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Pope Francis: Christians Should Feel Shame for Global Strife (Not Muslims. Christians.)
Frontpage Mag ^ | 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 doesn’t 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 Cairo’s 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, it’s normal. You can’t 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 isn’t 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 religions—and 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 don’t 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 Qur’an 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 today’s 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 day’s 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

The Vatican leaks told us all we need to know about “Pope” Francis.

This guy is a stanist, working on behalf of the Globalists, who blackmailed Bennedict into resigning


21 posted on 04/02/2018 11:09:53 AM PDT by WashingtonFire (President Trump - it's like having your dad as President)
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To: DivineMomentsOfTruth

Why are the vast majority of Catholics staying quiet on many things this Pope has asserted?


22 posted on 04/02/2018 11:16:16 AM PDT by cranked
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To: cranked

Jesus Christ didn’t come up with the Sheep metafor randomly. It appears He understood human nature.


23 posted on 04/02/2018 11:18:06 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: DivineMomentsOfTruth
This has been brewing since V2, when the nut cases were uncaged.
24 posted on 04/02/2018 11:18:14 AM PDT by Little Bill (VN 65 - 68)
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To: SeekAndFind

I am so tired of this lowlife scumbag Marxist thug running his suck. The moslem hordes have been at war with the rest of the world for the past 1400 years. Has he never read the koran? I would think he would have at least read the Cliff notes. He has to know that the koran is nothing more than a field manual for making war against the rest of the world. And yet he spews this drivel.


25 posted on 04/02/2018 11:18:20 AM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: RinaseaofDs

Yep, that answers my question......=.=


26 posted on 04/02/2018 11:22:18 AM PDT by cranked
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To: SeekAndFind

Since we are supposed to feel shame for the crimes of others, shall we also feel shame for the crime the College of Cardinals committed in electing this doofus?


27 posted on 04/02/2018 11:24:16 AM PDT by DPMD
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To: cranked

How about that spelling of metaphor. Wow. Old age maybe?


28 posted on 04/02/2018 11:27:32 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: DivineMomentsOfTruth

Mohammed in a miter.


29 posted on 04/02/2018 11:29:19 AM PDT by bravo whiskey (Never bring a liberal gun law to a gun fight.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Catholics need to quickly do all they can to dump this fraud.


30 posted on 04/02/2018 11:30:51 AM PDT by Gator113 ( ~~Trump 2020~~)
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To: cranked

Most Catholics, when it comes to the Pope, hold to the dictum of Thumper’s Mom—If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.

He’s doing an admirable job in practically reminding some people that very few Papal musings are authoritative, and even fewer are infallible. He is very good in illustrating that the magisterial teachings are not individual isolated statements that solve everything, but part of a complex tapestry that needs to be appreciated to enter into a sophisticated understanding of Church teaching. He is a good reminder that in addition to the current Pope we have many other sources of magisterial teaching and tradition that we can delve into. And he exists. And God wills his good so much that He died to give him a shot at dwelling with Him forever.

I just said five nice things about him. But finding nice things to say about him is, for me, a little harder than it was with his immediate predecessors.


31 posted on 04/02/2018 11:31:45 AM PDT by Hieronymus (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G. K. Chesterton)
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To: SeekAndFind

NOT MY POPE!


32 posted on 04/02/2018 11:32:06 AM PDT by House Atreides (BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY)
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To: Gator113

RE: Catholics need to quickly do all they can to dump this fraud.

I am not Catholic, but here’s my question to those in the know ... is there a way to remove a sitting Pope? (like an impeachment process?)


33 posted on 04/02/2018 11:33:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Every time I see that commie Pope I feel shame...
34 posted on 04/02/2018 11:55:07 AM PDT by GOPJ (Hogg doesn't know the horror of the Gulag but if he gets his way we'll all find out.)
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To: SeekAndFind

... is there a way to remove a sitting Pope?


The preferred way in the renaissance was poison. This, however, goes against traditional Catholic moral teaching.


35 posted on 04/02/2018 11:57:06 AM PDT by Hieronymus (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G. K. Chesterton)
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To: cranked

If I were Catholic, I would be even more outraged than I am.


36 posted on 04/02/2018 11:57:42 AM PDT by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and persue it steadily." -GW)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

As a card-carrying Protestant, I can say to the Pope, “Piss off!”


37 posted on 04/02/2018 12:28:28 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. ~ Hosea 8:7)
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To: Zathras
“I feel shame that this was the best Pope they could find.”

But I thought Catholics believe that “Divine Intervention” assures them that they will always get the Pope that their God wanted. I mean all that “ecclesiastical theater” what with the white and black smoke coming from the Sistine Chapel and all was "controlled” by their Almighty.

38 posted on 04/02/2018 12:42:26 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: SeekAndFind

I am a fallen away Catholic. I don’t know the answer to your question.


39 posted on 04/02/2018 12:43:18 PM PDT by Gator113 ( ~~Trump 2020~~)
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To: vette6387

Sometime God intends to humiliate and punish.


40 posted on 04/02/2018 12:43:39 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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