Posted on 09/15/2006 7:40:18 AM PDT by Froufrou
Or was it a JOOOOOOOO?
It's always the Jooooooooos!!!!
I concur. Laura Ingrham has been discussing it all morning. I believe I mentioned it.
"Thank goodness the Catholics protected the Bible so that you have one to read."
ahh. Well then thank you for your library. The Gospels were not invented by the Catholics.
I hear that nonsense all of the time like somehow that absolves Catholicsm from the evils of interpretation it purveys.
It is not the responsibility of the Catholic clergy to tell me how to interpret the Bible.
I will not be spiritually subvervient to any man (who are sinners) as required by the Catholic church.
Men are too weak to have such authority.
Seek Christ for yourself. Let the Holy Spirit guide you in your studies of the Gospels and let His words speak to you as an individual and a saint, and a disciple, of Christ.
I have a copy of the book, yes it is outstanding.
How enraged are they? Are they doing violence, maybe cutting themselves and flogging.
Viva il Papa!
I'm glad he's been candid and well seen and heard!
"Thank you."
Your welcome.
The difference between Judaism, Christianity and Islam is as follows: Judaism speaks about national salvation - namely that at the end of the story, when the world becomes a better place, Israel will be in its own land, ruled by its own king and serving God. Christianity speaks about the idea that every single person in the world can be saved from his sins, while Islam speaks about ruling the world. I can quote here in Arabic, but there is no point in quoting Arabic, so let me quote a verse in English: ‘Allah sent Mohammed with the true religion so that it should rule over all the religions.’
The idea, then, is not that the whole world would will necessarily become Moslem at this time, but that the whole world would be subdued under the rule of Islam. That is the plan, in black-and-white, of the Iranian regime.
This is why [Iranian President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad seeks nuclear weapons. The faster we realize this the better.
600 years later,,,,,
SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE!
I would be truly surprised if every single one of those young men were not NOT also throughly trained in hand to hand and weapons qulaified with all kinds of Good Toys. There are probably 20 of them patrolling in plains-clothes, or nearby in full tactical gear, for every one carrying a halberd (and I sure wouldn't want to face a halberd in the hands of someone who knows how to use it)
Good insight. How is it that you are fluent in the language? Why is it that they cannot see their being the religion of hate? Did they agree with Hitler?
Let me get this straight... these Muslim "scholars and clerics" want Pope Benedict to apologize for what Manuel II was quoted as saying back in the 14th century? The Muslims should've taken it up with him at the time. Nonetheless, I admire Pope Benedict's comments. It's enough to make you want to turn Catholic. ;-D
Not even in a suit of armor!
Qaradawi is unhappy that the pope dare contradict his position on the use of violence As to what the pope said about Mohammed, he said nothing. He only quoted the emperor, implying of course that Muslims had resorted to such violence since the beginning, a historical truth that Muslims want us to forget.
But actually, I was being serious. Your analysis of the situation with regard to the two religions illuminates that there is another front in the WOT besides the military one. I see this as the Pope opening up that other front. The Pope, to me, is saying that, 'We (Muslims and Christians) need to have an "intellectual" battle regarding use of force in the name of religion. I, by this speech, have initiated the "intellectual battle", now "Bring it on!"
It will be even clearer that the Pope has launched this "intellectual battle" when the MSM begin to attack him for making the statement. You will see comments like, "Why did the Pope say this? It gained nothing. It will only infuriate people that we cannot afford to upset right now."
I cannot tell what exactly the muslims are upset about. Surely it cannot be the historically factual statements about how islam spread or Mohammed's injunctions in the koran to spread islam by violence.
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