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Will the next pope continue the last pope’s consistent record of appeasing Islam?
The late Pope Francis had a long record of whitewashing Islamic jihad violence and making moral equivalence arguments in order to downplay jihad terror. Back in 2017, Ahmed al-Tayeb, the Grand Imam of Cairo’s al-Azhar, noticed the pope’s yeoman service for the Islamic cause and thanked him for his “defense of Islam against the accusation of violence and terrorism.”
Francis was not just a defender of Islam but also a defender of the Sharia death penalty for blasphemy. After Islamic jihadists in Jan. 2015 murdered the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists who had drawn Muhammad, Francis obliquely justified the murders by saying that “it is true that you must not react violently, but although we are good friends if [an aide] says a curse word against my mother, he can expect a punch, it’s normal. You can’t make a toy out of the religions of others. These people provoke and then (something can happen). In freedom of expression, there are limits.”
Pope Francis apparently believed that murdering people for violating Sharia blasphemy laws is “normal,” and wasn’t terrorism. “Christian terrorism does not exist, Jewish terrorism does not exist, and Muslim terrorism does not exist. They do not exist,” he said in a 2017 speech. “There are fundamentalist and violent individuals in all peoples and religions—and with intolerant generalizations they become stronger because they feed on hate and xenophobia.”
So there was no Islamic terrorism, but if you engage in “intolerant generalizations,” you could “expect a punch.” Pope Francis, like the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, apparently thought that the problem was not jihad terror, but non-Muslims talking about jihad terror; Muslims would be peaceful if non-Muslims would simply censor themselves and self-impose Sharia blasphemy restrictions regarding criticism of Islam.
Pope Francis also had no patience with those who discuss such matters, saying: “I don’t like to talk about Islamic violence, because every day, when I read the newspaper, I see violence.” He added that he often saw stories in newspapers about Italians being violent. “They are baptized Catholics,” he insisted. “They are violent Catholics.” He concluded: “I believe it’s not fair to identify Islam with violence. It’s not fair and it’s not true.”
Yet the pontiff’s comparison made no sense, for Italian Catholics who behaved violently were not acting in accord with the teachings of their religion, while the Qur’an and Islamic teaching contain numerous exhortations to violence.
But Pope Francis, defender of Islam, did not concern himself with such minutiae. Nor did he appear to be particularly concerned about the fact that all his false statements about the motivating ideology behind the massive Muslim persecution of Christians over the twelve years of his papacy only enabled and abetted that persecution, for if that ideology is not identified and confronted, it will continue to flourish.
In line with his willful ignorance regarding Islam, Pope Francis was a strong advocate of mass Muslim migration into the West. Reuters reported in Aug. 2024 that he “strongly decried the treatment of migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea to enter Europe.” The pope lamented: “There are those who work systematically and with every means to reject migrants. And this, when done with conscience and responsibility, is a grave sin.” The solution to this evil, he said, would be “global governance of migration based on justice, brotherhood and solidarity.” Yeah, that would fix everything.
This followed his May 2024 statement that “migration is something that makes a country grow.” He decried historical stereotypes about migrants: “They say that you Irish migrated and brought the whiskey, and that the Italians migrated and brought the mafia. Migrants sometimes suffer a lot. They suffer a lot.” He made it clear that he didn’t like any criticism of open borders: “To close the border and leave them there, that is madness.”
Back in April 2022, the pope claimed that opposition to mass migration was really all about racism: “It is true, refugees are subdivided. There’s first class, second class, skin color, [if] they come from a developed country [or] one that is not developed. We are racists, we are racists. And this is bad.”
Of course. What else could we possibly be but racists? The pope doesn’t seem to have considered the possibility that there might be reasons for opposing mass migration other than racism. He has consistently framed the acceptance of mass migration policies, with no regard for the cultural identity or integrity, much less the security, of the host nation, as a core aspect of the Christian commitment.
Will the new pope follow Pope Francis in these positions that lead to civilizational suicide, or chart a new path? If Europe is to survive as a home of free societies, the new pope must represent a sharp departure from Francis’ line.
I am not one hundred percent certain but I read online somewhere that Pope Francis was a supporter and believer of that blasphemous “liberation theology” that many Catholic clergy believed in and espoused back in the 1970s and 1980s. This belief in a nut she’ll was the idea of using thinly disguised communism as a substitute for the Catholic Doctrine. In other words, Marx was used a the authority figure that the poor followers in many embattled Central and South American countries instead of Jesus. The quote that many lefties like to b use when criticizing capitalism lby using the phrase, “Jesus was a socialist” started with these “liberation theology” fools.
You aren’t wrong. Anti-Pope Fwancis espoused that KGB shit from day one.
Jesus was not a socialist but the thrust of his message and his example was to renounce wealth and material possessions and give it all to the poor. To discount the importance of this life and the pursuit of wealth and happiness in this life in order to enter his kingdom in the afterlife.
If Jesus was not a socialist he certainly did not come to earth to pursue happiness and wealth on earth or to tell his followers to go and make a tone of money and enjoy it. Jesus was no champion of money or capitalism.
“The faintest familiarity with Scripture reminds people to reject reason, science and facts in favor of faith, the supernatural, and miracles, to believe that “love of money is the root of all evil,” that “a rich man cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven,” that “the meek shall inherit the Earth,” that self-sacrifice is morally “noble,” that self-esteem and pride are “sinful,” that “it’s better to give than to receive,” that we must serve neighbors and become our “brother’s keeper” while “turning the other cheek” to one’s enemies so they might strike us repeatedly, with impunity. It’s clear that right-wing conservatives embrace such anti-life, anti-capitalist notions, while simultaneously claiming the welfare state shouldn’t be so big or taxes so onerous. As such the religious right is unavoidably hypocritical. In contrast, the religious left is at least consistent, albeit in a perverse manner, especially when it concedes openly that its case for the welfare state rests on Scripture.” – Richard M. Salsman. “Holy Scripture and the Welfare State”
Dear THX 1138:
As usual, your comments concerning the teachings of Jesus invite refutation because they are so wrong and off the mark.
I will be brief;
Concerning ‘the rich man’ at Matthew 19, this man asked Jesus: “. . . what good deed must I do to have eternal life?”
Jesus, being God in the flesh, knew this man’s heart and thus knew THIS man needed the following answer: (In addition to the commandments of God, as stated in the Old Testament) “If you want to be perfect, go and sell all your possessions and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven, Then come, follow me.”
This particular “rich man” needed to redirect his passion for money to a passion for Jesus in order to “have eternal life.”
As for the ignorant and simplistic critique of Holy Scripture that you have attributed to Professor, Richard M. Salesman, I can say the following with confidence.
1. Salesman is no Bible scholar, and 2. Salesman’s criticism is dead wrong on all points.
I have confidence for two reasons.
1. Salesman has described his field of expertise as follows: “I research, publish, teach and lecture on political economy in Duke’s PPE Program. I specialize in public finance.”
2. I, myself, am skeptical by nature and I have been studying God’s word for well over 40 years; thus, I know Salesman’s criticisms do not accurately reflect what the Bible teaches.
Kent
Dear Kent,
As an Objectivist I am committed to rational selfishness, making as much money as I can, and enjoying every penny that I earn, for my sake, not for the sake of Jesus, my neighbor, the stranger, or the foreigner.
If Jesus actually teaches rational self-interest, self-preservation, keeping and enjoying all the money you make, and pursuing your personal happiness on earth for your own sake, you’ll have to convince all your fellow Christians on the Left about that.
Because there is not a single Objectivist that is fighting for the redistribution of wealth but there are millions upon millions of American Catholics and Protestants who are doing just that, in the name of Jesus Christ.
George W. Bush’s “faith-based initiatives” are just one example.
So leave them alone to pursue their beliefs. How they hurting you? If they want to give their money away why is that your business?
You are such a worthless busy body. The nice thing is that no one appears to be listening to your endless ranting. I can only imagine what kind of totalitarian world your kind would create.
your opening sentence gives you away as ignorant of the scripture. Jesus never had any issue with anyone’s personal wealth. What he DID have issue with was, and remains today, when one man has vast wealth and refuses to care for the widow and orphan. Read the account He told of Lazarus and the rich man.
Because when I want to find out the state of faith V. “reason, science and facts” (who’s reason science and facts?), I always refer to and read the musings of Richard M. Salsman. (Who?)
PICK A POPE THE DEMOCRATS HATE.
So who dose the Vatican serve Christ or Allah? probably they serve Satan instead
The satanic catholic fake church teaches they worship the fake god allah of satanic islam… CCC#841
Serve Christ?
Nope…
1) They have dead saints to pray to…
2) Mary as their intercessor…
3) The Poop as the vicar of christ on earth…
4) Purgatory prison to serve away lack of Good Deed sentences…
5) Indulgences… to earn/buy their good deeds…
The Protestant churches are just as involved in destroying America as is the Catholic church. Lutheran Services sponsored Ilhan Omar and her family to come to the USA using tax-payer dollars.
“The roots of America’s welfare state lie in the Populist-Progressive Era of the late 19th century and early 20th century, especially with the Protestant social gospel movement, which held that Christian ethics and “social justice” should drive public policy, including wealth redistribution, trust-busting, graduated tax rates to punish the rich, cradle-to-grave handouts, and missionary-style imperialistic ventures abroad to spread the faith and make the world “safe for democracy.” – Richard M. Salsman. “Holy Scripture and the Welfare State”
Not Catholic, but have been to five Catholic Weddings and two Funerals so that makes me as Catholic as the recently departed one seemed to be! Hopefully the next one will actually be HUMAN!
The next one might be a legitimate believing Catholic.
Some Catholics think he was too Human. Personally, I like a more Human, less Dogmatic Pope.
He was like the pope during ww11, a socialist pope
My understanding is that the Vatican has high walls and tight security. Seems a comfortable place to ignore Jihad and promote the cultural chaos of open borders. Seems his understanding of good and evil in man was a tad inconsistent and incredibly naive.
This is already happening:
“The solution to this evil, he said, would be “global governance of migration based on justice, brotherhood and solidarity.” Yeah, that would fix everything.“
The UN started an organisation called IOM.int which has the strategic objective to facilitate REGULAR mass migration.
“Will the Pope be another ‘Pope of Islam’?”
“Will the next Bear ‘take an Isl💩m in the woods’?”
Joe the Sniffer Biden will check the produce if it is wigged.
“Will the Next Pope Be Another ‘Pope of Islam’?”
Yes, of course but the Council of Cardinals will choose somebody more discreet than Anti-Pope Francis the heretic. They don’t want another extremely unpopular Pope. They’ll choose an open borders piece of shit who won’t blather on about open borders, how America supposedly sucks, and Trump, Trump Trump is Hitler. They want a guy from an African country but they’re going to have to dig hard to find a Marxist one from that continent. And they want one who doesn’t openly contravene Catholic tenets. Anti-Pope Fwancis contravened so may catechisms he might as well have been a lunatic in some cave flagellating himself while he danced around naked and sang Mel Brooks songs.
It’s guaranteed the next Pope will be a leftist because all the Vatican Cardinals are leftists. And those morons probably wonder why all the pews in Western Europe are empty every Sunday.
The only thing I can easily predict is that the next Pope will be a heretical piece of shit, but less obvious about it than Anti-Pope Fwancis.
THE NEXT POPE IS LIKELY TO BE CARDINAL PETER ERDO FROM HUNGARY FOR A HOST OF GOOD REASONS
Can we do an DOGE background check on the next Pope? What exactly did he/she post back in 2003 and we want all emails before they’re deleted
Channeling Hitchens….. “No child’s behind left” is not part of the liturgy.
And strangely, I haven’t seen the Calvinists on Fox News lately. Weird.
Red Francis installed many “wayward Cardinals to make it easier to get a Red Francis clone on his death. This kind of behavior mirrors what Obama Clinton and Biden did in appointing so many activist leftist judges. We are finding out now just how truly stupid and horrible they are. These aren’t judges. They are idiot comintern stooges. Espeically the two that just got arrested in Wisconsin.
Any way to resurrect JP 2nd from the Dead?
Actually one crooked judge is in Wisconsin and the other is in New Mexico. Both D-Bag states, of course. They committed federal crimes though, which is why Patel’s FBI arrested them and AG Bondi’s DOJ will prosecute their asses. It’s not like either of those D-Bag states would do the right thing.
But the gist of your comment is spot on. The Cardinals are sure to select another left-wing heretic but one who’s less overt about it. They’ll pick a discreet chameleon.
Thanks for the clarification Jeff. But in the final analysis it doesn’t make a difference which state these P.O.S, “judges” are from. A leftist is a leftist. No brain, no sense, just idiot narrative.
“WASN’T IT IRONIC that Godless Democrat Vampires, who always cringed at the sight of a Crucifix, loved this pOPE?”
WHY? Because he preached Liberation Theology and from the Gospel of Marx!
AMAZING to see the MSM Vampires, get a thrill up their legs when covering the funeral. “He was a man of the people.” WELL, EXCEPT his own Flock when he said nothing to the Muslims for their slaughtering of Christians. He was outraged when an Israeli missile killed two Christians in Gaza. I don’t recall him condemning OCT. 7 and the Muslim barbarism!
THE NEW POPE MUST BE A STRICT ENFORCER FOR THE LAWS OF GOD and use his voice to go after Muslims and even try to convert them to follow The Son of God and not a false prophet, pedophile, whose followers will KILL so they can be rewarded with virgins in Heaven!
As an RC, I’m just hoping the next Pope will withdraw its diplomatic recognition of a Zionist Apartheid Jewish State and recognize Palestine as an independent State. Only when the Zionist State enters into negotiations with Palestine should the Vatican enter into negotiations with the Jews.
Are you a lunatic or a liar? I figure you’re both.
Jewish hatred…
It’s apparent…
Israel should not recognize the Vatican.
Israel should boot the Cardinal of Jerusalem.
Israel should not allow any Catholic pilgrimages.
Israel should not enforce the law so as to stop Muslim desecration of Catholic shrines.
You are a liar and certainly not an RC, a righteous Christian.
The acquisition of indigeneity by Palestinian Arabs within <100 years of migrating to the Holy Land from Egypt and Syria is one of Islam's few miracles.
The Vatican itself is Satanic Temple the UN Building a Devils Playground the Pope was a phony just like all the rest of them have been
I have no faith…that the cardinals will choose a conservative pope.
Obviously charity through government competes with the charity private citizens do of their own free will. One is socialist, the other is loving your neighbor and not depending on the government to do your “loving” for you
There is room for both in our countries, our religions, and our world. Regardless of our country and religion, we are all God’s children, living in our little green and blue World. Bless you all, your children, and your communities. .