What do you think about the Pope's new declarations and views towards Islam?

Answer 1

Always remember that the Catholic Venetians played a role in allowing the Ottomans to sack Constantinople in 1453. The Catholic church was complicit in allowing Orthodox Byzantium to fall to the Turks. The Catholics wanted the Orthodox to crawl back and reunify with them, but the Orthodox remained independent as the sultans started playing the ethnic card with the Greeks, Bulgarians, Albanians and others. To this day, the Catholics want the Orthodox to submit to them and the pope will leverage Islam against a dehellenized Orthodox faith as the weapon which will do the trick. Even Athens is finally having a mosque built for Muslims to demonstrate how far the secular government has progressed in dealing with Islam.

The EU will admit Turkey over the Pope's dead body. I think the Muslims remain upset that they have never defeated Catholicism compared to their success against Orthodoxy. Ratzinger has been compared to the Anti-Christ in many circles and such comments against Islam are really meant as jabs against Orthodoxy. Orthodoxy no longer has a state sponsor because all of those states from the former Ottoman Empire are now secular.

I am against hellenization of the Greek Orthodox faith in America.

Answer 2

I think he might be one of the keys to forcing Muslims to disclose what they are honestly about.

Don’t you see the irony in Muslims being able to desecrate a Christian Temple in Jerusalem by spreading feces on images of Christ? But a Christian leader (the Pope) can’t remind people of what 14th century Byzantine emperor Manuel Paleolous II said about the profit Mohammad several hundred years ago. It wasn’t even the Popes own words or thought. He was repeating what Paleolous II supposedly said. . What’s with the hypersensitivity anyway?

The Muslims can dance in the streets; shout and yell; raise their fists all they want to but I do not believe the Pope owes Muslims an apology for anything.

Some have contended the terrorists are a form of radical Islam and a small minority of the faith. They say the large majority of Muslims are a peaceful people. I am beginning to wonder about these claims when I see the reported millions in the streets protesting what the Pope repeated.

Two faced or what? Is Islam a peaceful religion or a violence based religion? By what I am seeing and hearing, I would have to conclude the latter.

Answer 3

I am not really sure what was said. I do know I read this:

In his speech at the University of Regensburg, Benedict quoted criticism of Islam and the Prophet Mohammad by 14th century Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaeologus, who wrote that everything Mohammad brought was evil and inhuman, "such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached".

Benedict repeatedly quoted Manuel's argument that spreading the faith through violence is unreasonable, adding: "Violence is incompatible with the nature of God and the nature of the soul."

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It seems to me that he was trying to say in a very clear point, that God does not condone violence, and by not saying so himself (and quoting this guy above) he avoided specifically saying that no god who is God would condone murder.

Frankly, I think it's time the greatest and oldest and probably truest religion on this planet took a stance and said what needed to be said.

There have been many wrongdoings in all religion, in all politics, in all humanity...no one said any pope or priest was God.

But if I were the Pope I would have said a lot more than he did.

Answer 4

What the pope said is that the lesser jihad is the muslims own personal struggle to protect themselves, there property and belief system

Now once this is done, the greater jihad for muslims is to conquer the world by the sword, and make Islam the global world faith, and kill all the jews and christians.

Answer 5

What the Pope stated develop into not his perspectives, mearly a reality that develop into made years in the past. i do not imagine quoting someone is incorrect, in spite of the undeniable fact that, with all that is going on contained in the international at present, perhaphs not the whole time to be reciting statements about Islam. i fairly do not imagine he needs to assert hes sorry....

Answer 6

What he said was taken from an historical document.....nothing new....he just had the backbone to call a spade a spade. We are are living in a time when everything we say should be politically correct, but not necessarily true or correct. I think he did a good thing. Christ said, "I come not to bring peace, but the sword."

Answer 7

Somehow I think you are off the record. I think he quoted some old views from a previous pope..

Answer 8

Here is a link to the English translation of the Pope's controversial speech: http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/speeches/2006/september/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20060912_university-regensburg_en.html

With love in Christ.

Answer 9

Being a major idiot, he made some pretty good points (and is now back peddling from them due to Muslim protests).. What a wuzz!

Answer 10

Forgiveness is God's command !!