The pope has capitulated - a Kantian thought

Submitted by Ianus (Poland), Dec 3, 2006 at 12:50

Dear Jeff, you wrote :

> The pope has capitulated and made peace with islam.

I agree completely... And I pity the poor pope a little... He is so unrealistic. A kaffir can't capitulate to Moslems and expect to be left in peace. If he wants peace he can have it only on Moslem terms, i.e. as unconditional surrender to slavery.

> This was in line with his main mission which was to re-unite with the greek orthodox.

On what principles ? I find it outrageous that the pope promotes large scale missionary activities at the expense of the Orthodox Churches and at the same time keeps talking about oecumenical ideals. Death await any Christian trying to make conversions in the Muslim world and yet the pope expresses his profound respect for the "Abrahamic sister faith" !

Well, the Church which so far has not repealed (and apologized for) the excommunication of Luther or for that matter has not excommunicated Hitler yet , might seem the right object for a few Kantian thoughts .

> The catholic plan is not to stand for what is right, but rather to bring forth the worldwide laodicean church, a so called church of peace, so the son of perdition can ride to power on her back, imitate the true and living God with great signs and wonders, so that all men, rich, poor, free, bond, ....will pay homage to the beast...

Come out of her!

I my personal view the detente and rapprochement between the Vatican and Islam has just one profound cause - the common hatred of widespread atheism and religious indifference in the West . I could cite a number of statements of the late pope to corroborate my suspicion. To combat that common enemy no price seemed to be too high to the pope. He kissed the Quran, entered a mosque publically. He felt that there is a closer affinity between the two religions - hostile as they both historically and ideally has always been - than between religion and irreligiosity.

The new pope athough he sees the self-defeating consequences of the recent alliance with Islam is trapped by the old tradition and his irressolution . The infallibility dogma makes it impossible for him to reject openly the unreasonable views of his predecessor while his weak personality prevents him from taking on the inevitable struggle against the nightmare of Islam-dominated Europe.

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