. Guy just painted a target on his neck.
Hope the cardinal has a titanium collar. Guy just painted a target on his neck.
Plan B: Treat them as Christ would while preaching the resurrected Christ.
Howbout preventing losing Christians leaving church?
Churches closing, converting to mosques, dwindling priests and nuns.
I hope the Pope and his closet advisers go to Syria in to ISIS strongholds and work on converting them.
I suspect historically that is what missionaries attempted to do?
From what I’ve seen lately, the mission is to run off Catholics and anyone who halfway looks toward the Pope for guidance.
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