All Comments (9)

A lot of this dialogue by the Pope doesn't have to do with the US or even the war on terror, but with the fleeing of Christians from a half dozen Middle Eastern countries where they have lived for millenum.
Over one million Christian OFW in Saudi can not worship freely.

Garyd:

You can say with certainty that a state of war exists between all religions that missionary and all others that do likewise for the simple reason their goals are to take over the world and become the only religion/government. Nazis are a good example of a non-missionary type religion. So you can leave the missionary part out in all the cases so far. Someone wrote a book I've never read, "All Gods are Gods of War" that pretty much sums things up with the title alone.

Islam is a "copycat" religion. Muhammad, (probably a fictional person) "met God, (God's representative) too" just like Moses. Explain why one would copycat anything and you got the answer to what religion is all about which is to make the founder of the religion the most important person that ever lived Joseph Smith, John Wesley, Martin Luther, Constantine the great, Saul become Paul...

Garyd:

I find your comment to be vulgar and insulting. What wrong has a goat ever done to you?

Garyd:

I find your comment to be vulgar and inflsulting. What wrong has a goat ever done to you?

TO MARTIN MARTY:

You wrote, "Then new quaking followed, when he baptized journalist Magdi Allam at Easter Vigil. Allam could not have picked a worse moment", actually Allam did not pick the moment, in the Catholic Church under normal circumstances all adult converts are received into the Catholic Church at the Easter Vigil all around the world as far as I know, at least that is how it usually works in the United States, as far as I know.

Sincerely, Thomas Paul Moses Baum.

I am amazed by how many professors of religion, etc., entirely misunderstand statements.

Why is Prof. Marty shocked to hear that he and the Pope have different understandings of what a "church" is? That's part of what makes their religions different, right? Prof. Marty's definition is more inclusive than the Pope's because his church has ventured, over the course of centuries, further and further afield from the Pope's.

Are there so many Christians and Muslims that the rest of the world must accept their power, the power of their leaders? Is Tibet a big place, a lot of people? They seem to be able to make a lot of noise everywhere except Beijing.

Why do governments, not all but many including, (led by) the US government fear the possible collapse of world religions? (See official documents from declassified UFO files.)

You and other non Catholics must not believe the Bible is God's word. Need I quote from it to show you where the pope gets his authority to condemn all non Catholics to hell? Did Jesus establish a church or an unlimited number of churches? Heretics shall smolder away for all eternity in hell.

Lucifer just loves the chaos. "Go to your churches, temples, synagogues, mosques and pray" to Lucifer. Be sure to call him God. Lucifer dances with glee when the little children parrot, "One nation under God." Lucifer loves being called God real good but what about God?

Was that God in the burning bush? All things hinge on that being God. The future of your immortal soul hangs on that one scene. Better be sure. But you have a mind closed by faith, no ears left with which to listen.

Those who already know can't be taught. Those who cannot be taught are retarded. A closed mind is Lucifer's playground. World religion are in those minds closed by religion selling tickets to hell like hell was Disneyland.

Good luck making peace with yourselves.

These nit picking coments from someone as respected as Martin Marty only serve to keep our eyes from the real purpose of Christian belief.I could cae less(as a Catholic ) who the Pope accepts into the faith.I am happy to see a controversial person who comes to Christiam belief.I do not go to church to show adoration to the Pope but to celebrate the Salvation brought to me by Jesus Christ in his person as the Son of God.

One could truthfully state that Roman Catholicism and Islam have existed in a state of War ever since they first became aware of each others' existence.

Neither has over much to recommend it in the grand scheme of things and when Christ returns the overwhelming Majority of both Groups will find themselves standing with the Goats for what little good they have done they did to glorify themselves rather than God.