Posted on 11/30/2014 4:03:48 PM PST by FR_addict
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (Reuters) - Pope Francis said on Sunday that equating Islam with violence was wrong and called on Muslim leaders to issue a global condemnation of terrorism to help dispel the stereotype.
Francis, the leader of 1.2 billion Roman Catholics, told reporters aboard his plane returning from a visit to Turkey that he understood why Muslims were offended by many in the West who automatically equated their religion with terrorism.
Francis' predecessor, Benedict XVI, caused storms of protest throughout the Islamic world in 2006, when he made a speech that suggested to many Muslims that he believed Islam espoused violence. ...
No wonder there are Protestants that claim the Pope is the Antichrist! This will not help the catholic church
The papacy, not a specific Pope, unless the shoe fits.
Maybe I’m a coward too, but I’ll tell you what, I never kissed a Koran in my life.
Two men considering a religious vocation were having a conversation... "What is similar about the Jesuit and Dominican Orders? " the one asked. The second replied, "Well, they were both founded by Spaniards -- St. Dominic for the Dominicans, and St. Ignatius of Loyola for the Jesuits. They were also both founded to combat heresy -- the Dominicans to fight the Albigensians, and the Jesuits to fight the Protestants." "What is different about the Jesuit and Dominican Orders?" "Met any Albigensians lately?"
Well; figuratively, Peter Kassig did; and look where it got him!
And the Bible, in contrast .
“Has the Pope no history books? Does he not know the history of his own office?”
The pope is a Jesuit. They are probably the most educated of all the priests. He knows. He doesn’t care.
The second replied, "Well, they were both founded by Spaniards -- St. Dominic for the Dominicans, and St. Ignatius of Loyola for the Jesuits. They were also both founded to combat heresy -- the Dominicans to fight the Albigensians, and the Jesuits to fight the Protestants."
"What is different about the Jesuit and Dominican Orders?"
"Met any Albigensians lately?"
Hysterical.
Got any knee-slappers about Auschwitz?
That's what I can't figure out. If this is not a cult, explain to me why the leader was a pedophile. Comapare what Mohammed says to what Jesus said about the little children.
Compare what Jesus says when they started stoning the woman who had committed adultery to what Mohamed said. One is evil, one is good.
“If the Pope has actually read the Koran and still calls allah the Christian’s God, God help him.”
Jesuits are very educated, so I can't believe he hasn't read it. It is wilful disregard to God's word.
While it is true that not all who care called Muslims advocate religious violence in fighting the West, the Qur'an and Hadith and their founder certainly provide support, while what has been missed is that,
Pope equates Muslim extremists with Christian fundamentalists:
The Argentine pope, who has been trying to foster cooperation with moderate Islam in order to work for peace and protect Christians in the Middle East, said it was wrong for anyone to react to terrorism by being "enraged" against Islam.
"You just can’t say that, just as you can’t say that all Christians are fundamentalists. We have our share of them (fundamentalists). All religions have these little groups," he said. -http://news.yahoo.com/pope-visits-iconic-religious-sites-istanbul-073647316.html
That’s a good site. Astonishing to me how Muslims use parts of the Bible and then tell us it is corrupt. Truth must have been difficult for Muhammad so he created a religion to suit his lifestyle.
Praise God it helped. I think that as Muhammad was illiterate and among people largely illiterate in Scripture, and as he was dependent on their often skewed versions of Christian teaching (thus his conclusion at one point that the Trinity was God, Jesus and Mary), that He actually believed - at first at least - that he was in corrective conformity with Scripture, or most of it, thus the appeal to go to the people of the Book.
Later the absurd assertion that the Bible was radically altered had to be made up to explain the extensive contradictions. Absurd because there is zero mss evidence for the Quranic contradictions, and which would require almost a complete rewritting of the NT and substantiation changes to the old.
And if Rome had the will and power to do so then it did a very poor job, as it would not have been hard to make simple changes or additions such as showing believers kneeing before statutes, and praying to angels and departed saints in Heaven, and or NT pastors being given the same distinctive title as Hebrew priests, and constantly officiating over the Lord's supper as a sacrifice for sins, and means of obtaining spiritual life, and or the whole church looking to Peter as its supreme exalted head in Rome, and infants being baptized, etc.
Let's see...
Nope; but THIS one might work for ya.
A Jewish couple has a son who is a holy terror. When he gets to be of age, he's kicked out of every school they put him in. Finally desperate, the father goes to the Rabbi for advice and the Rabbi says put him in the Catholic school. Shocked, the father asks if the Rabbi is sure. "Yes" is the reply, so the father takes him to the nuns and leaves. An hour goes by, then two hours, lunch time and finally at three the son comes in says "Good afternoon Papa, Good afternoon Mama," goes to the table and starts on his homework. The father is amazed and finally ask why he stayed in school all day and why he is behaving so well. His son looks up and says "Papa when you left, the Mother Superior told me that they did not allow rowdy boys, then she took me to my room. Papa they mean business! They've got a Jew nailed on a Cross in every room!"
Does a Muslim have to behead him before he understands?
I noticed that too, but forgot to point it out. I should have put it in my first post. You are right, this was very upsetting. Yes, there are some people that call themselves Christian fundamentalists that are violent, but they are not real Christian fundamentalists since they are not following Jesus’ commands. You wonder about a Pope who equates a Christian fundamentalist with a Muslim extremist. Who does he really represent?
I thought it was funny. Thanks for sharing.
“Does a Muslim have to behead him before he understands?”
Evidently. John Paul was shot by a Muslim (although they claim his religion had nothing to do with the shooting), then John Paul kisses the Koran.
Indeed. Jesus was a fundamentalist. Safe to say that most of the regular Prot posters on the RF here would (and should) ID as fundamentalist, as meaning holding Scripture to be the supreme transcendent standard for faith and morals as the wholly inspired and accurate Word of God.
In contrast to the liberal revisionism, such as seen for decades in many of the commentary teachings in the RC NAB Bibles, that the modern fundamentalist evangelical (used to be basically the same) movement originally arose to combat.
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