Posted on 12/23/2019 5:48:32 PM PST by marshmallow
Francis dismisses need for Catholic conversion, makes comparison to Crusades
ROME (ChurchMilitant.com) - A distinguished authority on Islamic jihad has excoriated Pope Francis for equating the evangelization of Jews and Muslims with the Crusades.
"The Pope is purveying historical fiction," Dr. Robert Spencer, author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam and the Crusades, told Church Militant.
"The Crusades were not an exercise in forced conversion. In reality, they were a small-scale defensive response after 450 years of Islamic jihad aggression had conquered over half of Christendom, and an attempt to protect Christian pilgrims in the Holy Land," Spencer asserted.
Spencer, who argues in his work The History of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS, that the Roman Catholic Church "was at the forefront of efforts to resist jihad aggression in Europe," was responding to Francis' remarks to high school students not to convert Jews or Muslims to Catholicism.
During the Holy Father's surprise visit to the Pilo Albertelli High School on Friday, two pupils, Damiano and Francesco, asked the pontiff how he would respond to "people of other religious beliefs" and what he would say if an atheist came to him and asked him "for a fundamental reason to start believing."
Francis replied that his experience of growing up in Argentina, with its phenomenon of migration, had led him to "respect believing children of other religions," because in the public school he attended he "always had companions from other religions."
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The Pope is lying. That's what's going on.
It hasn't happened yet...and I'm not holding my breath waiting for it to happen in the future.
We learned Tbe Faith in our youth. Keep The Faith. Frankie can’t change it. When he contradicts The Faith, we know that he’s just vomiting heresy. Reject it, and him. Keep The Faith.
Poop Francois, the Dancing Boy of Islam.
Yeah but it doesn’t matter like it once did. Like I said in another post, this isn’t the middle ages and he doesn’t have the power to burn us for our non communist beliefs.
I said in a post this morning that the constitution and thee Bible are both dead. What I meant was they are NOT open to interpretation by the left.
They stated what they meant.
All we EVER need, as Christians, is The Bible.
We don’t need a MAN to tell us what is right or wrong.
I’m Catholic. But I’m not blind. This guy is either fulfilling a prophecy of false prophets or is just a left wing atheist nut.
Either way, none of us here are following him into hell.
Merry Christmas!
This pope is living proof that there is no such thing as apostolic succession
The Pope is lying. That's what's going on.
It sure looks like the vote is planning on heading up the global Caliphate. I guess he’ll probably declare himself the Twelfth Imam.
Liar, liar, robes on fire.
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Like I said in another post, this isn’t the middle ages and he doesn’t have the power to burn us for our non communist beliefs.
Well....yet.
And Amen!
I like that map....where’d you get it?
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