Posted on 01/06/2010 9:02:45 PM PST by Tamar Rush
ISSUING CRUSADER CALL
Cardinal Miloslav Vik, the outgoing Prague Archbishop, issued this warning, “Europe has denied its Christian roots from which it has risen and which could give it the strength to fend off the danger that it will be conquered by Muslims — which is actually happening.”
The Cardinal’s position stands in sharp opposition to recent remarks by Pope Benedict XVI, who professed his “deep respect for Islam” and “the virtues proclaimed by Islam.”
On his website www.kardinal.cz Cardinal Vik describes Islam as a barbaric force that threatens to obliterate the remains of Christendom.
“If Europe doesn’t change its relation to its own roots, it will be Islamized,” the 77-year-old cardinal writes. He blames immigration and Muslims’ high birth rate for helping Muslims to “easily fill the vacant space created as Europeans systematically empty the Christian content of their lives.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thelastcrusade.org ...
WARNING RE THAT LINK.
Avoid reading if you have high blood pressure.
Virtually every story is about some extremely outrageous Muslim treason etc. etc. etc.
ABSOLUTELY INDEED.
Outrageous.
Somebody gets it.
Unfortunately, he’ll just likely be written off as a religiously intolerant radical, and while the world is singing the praises of peaceful Islam (an oxymoron if ever there was) the world will be going to hell in a handbasket and we’ll all be wearing either burkas or long beards.
Sounds like he gets it.
The RCC did get it, several hundred years ago when they responded appropriately to muslim aggression.
For all the Crusades are vilified, (and things did happen in them that ought not to have) WE’D be speaking Arabic and living in tents if it weren’t for them.
ping
I can’t support them either. They should first and foremost stay the hell out of politics in the first place and concentrate on their calling and helping parishioners etc. That’s what I meant when I said I have my faith, my belief in God and that’s all I need. I know how I live my life and it isn’t surrounded with gold and all that glitz.
The toes part of iron, part of clay (Daniel ch. 2) = Mohammedanism. This was taught by very serious Bible prophesy teachers in England in the late 19th century, and they never did see what we can see today of the fierceness of Islam.
Agreed, but maybe not for the same reasons.
The Cardinal is quite right.
You may not fully appreciate this statement.
The bottom line is that with the fall of Christendom throughout the world, it is pretty well inevitable that Europe, as well as North America and Australia will all be lost to the muzzies. (This is especially true since the replacement for Christendom was the supremacy of liberalism)
This collapse started with the Protestant Reformation (sorry, but it did), continued on with the enlightenment revolutions in France, Italy, Portugal, and Spain.
The Catholic hierarchy, particularly the Avignon popes, were admittedly pretty corrupt, but an unfortunate effect of the Protestant Reformation was a throwing off of the principles in the oft-criticized Papal Bull, Unam Sanctum, which established a separation between the temporal and spiritual powers, while subordinating the temporal rule to the spiritual.
The divisions within Christendom created by the Reformation allowed for, and in many ways, tacitly encouraged the secular aspects of the enlightenment -- resulting in strongly anti-clerical revolutions throughout what remained of the Catholic world from the late 18th through the early 20th centuries (the revolutions in France, Portugal, Italy, and Mexico were particularly hazardous to the health of clerics). In the post-revolutionary governments, it was particularly stylish to ensure that no favor was given to religion and that they would work to eliminate any support to faith in the schools.
And out of this environment, it became easy for new social doctrines of liberalism, socialism, and modernism to emerge.
Do you realize that the European Union rejected a Vatican-supported move to acknowledge Europe's Christian heritage?
So we wonder why Europe is now being besieged.
As the Cardinal rightly pointed out, the reason why Christendom was able to beat back Islam at the Gates of Vienna is that there was a more-or-less unified Christendom unified under Christian rule that could beat back the hordes of a more-or-less unified Islam.
Unfortunately, now, with the demise of Christendom and the decimation of Christianity under the secular liberals, that unity is no longer possible...secular liberal democracies in formerly Christian countries now recognize Islam and Christianity as simply two silly superstitions, both of which must be barely tolerated under a concept of religious liberty...and what they don't recognize is that the majority of the followers of one of those two "silly superstitions" fundamentally agree, while the majority of the followers of the other of those two "silly superstitions" is merely biding its time.
And that's why I think, while the Cardinal is absolutely right, his warning will fall on utterly deaf ears.
Interesting. I didn’t know that.
Thanks.
*yawn*
I doubt anyone thought I agreed with every word and assertion of the Cardinal’s about every issue.
Only Christ’s return will save any of us from ourselves and from the satanic globalists currently tightening the noose so effectively.
. . . whether via their stooges the Mooselymbs or directly.
Those who most need to learn it, sadly, will reject it.
Thanks for the ping!
Thank you for sharing your insights, dear markomalley!
Well, find and support the ones who haven't and who don't. In the meantime, prepare for martyrdom. It's gonna be ugly.
If you get the Catholic Channel on Sirius, you also get EWTN on Sirius (Channel 160). You might find that a bit more to your liking (other than Abp. Dolan's program -- Thurs @ 1 PM, I rarely, if ever, listen to Catholic Channel)
During the Tribulation, those who come to Christ for salvation and reject the Antichrist will be beheaded. And there are many people who are coming around to the belief that the Antichrist may be a Muslim.
The Cardinal is right and his prediction will happen sooner than any of us think.
"Christendom" was a dicey proposition long before Martin Luther was a gleam in his daddy's eye.
CATHOLIC France -- both before the FR with the Avignon papacy mess and after the FR with Napoleon's conquests and their aftermath -- did as much as anything else to make "Christendom" the faded memory that it is today.
Or perhaps you are referring to another truth in markomalley's post?
Good points.
Thx.
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