"Recalling a scene from the famous 11th-century poem "The Song of Roland", in which Christians in Spain threatened Muslims "to choose between baptism or death", Pope Francis recently said, "We must beware of fundamentalist groups; each (religion) has their own. Fundamentalism is a plague and all religions have some fundamentalist first cousin".
Except.
Um.
I musta missed the part where Christians in North and South America and Europe and in places like the Philippines and other Asian nations with large Christian populations are, you know, murdering Muslims, blowing up buildings and engaging in terrorist activity that is almost exclusively a Muslim issue.
Not only is Islam at war with itself (Sunni v. Shia), it also is at war with Judaism and Christianity.
True, there were bloody sectarian fights between Catholics and Protestants in places like Ireland and Scotland but that was more an exception than anything.
The Commie Pope's use of The Song of Rolland is bizarre because the song was used to depict - inaccurately - events at the Battle of Ronceveaux Pass (Roncesvalles) in Carolingian France in the 8th century during the reign of Charlemagne. A battle where the Franks, the poem's plot claims, are battling the Muslims in Spain who are invaders s on their lands.
'Baptism or death' in this context doesn't seem so bad now, right?
The song was also used during the First Crusade and it's here he attempts to draw a parallel - along with the Spanish rightfully expelling the Moors from their land - with modern Christian fundamentalism.
Except modern Christian fundamentalism doesn't quite have the same vicious violence of modern Islam.
His comments brings back memories of Obama also inserting a facile and superficial 'yeh but the Crusades' part of history.
Nice little deceit employed by the Pope. Which may as well since the Song of Roland was mostly myth because it was actually the Basques Charlemagne was fighting in order to prevent their entry in France from the Pyrenees. So he wasn't even fighting Muslims.
It just goes to show how much Christianity has evolved if people have to go this far back into history. And when they settled on a story, the choose one rooted in mythology.
We're talking the Middle-Ages here. A dizzying period where romanticism and myth collided with a civilization in its infant stages of entering the modern era. It's, well, complicated. Which is why it's nauseating to listen to leftists speak of this period to score their cheap political points.
And even then, the Crusades were defensive in nature given that from the 9th century on Islam was on the march and seeking conquest in Europe.
Does the Pope actually believe Christians had no right to defend themselves and go out and recapture the Holy Land of Jerusalem? Does he expect us to accept Spain had no right to La Reconquista?
Has the Pope spoken out at the persecution and murders of Christians in Africa and Asia?
Truth is, the values - and liberal doctrines that grew from - of the Judeo-Christian religions and traditions are far more progressive and enlightened to Islam.
From the treatment of women and gays, to the concepts of rule of law, private property and liberty to liberal free thought and expression, is there no doubt Christianity has evolved and aged much better?
I'm Catholic and I don't accept this Pope's penchant for apologies and tiresome specious analogies to history.
Except.
Um.
I musta missed the part where Christians in North and South America and Europe and in places like the Philippines and other Asian nations with large Christian populations are, you know, murdering Muslims, blowing up buildings and engaging in terrorist activity that is almost exclusively a Muslim issue.
Not only is Islam at war with itself (Sunni v. Shia), it also is at war with Judaism and Christianity.
True, there were bloody sectarian fights between Catholics and Protestants in places like Ireland and Scotland but that was more an exception than anything.
The Commie Pope's use of The Song of Rolland is bizarre because the song was used to depict - inaccurately - events at the Battle of Ronceveaux Pass (Roncesvalles) in Carolingian France in the 8th century during the reign of Charlemagne. A battle where the Franks, the poem's plot claims, are battling the Muslims in Spain who are invaders s on their lands.
'Baptism or death' in this context doesn't seem so bad now, right?
The song was also used during the First Crusade and it's here he attempts to draw a parallel - along with the Spanish rightfully expelling the Moors from their land - with modern Christian fundamentalism.
Except modern Christian fundamentalism doesn't quite have the same vicious violence of modern Islam.
His comments brings back memories of Obama also inserting a facile and superficial 'yeh but the Crusades' part of history.
Nice little deceit employed by the Pope. Which may as well since the Song of Roland was mostly myth because it was actually the Basques Charlemagne was fighting in order to prevent their entry in France from the Pyrenees. So he wasn't even fighting Muslims.
It just goes to show how much Christianity has evolved if people have to go this far back into history. And when they settled on a story, the choose one rooted in mythology.
We're talking the Middle-Ages here. A dizzying period where romanticism and myth collided with a civilization in its infant stages of entering the modern era. It's, well, complicated. Which is why it's nauseating to listen to leftists speak of this period to score their cheap political points.
And even then, the Crusades were defensive in nature given that from the 9th century on Islam was on the march and seeking conquest in Europe.
Does the Pope actually believe Christians had no right to defend themselves and go out and recapture the Holy Land of Jerusalem? Does he expect us to accept Spain had no right to La Reconquista?
Has the Pope spoken out at the persecution and murders of Christians in Africa and Asia?
Truth is, the values - and liberal doctrines that grew from - of the Judeo-Christian religions and traditions are far more progressive and enlightened to Islam.
From the treatment of women and gays, to the concepts of rule of law, private property and liberty to liberal free thought and expression, is there no doubt Christianity has evolved and aged much better?
I'm Catholic and I don't accept this Pope's penchant for apologies and tiresome specious analogies to history.
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