Just Gimme Some Truth

[poliphilo]

Silly old Pope.

Silly old Muslims.

Of course Islam has a history or violence. I don't know the Koran, but either that text about spreading the faith with the sword is in there or it's not. If it's in there I don't know what the beef is about.

But then most Muslims are as ignorant of the Koran as most Christians are ignorant of the Bible.

And if the Koran is violent, so is the Bible. And not only the Old Testament.

"Don't imagine that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword! " Who said that? Not Mohammed, but Jesus.  Matthew 10. 34.

Neither Christianity nor Islam is a religion of peace. Check  the record. Religion is a divisive force. Especially when it's montheistic. 

OK, secular ideologies are equally divisive. People like killing one another. Full stop.

So the Pope shouldn't have said what he said.  It was undiplomatic of him. It was arrogant, divisive, unhelpful,  partisan-

But it wasn't untrue. 

Comments

Silly old press

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

I blame the media.

The conversation between Manuel II Paleologus and the unnamed Persian scholar was probably the only part of the entire address they understood.

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/bavaria06/message9.htm

And speaking of "silly old": do we like the irony of "We are offended that the Pope has called Islam violent, so we're going to go firebomb a couple of Anglican and Orthodox churches"?

Re: Silly old press

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I had already seen the full text of the address. I'm afraid I found it unreadable. Verrrry dry.

The press, I suppose, could have chosen not to report it, but that's their job, isn't it?

As for the firebombing of the churches, I don't suppose the jihadi on the street distinguishes one Christian sect from another.

Re: Silly old press

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

I noticed that irony, too, Laura.