Pope, Islam and Catholics

That's Not What He Said, Ya'll.

The pope did not apologize fer readin' from the 14th century texts on Islam. He said he was sorry his remarks offended adherehts of Islam -that an offense was not his intention.

It's real important to git us a bit o' background on this. First thang is that Pope Benedict was a'speakin' to academics--not the public per se. His intent was to note that part of what riles up Islamic warmongers is the Western Enlightenment era's insistence that there is no place for faith in the modern world. That, in fact, faith is laughable.

The West pushed over faith on account of the Protestant dictum of sola fide which means "faith alone." The Protest-ants followed Luther into this idea because they was real miffed wif' Rome (some good reasons fer that) but as usual wif' rebels, they threw baby out with the bath....the Authority of the Church to teach and apply scripture ter modern situations is crucial.

Let's face it, the bible shure doan talk about cloning, so whose ter say iffin' it is moral in eyes of God? Why, the Church of course, since (if youse a believer in Jesus) the Lord done said "on this Rock I build my Church " and the Rock was Peter (Petros) to whom he was speaking at that point. Of course later Christ tole' ole Pete, "feed my sheep" and other instructions that make clear the intent of Christ to leave an authority behind. (Notice that Jesus did not say "on this book I build my Church.") All this is by way of saying that the Pope is speakin' on behalf of the Church and that the Church --unlike Islam--is of both Faith and Reason...one without the t'other is a prescription fer totalitarianism.


The pope also noted that, if the West shoved over Faith, Islam ( per 14th cent text as he quoted it) insisted on shovin' aside reason--That icon of the Enlightenment. No wonder they's a huge clash.

This is one cause of Islam's lack of modern progress, this disavowal of the importance of Reason. Finally--to these Catholic academics--Pope Benedict said that the Catholic Church teaches that BOTH faith and Reason are necessary: God gave us a brain in order to discern and discover God's own order in the world. These we learn and know. But our faith is in the ONE God as Source of all, Creator of All; He is beyond our reasoning capacity. Reason exhausts the limits of human capabilities and must move into Faith.

It is not that we put faith in thangs unexplainable or unknowable, but faith is in the ONE who is the source of what we do know by reason, as well as the source of what we do not know because it is beyond human capacity to understand, though we accept them "on faith" --the Incarnation, the Trinity, Resurrection. Reason and Faith are NOT in conflict, since they came from same source--Faith jes' completes what Reason points to. (For ya''ll who's scholarly, check out the encyclical Faith and Reason[ Fides et ratio] at www.vatican.va.) Find yoreself a smart Christian an' they can present faith to ya' in such a way as ya’ can see that it is reasonable--not in conflict with reason.

Easy, huh?

Ok...Fast Forwad now to yesterday (9.25.06) At his summer residence the Pope done tole' them Islamic clerics he invited over to hear how Rome was not thumbing nose at dialogue, that he did mean to say that Islam was fallin' a tad short--after all his predecessor John Paul II had more'n 60+ meetin's wif' islamic "leaders" and ya'll see what that got...exactly nuthin'. So this Pope, not carin' about oil, or nukes, figured he ain't gotten nuthin' ter lose but his haid.
So the Pope called for "reciprocity"--that we permit freedom of religion in the West--an' you Mohammadans is permitted to build yore mosques, so let Christians in Muslim lands build they churches. Seems reasonable, doan it?

What we'uns gotta choke down is that Islam doan like "reason" cause they thinks it chains up Allah. That any rules of rational thought puts Allah in some man-made box: They thinks Allah doan have ter follow his own laws of physics, and that such laws and rules of reality are subject to change at the whim of Allah in case he gits a wild hair to make sun rise in west.

No wonder them poor folks is havin' tough time wif progress--they doan respect the very well ordered laws of nature.

Now the key here is to recall that Islam is a heresy--it is syncretism based on Arian heresy and heretical Jewish teachin's that was loose around Mecca in 700s...whar a great many Arians and Jews was livin'. This is why that Byzantine Emperor fella in the 14th century said they's nothin' new in Islam but what is evil in men.
True evil doan like nothin' true. This is inclusive of freedom of conscience. See, this is why iffin' ya's muslim and wanna convert to sompin'else, they whack yore haid wif' a scimitar. No place for freedom of thought in Islam. Mss. Nina Shea over at Center for Religious Freedom done made that point--iffin' local muslim groups don't bow to jihadi's they is persecuted as if they was Christians or Jews. The Palestinian gubmint uses extortion to rob Christians in Nazareth and Bethlehem of they houses.

Evil seeks utter domination--and this is the mission of Islam TO DOMINATE THE WORLD (in the name of Allah). This domination is by the sword, not by faith or reason, cause there ain't much to have faith in, and it ain't remotely reasonable.


This is what the Pope was referring to--that our ideas of God shape the way we think about the most important thangs--like our purpose in this world. Jews and Christians know God as a FATHER, a lover of Mankind. A God who made order, and who set an ordered world afore all of us to learn ter live in and even to embellish in creative ways. God delights in our discovery of His order of the universe. He keeps it orderly so we can figger it out, and so thangs keep workin’ in a manner that we can work with it.

But now, contemporary Islam ain't like that on account of Allah not being a "father" (a blasphemy to muslims as it "reduces" Allah by imputin' to him some lowly human attribute such as fatherhood) Allah doan love mankind, jes' terrorizes him. This Allah is nothin' but will--and his will is to be done --and the methods doan matter. If world conquest (jihad) is the will of Allah, then murder and terror used to achieve world conquest is sanctioned by Allah as good--jes' as long as it is done for Allah's purpose. This is plainly monstrous.

The idea is pointed out by a Muslim la-di-dah, Magdi Allam, who talked with the Italian paper, Corriere della Sera. He said "Muslims, especially the so-called moderates, never stand up ... against the true and perpetual profaners of Islam, the Islamic terrorists who massacre Muslims themselves in the name of God?"

Yeah.

As if to prove the point, jihadis all over the world done yelped fer Pope Benedicts haid...they want him gigged, burned, beheaded and fed to dogs. They shot a poor nun who was only nursing sick, poor muslims, they demonstrated in the streets and mosques--they demonstrated alright--they demonstrated the Pope's point about the un-reasonableness of evil.

Next some liberal sycophants (sickophants) dhimmonstrated they "solidariity" with the "insulted muslims". They shoulda saved their sulfurous breath--even the lib leaning WAPO (Washington Post) noted that freedom of speech means letting folks quote from texts, fer Pete's sake. No matter yore thoughts on religion, iffin' youse agnostic or whatever, ya kin see that freedom of speech and Islam jes' doan go together.

Ask yore self this:What is more insultin', somebody sayin' youse unreasonable or somebody calling for yore haid on a pike and burning down your churches, shootin' nuns and flying planes into buildings?

After ratchetin' up the security at St. Peter's, the Pope said sompin' ter answer all those who think he "apologized" :
"I trust that after the initial reaction, my words at the University of Regensburg can constitute an impulse and encouragement toward positive, even self-critical dialogue both among religions and between modern reason and Christian faith."

Here's what I kin shure tell'ya...this Pope is very savvy--he put out fer discussion jes' what he dang well meant to put out there--fer us all ter examine. This is historical cause for one thang, Syrian and Chaldean (Iraqi) Christians is hideously persecuted, and so is Egyptians and Iranians and Lebanese...see? This year at Easter, in the jihadis struck Egyptian Copts (ancient Christian group) with knives and killed 'em right in public in Alexandria Egypt. And the gubmint will not let Copts rebuild their burned down churches. Martyrdom. Does ya'll see???

Them Jihadists smell a victory real real soon...they see a purge of Christians and Jews from all the historic Christian lands and churches and shrines. Remember, afore they was any moslems on earth, they was Christian Churches and Jewish Synagogues in Baghdad, Medina, Mecca, Nineveh, Alexandria, Antioch, Ephesus...

Why, the Christians in Iran date from the evangelizing of St. Thomas the Apostle!! (India too.) When the last Christian body is sent to the garbage dump and not one Christian is left in the lands where the Apostles set up the early churches, there will be sorrow, But some will say, "so what" ? We need less religion on this earth. And “it is religion that causes wars.” (Yeah—Like Stalin? Lenin?)

Don't get smug too quick, ya'll who worship reason alone; they will next come fer yore shrines, yore material palaces of pleasure, yore techno-centers, fer yore universities, libraries and all that Modern Man worships.

Mayhap that Islam will persecute and execute all people of faith....and some agnostics and atheists will think good riddance. Well, let's see how dark and cold the world becomes when all that's left to fight it out is Islam, Communism/socialism, and the militant one-worlders.