Silence of the Shepherds

New Oxford Review ^ | July-August 2017 | New Oxford Review

[ebb tide]

Why is it that Catholic bishops seem to be plumping for Muslims? Why do they issue statements about Islam that are dishonest and misleading? Why do they appear to be so intent on protecting the image of Islam? If you’ve asked yourself these questions, you’re not alone. Given current events and the historical record of Islam’s aggressive campaigns against the Christian West, the rational thinker could be forgiven for believing that the leaders of the Christian world might just want to pay a bit more attention to contemporary anti-Christian violence — thousands of terror attacks, beheadings, stabbings, kidnappings, rapes, torching of churches and Christian-owned businesses — committed by Muslims, in the name of Islam.

[Telepathic Intruder]

"No one comes to the Father except through me."

"Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire."

Those politically incorrect words show Islam for what it is. As church leaders begin to bow to the world instead of God, you'll hear them less.

[9YearLurker]

Catholics aren’t alone. Of course, it fits great with their liberation theology, but the Episcopalians and plenty of other protestant sects have sold their souls to the “refugee” business.

[ZULU]

WHY Pope Benedict was removed.
He spoke out against Islamists. Powerful, evil forces are pushing this Islamophilia

“There is one man in particular who is well educated and who has clearly and effectively spoken out against Islam and Muslim terrorism, one well-respected man who has, on a number of occasions, clarified — accurately — the nature of historical Muslim-Christian conflicts and the difficulties Muslims pose for Christians, especially European Christians, in the 21st century. That man is Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. It is instructive to note, writes DeVille in his Herald column, that whereas “ISIS hates Pope Francis because it perceives him as theologically wishy-washy…they grudgingly respect Benedict XVI precisely for his strong and blunt talk at Regensburg.”

[ZULU]

The Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Methodists and the ELCA are also infiltrated by sodomizing Islamophiliacs.

[benldguy]

the Episcopalians and plenty of other protestant sects have sold their souls to the “refugee” business.

You forgot to mention Catholic Relief Services, which gets $150 Million per year to settle "Refugees."

[marshmallow]

Francis is right at the center of this problem. His unrestrained enthusiasm for unchecked Muslim immigration into Europe flies in the face of historical facts and is an insult to the men who died fighting the Islamic scourge in the Crusades, at Lepanto, at the gates of Vienna and on the Iberian peninsula during the Moorish occupation.

One of the strange characteristics of the period through which we're living, is that faithful Catholics now find themselves ostracized not only from the secular, hedonist world in which they live but also from their own Church by the constant vilification aimed in their direction by the Church's hierarchy regarding issues such as relations with Islam and Catholic moral teaching. The Church has always had problems with Islam and secularists but what's unique about the present time is that the Catholic hierarchy now makes it clear that the Church's main problems come not from the Church's historical enemies but from Catholics within who want nothing more than to preserve Catholic tradition in these areas. The worthless Francis is front and center of this mess with his continual barrage of insults aimed at those who oppose Islamic encroachment on Christianity's historical heartland.

Given Islam's history and its openly stated supremacist purpose, anyone who is not Islamophobic is either a cretin, an irreligious pagan, a naive dupe of political correctness or an uncritical devotee of modern social and electronic media.

[ebb tide]

Excellent post.

[kosciusko51]

If, by “Presbyterians”, you mean the PCUSA, then yes. Not all Presbyterian denominations have been infiltrated.

[ebb tide]

The Pope also said he "dreaded" hearing about the "Christian roots of Europe" because, to him, they take on "colonialist overtones" and he called on European nations to "integrate" Muslim migrants into the continent.

"This integration is all the more necessary today since, as a result of a selfish search for well-being, Europe is experiencing the grave problem of a declining birth rate," he stated. "A demographic emptiness is developing."

http://www.charismanews.com/opinion/57367-the-one-world-religion-cometh-pope-francis-warmly-welcomes-top-islamic-cleric-to-the-vatican

[ZULU]

Not all of these groups are infiltrated equally. But the Marxists take over the hierarchies and direct change from above. The masses of believers who are not Marxists, Sodomites, baby murders, etc. are driven put while the vermin invite in more of their kind and corrupt kids.

[kosciusko51]

The PCA and OPC, both conservative Presbyterian denominations, do not have this problem.