Islam has a clear mission, which it doesn’t try to hide, and its mission is to take over the world.

A world caliphate!

Sharia!

Europe is presently being conquered one step after another, and London, Paris, Munich and many other European citizens are starting to look like the Kasbah in Nablus.

So precisely at this time, the Pope’s words are very significant.

If that is the intent great! Islam represents the absolute hatred and intolerance that most religions have strived to overcome. Many have succeeded but Islam seems to reveal in a bloodlust worthy of being classified as a blood cult. (Any group of people who celibrtate killing thier children, the children of others, innocent bystanders, others of thier faith, dogs, cats, goldfish,…. maybe themselves if they have the courage are worthy of blood cult status) The scary thing about the pope is that Jesus stated do not shed blood over me. So then it becomes a matter of survival. For as a soldier I have no problem (actually would like to get rid of the cowards) fighting Muslims for freedoms sake, freedom of all religions not just mine.

I can’t claim to know the Pope’s intentions or those of those around him who are shrewd to say the least.

But the World Jewish Congress (WJC) recently said that the pontiff should be praised for ,

Unequivocally rejecting the argument that the Jewish people can be held responsible collectively and eternally for the death of Jesus”.

Worthy of note also is that Benedict, in the second volume of “Jesus of Nazareth”, analyzes the Gospel narrations of Jesus’ betrayal and execution to show that:

“He was himself a Jew and crucified by the Roman rulers”.

For many centuries, Jews suffered from brutal persecution and anti-Semitism because Christians held them collectively responsible for the killing of Jesus Christ even though:

All sinners, and thus humanity as a whole, obviously share the responsibility for the death of Christ.

“All sinners, and thus humanity as a whole, obviously share the responsibility for the death of Christ”.

I don’t know any Catholics but all Southern Baptists that I know would certainly agree with the above.

A handful of Jews at most were involved in the affair that led to the Jesus’s execution, yet the indictment was later served against all Jews through all generations.

And even worse, the broad generalization, and not the very charge of killing Jesus, is the essence of anti-Semitism!

When a gentile did a terrible thing, he faced justice on his own, but when a few Jews perhaps did something bad, then all Jews were blamed.

Ane there is no point in trying to prove that you were not involved, because the gentiles will tend to punish you for the sins of a few earlier Jews as well.

Does religion cause wars in the same way that alcohol causes inebriation and sunlight makes things grow?

If we wanted to test the alcohol/inebriation or sun/growth hypotheses scientifically, then how would we do it?

Quite simply, we’d remove the alcohol from whatever drinks we were serving and see if our clients still became inebriated.

And the same with the sun/growth theory; we’d remove the sunlight and see if things still grew.

But when it comes to war there is no need to carry out any kind of study because it’s already been done for us.

In the 20th century, we saw the most disastrous wars in history, both in Europe and in the Far East.

Tell me please, which of these were centered around religious disputes?

“Wars arise because of the changing relations of numerous variables—technological, psychic, social and intellectual. There is no single cause of war. Peace is an equilibrium among many forces. Change in any particular force, trend, movement or policy may at one time make for war, but under other conditions a similar change may make for peace. A state may at one time promote peace by armament, at another time by disarmament; at one time by insistence on its rights, at another time by a spirit of conciliation. To estimate the probability of war at any time involves, therefore, an appraisal of the effect of current changes upon the complex of intergroup relationships throughout the world”.

Quincy Wright, A Study of War, Abridged ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964).

Modern secular ideological movements are responsible for much greater and more indiscriminate violence than any religion ever was.

Maybe that’s because they mobilized greater powers than religion was able to do in the modern age, but the case still stands.

Consider if you will, Stalin or Mao!

Mao = 30 million deaths.

Stalin = 20 million deaths.

The Crusades?

There were nine crusades in all ending finally in 1272 A.D. and the estimate is that over those 200 years approximately 200,000 people died.

The Spanish Inquisition?

125,000 people were investigated by the Spanish Inquisition, of which 1.8% were executed.

2,250 people!

I rest my case …

Great!

I’d never seen the kind of comparisons that you quote and they put things into real perspective for me.

Thanks!