Is the Pope slamming Islam for what the Vatican and Christia

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Is the Pope slamming Islam for what the Vatican and Christianity used to do?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 71981.html

Compare the tactics of Islam to those of Christianity when it ushered in the Dark Ages and Inquisition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR02cia ... =PLCBF574D

Are those tactics and ways not the same and does that not say that all idol worshipping religions, especially Christianity and Islam are evil?

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DL

I have noticed something very interesting about a group of homegrown fanatical evangelical Christians that I studied for a while, due to their psyches being so alien to my own. I was curious what made them the way they were. I wondered if I could alter their thinking any.

This group, who mostly come from the same husband and wife, were abused as children, mentally and physically. They came from a fundamentally religiously extreme household.

Now they do not abuse people physically, at least not outside their own families. I have no idea what they do inside, but they appear to be non violent, for the most part, now, as far as reports from defectors. Psychologically, they are still there abusing into the generations and are very obsessive and fixated on certain topics.

They brandish insults like weapons all in the name of religion. Basically, they use religion as an excuse to verbally and emotionally abuse people. I can understand why the Pope issued that statement. People can use religion as an excuse to be abusive if they so choose, and, sadly, in the US, the constitution protects them.

And, if Jesus really was like these people, and they are the way they are because of what they see in the Bible, then I can safely say I can never be a Christian. I don't know what he was really like. I certainly hope he wasn't as obnoxiously fanatical but it does seem like someone involved in the New Testament was, because he is portrayed as a fanatic in certain passages, casting out anyone who isn't as fanatical as him. It's open to interpretation, like everything, unless you can directly ask the person responsible.

To be fair, it's not clear Jesus was the fanatic, just look at the lives of some of the earliest martyrs and Saints. What spurred them, I have no idea. Was it Jesus? Judging from their behavior, there was some fanaticism. No one knows for sure if Jesus was an actual fanatic, or just those writing about him. He had to have some religious drive just to get those people existing in that culture to listen, most likely. Just how much was there we can only guess since he never wrote anything down.

It does make you wonder, what is it really about? Why couldn't the man Jesus have someone pen his words? Why is it the followers know so much and were able to pen but Jesus never did? Maybe he did but the leaders deemed him heretical and destroyed them? Who knows. It is one of Christianity's great mysteries. A religious leader yet he never had someone write anything about him or for him. It does seem like something of his was destroyed after he was crucified. Maybe there is much more to this than meets the eye and the security forces of the day entered homes and burned manuscripts and belongings in an attempt to break up a cult they deemed as a threat?

You're slamming the Pope for saying almost the opposite of what he is actually saying.

He is saying "dont slam Islam as a whole, slam extremism in any religion".


The two western responses to the recent terrorism pretty much break down that way: either saying "All is Islam is bad", or saying "just extreme Islam is bad". And the Pope is one of the latter (more restrained) type of respondents.

In the US, we don't see moderate Christians doing more to censor or counsel the fanatical evangelicals who harangue them quite often.

And the irony here is, some of these same groups harangue the Pope yet the Catholics never respond to it. These groups can be very abusive just not physically yet the moderates remain silent. It's very hypocritical to denounce Islam yet remain silent to abuse among your own ranks.

The Pope hasn't considered, the Imams and government publicly denouncing the fanatics would simply only make them a target of the violence. It is really all it would do. And I suspect this is why the Catholic Bishops and Cardinals never respond to the Evangelicals who hurl abuse at them. They simply want it to go away and not put themselves in the path of the abuse.

There are millions of religious fanatics out there who only want to force their way on absolutely everyone, they want to use government as their vessel. What can you do about it?