Short of the return of Jesus The Christ; The King of Kings and Lord of Lords and HIS cleanup at Armageddon,
The Cardinal is quite right.
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.
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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.