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This is so true and I'm glad you posted this. There are a couple of Muslim posters on this very site who believe "that Islam will one day revitalize Christianity in its moral decline". I paraphrase that but their intent is there. We need to be on our toes. They do not have good intentions toward us.

Considering the advance of Islam towards Vienna during the Reformation, allowing the Reformation to take hold, we need to watch the current Church crisis carefully, as it happening along with an increase in Islamic culture here. We already see an unofficial schism between many of the Bishops and the Magisterium. Let's pray history doesn't repeat over the next century or so.

Very good post. Belloc was certainly right on this one, in many ways. The only aspect he passed over was the fact that Islam, because it does not separate religious law and secular law, has a much more iron grip on its adherents than Christianity (which does separate God and Caesar) could ever have. That is, it controls every aspect of their lives, with the threat of external force.

That's appealing to people with an authoritarian bent, or people who simply don't want to be bothered thinking things out. I read recently that many Mexican Indians in Chiapas, who had converted to evangelical or Pentecostal sects (which are usually quite authoritarian), are now converting to Islam. The odd thing is that Islam is being spread by the radical left - the head of ETA (Basque terrorist org, active in Europe and LatAm) in Latin America has converted to Islam, and the Islamic "missionaries" in Mexico spread a strange blend of religion and Marxist economic/social thought. Mexico even expelled a few of them recently, because they were a little too obviously tied in with terrorists.

But Belloc is very right on the fact that Christianity is being seriously undermined by heresy, which certainly makes it much more vulnerable to the Islamic threat. And the Islamic threat is a very, very real one.