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To: Cronos
"Have you ever been inside a mosque or a temple or a pagoda? You can freely worship God in your thoughts and your words, you do not have to mouth what they want."

Yes, I've been in plenty...including mosques in Egypt, Morocco, and the great moseques of Turkey. I've also visited dozens of Buddhist shrines all over Asia. I didn't go to any of them to pray to my God...I went, observed the art, architecture and ceremony, and left. I'm not saying that a prayer offered to God there could not ascend to heaven, I'm saying that symbolically, it sends a very poor message for the head of the Catholic Church to have done so (which he gratefully did not). Since perhaps the central theme of Islam is the idea of submission to Allah, can you not see how, symbolically, the Pope's praying in a mosque under current world conditions would have looked like submission to, or at very least recognition of Allah? Praying in a place whose very walls are adorned with script proclaiming that there is no God but Allah and Muhammed is his prophet!

Instinctively you know I'm right, you just don't want to admit it.

90 posted on 05/11/2009 10:55:49 AM PDT by americanophile
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To: americanophile
can you not see how, symbolically, the Pope's praying in a mosque under current world conditions would have looked like submission to, or at very least recognition of Allah

no, because I've lived in Islamicc lands and can tell you that they wouldn't consider it a prayer if there was no bowing and the entire bowing process.
117 posted on 05/12/2009 12:58:45 AM PDT by Cronos (Ceterum censeo, Mecca et Medina delenda est)
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