Posted on 04/29/2002 6:58:13 PM PDT by a_Turk
Uh, Larry, the "individuals" on the list are the religious leaders and the heads of countrys. Do you want quotes from the Koran too? I got plenty about how Allah commands his followers to subjugate their neighbors with war and torture the captives. But I will spare you, for I suspect you are sitting at your keyboard with your fingers in your ears yelling "neiner, neiner, neiner, I can't hear you". Wake up Larry, it is your head on the chopping block.
You are absolutely correct. Arinze WILL be the next Pope.
And how many nations that were the world powers of their day were completely destroyed after attacking Jerusalem? Remember Edom, Moab, Philistines, Cush, the Assyrians the Babylonians, the Egyptians? (not the arabs calling themselves Egyptians there now...) This is just the short list. Every one was destroyed, every single one. Even the Roman Empire collapsed after Jerusalem. Yep, been there, done that, forgot to buy the t-shirt apparently...
Try all you want to make most Muslims hate Americans as much as they hate Jews. It won't work. In fact, pushing too much is counterproductive. Americans are tolerate but do get fed up after a while when outsiders mess in our affairs.
Where we differ Larry, is that you take comfort in that, and I don't. I guess I have a more catholic view of this. No man is an island. We must resist evil where ever it exists, to the extent we reasonably can. It is what gives our life a larger moral meaning.
Perhaps we really should move the Ecumenical Patriarchate to that tract of land outside Washington, D.C.
Regarding your misguided hope for Cardinal Arinze's ascendancy to the seat of Peter, I will pray the Holy Ghost will intervene to the contrary. Arinze's vatican 2 blather with heathens should be only for the sake of redeeming their souls. Rather, he walks in the religiously stumbling footsteps of a pretender who while on his trip to India mocked the religion he says he represents by publicly permitting a Brahman red dot placed on his forehead - all in an ongoing attempt to embrace the suicidal Trojan Horse flying under the banner of that cardinal abomination called "INCLUSION".
John 10:30 "I and my Father are one."
John 15:23 "He that hateth me hateth my Father also".
Mat 12:30 "He that is not with me is against me"
"And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. - Mark 16:15 -16
I contend the likes of Cardinal Arinze would deny the instruction God has given by substituting a rational born in hell - attempting to equate the false gods of the world with the Trinity. A blasphemy arguing adoration of animal and other false gods not unlike our adoration of Jesus Christ and the Blessed Virgin.
Mat 12:37 "For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned".
They already do.
I think you're right. And wasn't it the cooperation of Muslim countries a few years ago that helped turn back the wildest "reproductive rights" contingent in the U.N.?
In brief, I would offer that your view reads as both very sincere as well as devoted to Jesus Christ, but I believe you are misreading of the Cardinal's efforts and the Holy Father's geopolitical understanding -- an understanding which sees the need of religious people of whatever faith to have a relationship so together they can fight the atheistic juggernaut of the UN and EU.
what it truly is. A heresyIf terrorists pass judgement upon you, then why should you not judge me?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.