Posted on 11/23/2019 6:23:47 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The indefatigable apologist for Islam Pope Francis on Monday issued yet another mea culpa to Muslims, saying: “A scene from The Song of Roland comes to me as a symbol, when the Christians defeat the Muslims and line them up in front of the baptismal font, with one holding a sword. And the Muslims had to choose between baptism or the sword. That is what we Christians did.”
Was it really? The Song of Roland is actually a work of fiction, a French epic poem loosely based on the Battle of Roncevaux Pass between Muslim invaders and Christian defenders in the year 778. As The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS shows, in the eleventh century, three hundred years after the battle, The Song of Roland appeared, describing the heroism of Charlemagne’s nephew Roland, who is leading the rear guard of Charlemagne’s forces and is caught up in the Muslim ambush.
Roland has an oliphant, a horn made of an elephant’s tusk, which he can use to call for help, but he initially declines to do so, thinking it would be cowardly. Finally, Roland does blow his horn. Charlemagne, way ahead of the rear guard, nonetheless hears Roland’s horn and hurries back, but it is too late: Roland and his men are dead, and the Muslims victorious. Charlemagne, however, pursues and vanquishes the Muslims, and captures Saragossa.
Thus the legend. The Song of Roland was enormously popular and inculcated in the Christians who sang and celebrated it what came to be known (in the European Middle Ages) as knightly virtues: loyalty, courage, and perseverance, even in the face of overwhelming odds. These were virtues that would be needed if Europe was to hold out against the ever-advancing jihad.
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When was the last time a Christian jumped in a bus full of Islamist, yelled “Praise Jesus” and pushed the button on their vest full of explosives? I have no doubt that this Pope is either possessed by a demon or is one himself. How any sane person could remain a Catholic with this evil creature as its leader is beyond comprehension.
RE: One of these days this Pope will make a pronouncement that’s consistent with what the nuns taught me in Catholic school during the 50s and 60s.
Well, don’t stop there, tell us what the nuns taught.
This guy is an imposter and very dangerous.
Indeed you are correct and that’s what I’ve done. I’ll go back if we get a real pope.
The devil knows Scripture and uses it for his own twisted purposes. I am quite sure he intends to twist this one to his own purposes: "I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will scatter."
Catholics have got to sober up and realize he's definitely advancing on Part 1. For God's sake, man, don't give him Part 2!!
Catholics: Are you Confirmed? Do you know what the term "Church Militant" means? Do you realize you have the Sword of the Spirit, the Word of God, that will "enable us to stand our ground against evil"? (Ephesians 6:13)?
Do you get that? Good. Then stand up and fight.
“I would be leaving now, for sure”
I’m a Catholic who misses JPII dearly.
Over the years I’ve gone to many services in churches that aren’t Catholic.
They are all going left.
The Pope maybe a Communist but my local Catholic priests are not.
Your Holiness:
Please repeat after me:
“I don’t consider myself a Christian in the Biblical sense of that term, and I haven’t for quite some time.”
There!....That wasn’t so hard, now was it?
You be you.
Let someone else be Pope.
The church has dirty skirts we all know. But what counts a lot more now is how things are today. Today the church doesn’t murder or torture people. Islam does. That’s the key difference. we need to defend ourselves and our countries from Islam - not from Christianity
This evil pope is not the entirety of the Church. The Church will survive this heretic.
The legitimate Pope was taken out in a coup and replaced by a Satanic pretender.
Why let Bergoglio the Heretic keep you from the Eucharist?
It’s getting to the point with this guy where protesters might just put up a effigy of him tied to a stake weary of the directives he is making.
I don’t.. I’ve just changed my ways a bit to still worship our Lord and Savior on my terms.
This man is a manifest material heretic. As such, he is arguably not Christian. Popes have been deposed for far, far less.
On your terms? Not His terms?
This pope is evil.
Hey Cardinals and Bishops...TIME TO REIGN THIS GODLESS POPE IN! DO YOUR DUTY!
Yeah, but the West has grown in the last thousand years or so...
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