Posted on 02/27/2006 10:40:39 AM PST by topher
POPE SAYS TERRORISTS FACE GOD'S WRATH
Vatican, Feb. 27 (CWNews.com) - Terrorists who kill in the name of religious faith will receive a stern judgment from God, Pope Benedict XVI warned during a public audience on Sunday, February 26.
Responding to a new spate of religious violence in Iraq and in Nigeria, the Pope said: "God, the Creator and Father of all, will be severe in his judgment of those who shed their brothers' blood invoking His name."
With the season of lent approaching, the Pope suggested that Christians should fast and pray for an end to bloodshed, particularly in the nations where religious conflicts are now flaring.
The Pontiff referred first to the attacks on mosques in Iraq, in a conflict between Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims. These attacks, he said, "spread mourning, nourish hatred, and interfere with the already difficult job of reconstruction in that country."
He also noted the religious conflicts in Nigeria, where several days of confrontation between Christians and Muslims have caused many deaths and the destruction of several churches and mosques. Such violence deserves "firm condemnation" by all responsible religious leaders, he said.
Violence and bloodshed are not authentic products of religious faith, the Holy Father said. True faith, he said, produces "not destructive conflict, but the spirit of brotherhood and cooperation for the common good."
In the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic religions, God the Father is the Creator.
Thus what the Father has created, only the Father has a right to destroy (kill).
And, in all religions, human life is the most valuable of all life on earth - above the animals.
(Though many liberals think that slimy snails in California and Oregon are more important human life.)
Makes sense. I'd also like to see those who protest against landmines protest against terrorism.
Get children to write open letters to Al Qaeda care of their mouthpiece, Al Jazeera. Children are often the victims of middle eastern terrorist attacks. Beg them to stop.
This also goes for politicians who carry Bibles under their arms for photo ops and are corrupt in their daily lives. (X42!)
AND...need we forget those that USE God (pretending to be religious) only to be elected to office (Dem Senators/i.e. Kerry)
Many will be shakin' in their boots when good 'ol Judgment Day rolls around!
Not to pick too much of a nit, but the victims of landmines are sometimes also the victims of terrorism. It's not just the US laying them down as a military strategy.
Yep. That's going to stop them.
You blow yourself up to kill innocent Jews or anyone else and it’s a safe bet that there are NOT 72 virgins waiting for you on the other side…only the gates of hell.
I agree.
However remote control IEDs are detonated purely by choice. They don't care if children are playing in the street when the US rolls by in transports.
I keep hearing how the US should "pull out". Why don't the same protesters call for the the foreign born Islamonazis to also "pull out" of Iraq? They fight against the Iraqi military and police as well as fighting against the US military and contractors. They are invaders, not insurgents. They don't seek elected office in Iraq because they are not citizens.
Meh, I'm beginning to think Pope Pius had it right.
This Pope is a quiet one -- he does not burst into print often, and it's difficult to know him the same way we knew John Paul I (Luciani) and John Paul II (Wojtyla).
But so far, from what little he has said, I like the cut of his jib. He speaks sense.
We need to convert them all to Christians -- Problem solved
I am sure that warning will put a stop to the terrorists' activities
I imagine now the Muslims will riot because the Pope is presuming to tell them about God.
Even the minor moon god Allah is likely soom to lose patience with the more intransigent militants, as they are starting to give Allah and all of Islam a bad name.
There were two dieties in the revealed religion of Zoroastrianism, Ahura Mazda and Ahriman. Ahura Mazda represented "good" and Ahriman represented "evil". There was a struggle in the Mesopotamian region about the seventh century AD, and Ahriman won the souls of the region. The followers of Ahura Mazda fled to India, where they are still known as the "Parsi".
Ahura Mazda is poised to make the return to the lands once known as Persia. That means, Ahriman must be defeated.
I've never equated landmines and IEDs.
Or, the "virgins" are clones of Janet Reno and Hillary...
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