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. ...
“Francis ... understood why Muslims were offended by many in the West who automatically equated their religion with terrorism”
KMA, Pope. Your predecessor, Pope John Paul II, stood strongly against the evil of communism. WTH are YOU doing for the cause of freedom?
I’ve been saying that, and revelation is clear. I think a lot of Catholics will leave and become Christian then, but it’s a sore topic for a lot of people.
Sounds like the definition of a Jesuit, which Pope Francis is.
If you read the article, it appears that he is trying to be all things to all people, condemning terrorism on the one hand but on the other saying the mooselimb leaders ought to renounce terror and that it’s wrong to equate islam with terror.
He is speaking nonsense and would be well advised to either send an army to slaughter these animals like his predeccessors did or shut the hell up.
Agree wholeheartedly.
Well when they are storming the Vatican, just tell yourself that they are just overly-enthusiastic tourists .
This Pope is an idiot, in case no one noticed yet.
Listening to him babble is as productive as listening to a sea shell. There is no intelligence rattling around in there.
This Pope is turning out to be a real winner. I’m surprised he hasn’t converted to Islam yet.
I give it about a 95 percent correlation with violence.
This guy either has led a very, very sheltered life, or he has a screw loose.
This Pope is a retread Che-style South American Liberation theologist.
Sometimes it is more apparent - this is such a time.
PS I suspect his Boss is not amused.
His Holiness is sadly very very very very very wrong. When pigs fly, Islam will be peaceful.
Woe unto them who call evil good, or something like that.
The Pope is an enemy of human civilization.
You and me both!
If you are the leader of a religion - ANY religion - isn’t your only responsibility to that which you believe, and your only real concern with any other religion seeking conversion?
Has John Hagee had any comments on this Pope?
The Pope didn’t finish his sentence. Let me help:
...because, if you do, some muslim will kill you.
Do you think that any of those three denounced all Muslims?
LOL!
I will presume that the Pope is just trying to be the consummate politician, and thinking that you will catch more flies with honey, rather than trying to bash them with a 2x4.
Nonetheless, obfuscating the Truth helps no one. Not those being persecuted by the evil and violent religion of islam, nor the muslims themselves. It would not hurt to state the facts: Islam bares no resemblance to a God inspired religion, however it bares signs of having been inspired by Satan: their prophet admits that he was once fooled by Satan because he was wrong 'once' (and the real Bible tells us never to believe a prophet who delivers a false prophecy); it encourages its believers to kill; it has a 1400 year history and legacy of leaving death, mayhem, and destruction in its wake. Given that Satan hates people -- I'd say that Islam IS Satan's religion. Prayers to the people afflicted by it, and prayers for those that have been duped, or cowed, into falling it.
1,400 years of history contradicts that.
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