Sunday - February 05, 2006
The Pope is all for the Religion of "Peace Through Beheadings"
I read this morning that the Pope has spoken out
against the political cartoons depicting Mohammed as a violent man. It makes
one wonder why he would do this. Is it because he thinks it isn't polite to
point out the elephant in the room? Is it because he doesn't want anyone in
turn to point out the recent past of his own church, supporting murderers taking
over Spain and Germany in the last century (especially with his ties to Hitler)?
Is it because he is against freedom of speech? No, it's for much more sinister
reasons.
The United States has made a huge error, one it
can still correct, by not recognizing that the War on Terror is actually a
relgious war. Our enemies may have temporary secular allies such as Iraqi
former regime elements, but as we have seen, this alliance of convenience is
very fragile, with frequent large scale battles between our enemy factions in
Iraq. Many times while I was in Iraq, our troops witnessed battles, complete
with mortar attacks and roadblocks between these factions. Our long term
enemies, may use these former regimists, but the former regimists have their own
agenda that often gets in their way. These Islamic fanatics are so intent on
instituting Sharia law and their special brand of Islam that they don't even
recognize the common sense of not fighting with their
allies.
I can understand, even though I
don't agree with, the decision by the US to not recognize the religious nature
of the war. In the short term it may help mollify some of the enemy and deter
them from being more actively murderous. We have enough on our plate with the
first two muslim nations we've overthrown. The others will have to wait a bit
longer. There is no need to get them riled up before we destroy their
theocracies in turn.
What I don't
understand is the Vatican. They have no army. They have no power projection
they're trying to economize. In theory, the leader of all Catholics should have
nothing but morality as his goal. Yet, what has been the consistent stance of
that monster John Paul and now his successor, the Hitler youth? They have
spoken up for the murderers. They have defended the claim of blood thirsty
beheaders that no one should mock their
religion.
So why would they do such a
thing?
It's because, deep down,
fundamentally, they think that a religion should have a protected status to
control its followers as much as it can. The Pope may not agree with the
details of Islam, such as the Koran, the sanctity of Mohammed and the claimed
pedigree from Abrahams's other son, Ismail. And the Pope eats pork. But
otherwise, the Pope has never relinquished the claim of power to control the
lives and minds of its followers. Fundamentally, the Popes have defended the
most outrageous claims of Islam because they want to reserve the right to make
similar claims themselves.
The Catholic
church is in decline in most of western civilization, probably at its lowest
since the New World was discovered. The United States has to import priests
from south and central America. European post modern progressivism is driving
most of Germany and France towards secularism. Recently its defense of
pederasty has been driving people away. This is a matter for concern, but the
church doesn't want to reform itself, it wants to regain its former blind
following.
The church has a continuing
history of supporting totalitarianism against freedom. In almost every war
worth noting, the papists have supported the immoral side. In Spain they
supported the fascists against the legitimate government because the fascists
supported state sponsored religions and the republicans wanted a version of
separation of church and state. In WWII, they were somewhat neutral when there
was never a clearer time to come out against an evil regime. In poor and
oppressed nations, to this day, they support the oppressors so long as the
oppressors give lip service, and money, to the church.
Now again, when there is a moral stand
to take, the Pope doesn't condemn Islam and its bloody thirst for hacking off
innocent heads. He defends it against legitimate ideological ridicule. I guess
in his mind the world can only benefit from Islam reconstituted as a power.
Perhaps he believes the world will divide again into Christendom and the
Sultanate. The way things are going, that would be a step up for the
church.
The president of the United
States said that anyone not with us in this war on Terror is against us. The
Pope, by supporting the suppression of free speech and supporting the murderers
of Islam has once again shown that he is not with
us.
We can only be thankful that
American Catholics have traditionally been disinclined to follow the Pope's
leadership. They may say nice things about him, but in the end, American
Catholics ignore the funny foreigner in the pointy hat -- as we all
should.
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