Nice try
“The Koran was a gift to him from the delegation. Islamic peoples are not casual in the giving of gifts. It represents the giver. They knew perfectly well that the Pope was a Catholic Christian”
“Pope John Paul the Great kissed the Koran because he wanted to show the world that all Religions ultimately serve the one God; we may know him by different names and to greater or lesser degrees - there is but one God. We are the ones mist blessed to know him uniquely in Christ Jesus, but we must not rubbish other faiths because the don’t know him. “And there are other sheep of mine, not of this flock....””
http://romancatholicblog.typepad.com/roman_catholic_blog/2006/05/why_did_pope_jo.html
“Jesuit Father Samir Khalil Samir, professor of Islamic Studies at the Université St. Joseph in Beirut and the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome, seconded Allen’s assessment. He also noted that while Pope John Paul was given to making gestures intended to show respect for Muslims – such as kissing the Quran or visiting a mosque – he was not always sensitive to the way people perceived those gestures.
“The pope kissing the Quran was a shock for many Christians in the Middle East. They thought it meant that the Quran is divine, which is of course not what he meant at all,” said Father Samir.”
http://www.catholic.org/international/international_story.php?id=20410
You church affirms he kissed the Koran.. Islamic websites at the time affirmed he kissed the koran..
Nice try to confuse and obfuscate though
When you say,
I do believe you miss the target. From what I can see, it was not dangus himself whom is trying to do any such thing.
I can't find the scolding comment that was made to him, by one of the Catholic contributors here, but it was in response to that, that he started this thread. That much is clear enough to me.
Unfortunately I cannot find the comment I am here referring to.
We'll get to the bottom of it eventually I hope, but it sure would help if that scold whom made the comment to dangus (on another thread) which lead to this thread being initiated by dangus, would stand up, be counted, and publicly admit that they were wrong.
THEN all this silly stuff would just "go away".