tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18902745.post115868116044976949..comments2024-03-24T15:19:06.377-04:00Comments on The Continuum: Misty Battlefield at Dawn?Fr. Robert Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05892141425033196616noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18902745.post-1158771501222076992006-09-20T12:58:00.000-04:002006-09-20T12:58:00.000-04:00"Then the men of the city said unto Joash, Bring o..."Then the men of the city said unto Joash, Bring out thy son, that he may die: because he hath cast down the altar of Baal, and because he hath cut down the grove that was by it. And Joash said unto all that stood against him, Will ye plead for Baal? will ye save him? he that will plead for him, let him be put to death whilst it is yet morning: if he be a god, let him plead for himself, because one hath cast down his altar. Therefore on that day he called him Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal plead against him, because he hath thrown down his altar."<BR/>-Judges 6:30-32<BR/><BR/>Baal and Allah are both of them very weak gods who need people to kill in their defense.Fr. Robert Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05892141425033196616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18902745.post-1158729961745752492006-09-20T01:26:00.000-04:002006-09-20T01:26:00.000-04:00I had begun playing with the idea that the real vi...I had begun playing with the idea that the real villain in all of this was the liberal media, beating up the riots of a few ignorant Muslims to make Muslims as a whole look bad. But I was shocked out of this when my eyes fell again on an article reporting that President Musharraf was seeking to have the UN outlaw vilification of Islam, or some such, as a result of the Pope's lecture. Unfortunately, it's not just the ignorant rabble. It's leaders of nations--and ex-leaders (praise be to God for the 'ex') like Dr Mahathir. Rest assured, God (and I don't mean the Babylonian Moon God Allah) will win the war--that is his promise. But if this is just a battle, we'll have to be prepared to die and appear to lose it. I remember that somewhere C S Lewis wrote that the reason for being on God's side was not that it was the winning side but that it was on the right side. 'Fight with Odin and die' was the old Norseman's equivalent. May God give us all the courage and fortitude.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18902745.post-1158712588520925002006-09-19T20:36:00.000-04:002006-09-19T20:36:00.000-04:00Thank you, Albion, for posting that. I've liked t...Thank you, Albion, for posting that. I've liked this pope from the start, and my respect for him has increased. <BR/><BR/>Someone has to say it, even if only by quoting a Byzantine emperor. Though there are many fine people among the Moslems, Islam in itself, even in a 'moderate' form is intrinsically evil. It is a postchristian attempt to discredit Christianity and to keep mankind from salvation. I said some of this responding to the "Here we Go Again" post. It has been very successful in its campaign thus far, having wiped out the historic Church in North Africa and Nubia, and having hamstrung its operations throughout the Middle East. A 'holy book' containing deliberate distortion of Sacred history, an imitation Jesus and a false prophet superseding him, and an Allah whose characteristics are more like those of Isaiah 14:12-23 (long thought to refer to Satan) than like the God revealed in both Old and New Testaments -- this is what constitutes Islam, and its scriptures make it perfectly clear that force is justified to convert those who have not submitted. And such force is a way of life to this day in certain Muslim countries.<BR/><BR/>This may not be 'politically correct', but it needs to be said by those who believe the message of Christ to be the divinely appointed way of salvation.<BR/><BR/>edpoetreaderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11613032927883843078noreply@blogger.com