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Vatican: Burning Quran is outrageous, grave move
Associated Press via Yahoo! News ^ | 2010 Sept 8

Posted on 09/08/2010 8:40:53 AM PDT by Wiz

Edited on 09/08/2010 8:42:03 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

VATICAN CITY

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: catholic; islam; koran; vatican; wot
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To: christianhomeschoolmommaof3

You don’t understand do you. AlQaida has all the recruits it can handle and then some. The Iranians take advantage of the situation as well.


221 posted on 09/08/2010 11:07:56 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: TheThirdRuffian
Well, let them act violent, so we can kill them.

They need the salvation of Christ just as we all do. This publicity stunt does nothing to bring them to Christ and is therefor a waste of time for a Christan 'pastor'. They would be better off putting their efforts into some sort of outreach designed to convert.
222 posted on 09/08/2010 11:10:17 AM PDT by TalonDJ
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To: chris37

And you think a book burning that does NOTHING to stop Islam but DOES inflame attacks is a good idea?

If you want to do something about Islam, then do something USEFUL. But I don’t want to see people killed over an idiot pastor that wants his 15 minutes.


223 posted on 09/08/2010 11:10:31 AM PDT by christianhomeschoolmommaof3
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To: Patriotic1
How ridiculous! The Council is speaking as part of the inter-religious dialog that it has been commissioned for......This is where the whole ‘judge not’ statement comes in: interpreting motives is best left to God.

Are you saying that COUNCIL can speak and I can't? IT WAS COMMISSIONED BY MAN not GOD!!

Get the true meaning of judge not and what God was speaking about! Don't post Scripture at me for intimidation purposes - satan did that.
224 posted on 09/08/2010 11:11:25 AM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: muawiyah

I understand perfectly well. The people supporting this “church” are being played.


225 posted on 09/08/2010 11:12:40 AM PDT by christianhomeschoolmommaof3
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To: Wiz
When the First Babtist Church of Riyadh has their annual pork roast, I'll condemn the Koran burning.
226 posted on 09/08/2010 11:13:16 AM PDT by alarm rider (The left will always tell you who they fear the most. What are they telling you now?)
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To: ohioWfan
Your denial is becoming lying, and your attempts to personalize it are uncalled for, I don't know who you are.

I'm being clear, you are avoiding your post calling for people to butt out that haven't served in Iraq or Afghanistan
"I never said that, nor implied that."

What do you call this?

To: TheThirdRuffian
Are you a soldier in the field of battle? Have you served in Iraq or Afghanistan?
Just curious as to where your 'bravery' comes from.
83 posted on Wednesday, September 08, 2010 9:09:56 AM by ohioWfan

227 posted on 09/08/2010 11:13:41 AM PDT by ansel12
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To: christianhomeschoolmommaof3

People will be attacked and killed by muslims regardless of what this preacher does or does not do to the book of satan, because muslims are insane, murderous barbarians.

You are going to see people killed by muslims in the name of allah, because people are too damn scared to stand up to them, may piss them off, and they might attack us. They are going to attack anyway.

We are at war, because Islam declared war on western civilization, and people die in wars. So, we either defeat them utterly, or we get defeated utterly by them. Take your pick, Ma’am. I’m not going out on my knees, I’ll say that right now.


228 posted on 09/08/2010 11:18:15 AM PDT by chris37
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To: Wiz

The Roman church, which used to ruthlessly ferret out what it called anti-Christian heresy, has in recent years taken to making kissy-poo towards any religion, the idea seeming to be that it might be a staging point for eventual belief in Catholicism.

This has gone on long enough that some kind of empirical test should be possible — has the attitude shift succeeded in welcoming more former Muslims into the Roman church?


229 posted on 09/08/2010 11:18:37 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: christianhomeschoolmommaof3

This panic and screaming in fear, with Americans wetting themselves in terror about what should be a relatively minor demonstration has changed my mind on the event, I now support it.

The sheer panic of cowardly Americans is something that is more important for us to confront than those 50 church members in Florida.


230 posted on 09/08/2010 11:23:35 AM PDT by ansel12
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To: HiTech RedNeck

I took a lot of their kissy poo stuff things done or said to protect medical missionaries in areas with Moslems present.


231 posted on 09/08/2010 11:24:47 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: ansel12
Right!!

Christians, hear from the Word of God:
2 Chronicles 20:15 (New King James Version)
15 And he said, “Listen, all you of Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem, and you, King Jehoshaphat! Thus says the LORD to you: ‘Do not be afraid nor dismayed because of this great multitude, for the battle is not yours, but God’s.

232 posted on 09/08/2010 11:25:53 AM PDT by suzyjaruki (What is coming next?)
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To: Wiz

I love this. A 50 person church gets this much airtime? This is really amazing. These folks should give up “churching” and go into “marketing.”


233 posted on 09/08/2010 11:33:00 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag (You are just jealous because the voices aren't talking to YOU!)
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla

Never heard that any Christians ever called The Jewish or Christian God allah, interesting..

Of course there is only one God, but the muslim god does not have the same nature, never knew any Christians ever called him allah, the muslim allah is not the same as the Christian allah then..how’s that?


234 posted on 09/08/2010 11:34:51 AM PDT by aeonspromise
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To: christianhomeschoolmommaof3
what about em ???

lets face it, the only reason they are 'with' us today, is for us to do some heavy liftin in their fight against muzzies of another stripe...

even muzzies in our own uniform have already gone all jihad on their supposed brothers...

235 posted on 09/08/2010 11:36:04 AM PDT by Gilbo_3 (Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force.Like fire,a dangerous servant & master. George Washington)
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To: Lurker; DCPatriot; Pyro7480; Tennessee Nana; JerseyRepub; christianhomeschoolmommaof3; ...
Lurker, here are the Points:If you would google the words

Pope Islam reciprocity

you would see about 50,000 headlines such as these:

Catholic-Islam Dialogue: Reciprocity the Key

Pope's New Approach to Christian-Muslim Relations

The Vatican Confronts Islam : Daniel Pipes

Pope: No Retreat From 'Reciprocity' Challenge to Islam

Address to the Ambassadors of Countries with a Muslim majority

Pope: "Respect and dialogue require reciprocity in all spheres"

Benedict was warned by the jihadis not to go to Turkey; he went.

He was threatened with assassination if he flew to Jordan, Israel, and the Palestinian territories: he flew without hesitation, spoke out clearly, and prayed with Christians and Jews.

Benedict was warned by organized jihadists that they would behead him if he baptized Magdi Allam: he baptized him at the Easter Vigil, the most solemn and public rite celebrated at St. Peter's in Rome, guaranteeing maximum coverage around the world.

He was warned not to challenge Muslim ambassadors about freedom of religion for Christians in their respective countries: he has done so every single time, courteously, firmly, and without equivocation.

And everything he does, he has good reason to assume, could be paid for in blood (Link).

If anyone has a right to be taken seriously, it is Pope Benedict.

That's my point.

236 posted on 09/08/2010 11:39:01 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("The first duty of intelligent men of our day is the restatement of the obvious. " - George Orwell)
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To: Servant of the Cross

“Your link also verifies that Pope Benedict XVI was quoting Byzantine emperor Manuel II Paleologus:

The passage originally appeared in the “Dialogue Held With A Certain Persian, the Worthy Mouterizes, in Anakara of Galatia[citation needed] written in 1391 as an expression of the views of the Byzantine emperor Manuel II Paleologus, one of the last Christian rulers before the Fall of Constantinople to the Muslim Ottoman Empire ...

Pope Benedict XVI made this statement clearly identifying its author as Paleologus:

But naturally the emperor also knew the instructions, developed later and recorded in the Qur’an, concerning holy war. Without descending to details, such as the difference in treatment accorded to those who have the “Book” and the “infidels,” he turns to his interlocutor somewhat brusquely with the central question on the relationship between religion and violence in general, in these words:

Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.

I also believe that Pope Benedict XVI chose this quote wisely.”

Sir Yes yes on both counts,that was my point.


237 posted on 09/08/2010 11:41:45 AM PDT by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
If anyone has a right to be taken seriously, it is Pope Benedict.
238 posted on 09/08/2010 11:59:55 AM PDT by ansel12
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To: chris37

I have no problem making a real stand against Islam. I have a problem with doing something that will change NOTHING and get people killed in the process.


239 posted on 09/08/2010 12:05:44 PM PDT by christianhomeschoolmommaof3
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To: ansel12

I am not at all scared. Using wisdom is not cowardice. I however am concerned for innocents in Muslims countries. If this demonstration was helpful in anyway you would be seeing a different response. It is however inflammatory and does nothing to actually stop Islam. It does however give them a platform, sympathy, and a cause.


240 posted on 09/08/2010 12:09:17 PM PDT by christianhomeschoolmommaof3
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