[risk]

Is this the same Pope that kisses the Korand?

We've been over this many times on FR. The pope was not blessing the teachings but the true spiritual aspirations of the Koran's followers.

How many converts do you think he would make by denouncing the spiritual symbols of Islam directly? None. Perhaps he felt it better to remain pious while demonstrating the tolerance and love that Christianity has been known for spreading in the world.

[netmilsmom]

>> How many converts do you think he would make by denouncing the spiritual symbols of Islam directly? None. Perhaps he felt it better to remain pious while demonstrating the tolerance and love that Christianity has been known for spreading in the world<<

Wow! You are Catholic!! You can rationalize with the best of them!
JPII was reaching out but kissing the Quran was a terrible mistake as was allowing barebreasted woman in a native mass. He is human, this was not Dogma. I would rather think that he is now sorry than to think that all of this was planned.

Maybe if he gave as much attention to the Christians that are being persecuted in those non-Christian countries, he would be more of the spiritual leader we Catholics want him to be.

[broadsword]

How many converts do you think he would make by denouncing the spiritual symbols of Islam directly?

LOL! I would bet that not one single person converted to Catholicism just because the Pope kissed a tome of evil that sladers God, condems Christians to persecution and death and women to horrid fifth-class citizenship, genital mutilation and death for the slightest infraction. Wow! What a stretch. I would guess that that ugly, stupid, cowardly action pushed many thousands of good people away from the Church.

[O.C. - Old Cracker]

By kissing a book that promotes the death of anyone who does not adhere to its teachings? That sounds like the circle logic made famous by the United Nations.